Analyze This writes:

“The Democrats – not to mention America – need a mixed-race spokesperson who can connect to both urban blacks and rural whites, who has the credibility to challenge the status quo on issues ranging from misogynistic rap to unfair school funding.”

This is, to borrow a phrase from C. S. Lewis, the politics of the stable, i.e., bloodlines.

Cf. John Buchan, via Wrichard:

“How small and frail seemed the life in that cottage, as contrasted with the rich pulsing world of the woods and hills and their serene continuance. But it was they that were the shadows in God’s sight. The immortal thing was the broken human heart that could say in its frailty that its Redeemer liveth.”

Sen. Obama and the UCC are basically post-Christian, moving beyond and improving upon the historically outmoded Jesus. (Jody Bottum in last month’s ‘First Things’ has a good essay on the death of mainline protestantism.) The message of the post-Christians is always the same: “We’re here with the government, and we’re going to help you. You need not have a broken heart, and your Redeemer liveth in the assistance that all of us will give to those in need.”