The Obama appeal: he's post-racist, but also post-American.(Barack Obama)(Cover story) From: National Review | Date: February 11, 2008| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2008 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

AS Republicans watched the recent Democratic debates, the mountainous scale of the problems they face glowered down on them. They were already intimidated by the steepness of the first peak--Mount Change. Amid-January Gallup poll showed that only 17 percent of Americans want to continue with President George W. Bush's policies against a staggering 79 percent who want to change them. All the candidates support "change," of course, but the voters seem to interpret the word in a strongly anti-Republican sense.

The problem only gets worse when they are asked to break down this ...

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