Can a Liberal be a Unifier?

Today's NY Times has a front page headline: "Obama's Test: Can a Liberal be a Unifier?" The meme of the article is that liberals are so far out of the mainstream that they can't possibly be unifiers. Of course, nice comfortable conservatives like George W. Bush were welcomed as unifiers by the Times back in 2000. Isn't the "liberal bias" in our main stream media wonderful?

And, of course, then there's McCain. The press is always dumping on him, aren't they? Dumping heaps of praise, that is.