Rich: Obama & Huckabee signal the end of Bushamerica

[Doctor_J]

and a bridge away from the politics of fear.

"They don’t run from Americans who are not in their club. Mr. Obama had no problem winning over a conclave of white Christian conservatives at Rick Warren’s megachurch in Orange County, Calif., even though he insisted on the necessity of condoms in fighting AIDS. Unlike the top-tier candidates in the G.O.P. presidential race, or the “compassionate conservative” president who refused for years to meet with the N.A.A.C.P., Mr. Huckabee showed up last fall for the PBS debate at the historically black Morgan State University and aced it.

The “they” who did not see the cultural power of these men, of course, includes not just the insular establishments of both their parties but the equally cloistered echo chamber of our political journalism’s status quo. It would take a whole column to list all the much-repeated Beltway story lines that collapsed on Thursday night. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/opinion/06rich.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Bitwit1234]

1. Added an extra word there didn't you

Huckabee and obama signal the end of AMERICA.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Huckabee's win signaled nothing, except that evangelicals like him.

He won't even get a bounce in NH. Stupid article.

[insanad]

3. We, THE PEOPLE are finally being heard. n/t