Boy, the internets seem slow today.

So I’m at the parents’ abode, attempting to fix the virus-hijacked computer, and my mother the winger says:

Did you see Obama on Fox News Sunday?

I hadn’t, and in fact I wasn’t too keen on Obama going on Fox in the first place. Fox’s whole goal in life is to stick a shiv in the Democratic Party; why legitimize that?

But Obama, perhaps figuring differenly, might have decided that Fox represents a demographic that might, just might, vote for him. If they knew something about him.

And that had been my mother the winger’s mantra - what do we really know about Obama? His past is kind of shady, isn’t it?

But her tone, today, was changed. She was impressed - both that Obama went on Fox, and by what he had to say.

“It was a nice interview,” she said.

And now as well, she’s begun to feel sympathy for Obama - based entirely on the Wright business of the past few days. “Did you hear what that Rev. Wright said?” she asked. “I watched Obama’s press conference, and I think he did the right thing.”

None of this means she’s going to vote for Obama, though she still doesn’t like McCain. But what it does mean is that the events of the past few days - the Wright business and Obama’s response; his decision to go on Fox - has created an opening for him, with some people at least who wouldn’t even have considered voting for him before. Now they would consider it.

And it’s a start.