The pundits and TV talkers have missed the Big Thing that’s happening in the country.  Everyone’s talking about the vote for change in the Iowa caucuses, but what they don’t seem to understand is that this is generational.  This is Kennedy all over again — maybe more so.  The alphabet generations have watched with increasing disgust as the Bush administration has destroyed the environment, the economy, the middle class, the dollar, and trust in government.  And now the younger half of the country is talking back.  They’re fed up with white bread politics, inauthenticity, and the stupidity that the administration has marketed as toughness.  They want change.  They want Change. 

That’s why some of them are attracted to Huckabee’s ironic humor.  But more of them are attracted to Obama’s low-key authenticity. 

They want a planet they can live on safely, they want health care in case they ever get sick, and they want to work for something worthwhile. 

There’s no way that Obama can give them all that, but if he can even slow down the environmental destruction this country is wreaking, take some steps toward universal health care, and — oh yeah — end the war in Iraq, he’ll have done enough.

Carter was a president who made being president look hard.  He was mired in the details and too smart for his own good.  During the hostage crisis, he started learning Farsi, for heaven’s sake. 

Now we have Bush, who makes being president look dangerous.  We can’t afford to have another idiot in charge for another 8 years.  We can’t afford the damage to the earth, to the country, to our place in the world, to our economy.  Let’s hope the gen-x-y-and z-ers get out and vote in November.  It’s time for a Change.