A Change Has Come !

The face of politics in America has been changing for
about the last twenty years but more recently it's
been quite dramatic. My take on this is that people
are listening more to what a candidate has to say
and then judging them more for the actions they've
taken both in the past and present. The people are
looking for politicians that mirror not only their beliefs
but also have a deep understanding of their feelings
and struggles.
Yes the average white american today is struggling to
make ends meet and to achieve what is now the elusive
american dream. So today the color of a politician does
not matter as much as how he's able to relate to the
common folk. So check out the article below, then
weigh in on the rapidily changing color of politics in
america.


Early in Deval Patrick's run for governor, when few Massachusetts voters had heard of the maverick candidate with the odd first name, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama stopped by Cambridge for a class reunion at Harvard Law School.
Obama extolled the virtues of Patrick, a fellow Harvard Law School alum who, like Obama, faced better known and better financed opponents.

"He recognized that there was something very special about Deval and there were similarities in their experience," said Cassandra Butts, an Obama classmate who attended the reunion. "He wanted to give Deval the chances that he didn't have early on in his Senate race."
As Obama campaigns for president and Patrick works to shake off a rocky start as governor, observers are seeing in the two old friends the new face of black political leadership — figures as comfortable in the boardroom as on the picket line who can appeal to large swathes of white voters. Both candidates share similar life stories, rising from modest means with the help of family and education.

For Obama, it meant Columbia University before Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. For Patrick, who grew up in the shadow of the Robert Taylor Homes housing project in Chicago, it meant Milton Academy before Harvard University and Harvard Law.
They also share a political language ringing with themes of hope, new beginnings, and citizen-friendly government. At times they seem to be reading off the same script.
"They've moved beyond the rhetoric of the civil rights generation," said David Gergen, a former White House aide now teaching at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

"They accept the nobility of that generation ... but they believe there are new solutions," he said. "We are in a new age where these new black politicians are not just trying to appeal to a broad base of voters, but they are succeeding."





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