Our Morning Roundup

Obama is great for just being Obama, says Marc Fisher. "Win or lose," the senator from Illinois has changed the way Americans view race, he writes in his most recent column. "It's one thing to believe in a picture we'd like to be true -- a society moving toward a colorblind ideal -- and something entirely different to live each day with a personification of that ideal." And which generation has advanced this new way of thinking? Not today's youth, but the youth of yesteryear. That's right: Boomers! They always get credit for everything.

While the District hopes to stop handguns from coming in, Mayor Ray Nagin from New Orleans is ...

Logic schmogic. Maybe Roger Clemens and his former trainer are both telling the truth (check out the second photo), even though they are saying diametrically opposite things.

Do not slip while running in Adams Morgan. In some places, it's a long way down.