David Axelrod tells Howard Kurtz what makes Barack Obama so extraordinarily normal: "The most extraordinary thing about him, maybe the most surprising, is how normal he is. ... He'll read Foreign Policy magazine, a treatise on economic policy and Sports Illustrated." Now, I'm pretty sure only one of those publications counts as "normal" reading material. And it isn't the "economic treatise." Also: How can someone be "extraordinary" and "normal" at the same time? Then again, when you are the one we have been waiting for, anything's possible. ...