What felt good was not merely the improbable and historic political triumph of an African-American candidate carrying a state with a black population of under 3 percent. It was the palpable sense that our history was turning a page whether or not Mr. Obama or his doppelgänger in improbability, Mike Huckabee, end up in the White House. We could allow ourselves a big what-if: What if we could have an election that was not a referendum on either the Clinton or Bush presidencies? For the first time, we found ourselves on that long-awaited bridge to the 21st century, the one that was blown up in the ninth month of the new millennium’s maiden year. Link
I'm feeling it. And I didn't expect to. I'm going to go with it until it's clear I'm delusional. I think that Rich in the referenced article is spot on in his evaluation of Huckabee and of the "establishment's" (conservative and liberal) inability to "get" him. Great line: “People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the guy that laid them off,” [Huckabee] told Mr. Leno, in a nifty reminder of Mr. Romney’s corporate history as a Bush-style, Harvard-minted M.B.A."
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