It may well be the sound of ICE "breaking", as Governor Bill Richardson endorses Barack Obama's Presidential candidacy, especially timed after the Rev. Wright "hit" and "rebound".
As the GOP slime tactics were perfected over the past 40-50-60 years (depending on whether you start with Nixon's POTUS runs or his first Senate campaign) a large portion of the Democratic Party concluded that the only way to "fight" against the slime was to adopt similar tactics ("fight Fire with Fire", so to speak)
along comes a younger candidate, imbued with the sensibility of a new generation whose whole lives have been conducted during the escalating political slime wars (even as the culture grew more tolerant on social issues, though more militant on foreign policies) and are rightly revolted by it. and he argues that perhaps it would be better for all concerned if such "Fire" were fought with "Water".
so far it seems, that somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of the american electorate are already on board with such a "new kind of politics" with perhaps an equal amount only waiting to be convinced that it can really work before they too jump on.
Richardson may be correct in his "once in a lifetime" assertion. and after what i've seen in my life, my conclusion is to "give it a try" (as it is damn near impossible to imagine that it could fail so badly as to be worse than what we've already known)
