MB Civic

By Harold Meyerson | Saturday, December 8, 2007 | The Washington Post

“…Barack Obama, by virtue of his age, his outsider status, his faith, his against-the-political-system rhetoric, his race and his very identity, is the first credible candidate who promises to move the nation beyond the cultural-political wars of the ’60s….Obama is a candidate who transcends our 40-year conflict over cultural identity — if not absolutely, at least by contrast with such figures as Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton — and perhaps even enables us to leap that greatest of American rifts, the one between white and black. Obama’s identity…could free us from our crippling identity politics….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120701776_pf.html