Politics: The media have anointed Sen. Barack Obama the next great thing, our best hope for the presidency — other than Hillary Clinton, of course. But beyond the publicity, there's not much there. While Oprah and the big thinkers at the Huffington Post and Daily Kos go on about the junior senator from Illinois, others point out that less than two years into his first term as a U.S. officeholder, Obama doesn't have much to show. No legislative triumphs that offer a glimpse into how he would lead, no defining efforts of statecraft that reveal the core of his character....