Why Obama's Message Resonates with Millions

By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. Posted September 9, 2008.

Obama delivers the same message Democrats always rely on. So why does
it sound like a clarion call this time around?

On the campaign trail with Barack Obama, four days before the
Democratic convention. Another teeming high school gym in another
halfway-to-somewhere town, decorated with still more banners
proclaiming the heroic exploits of the Local Sports Team, in this case
the football studs of Oscar Smith High in Chesapeake, Virginia.

In the audience are the same characters you see everywhere on the
campaign trail: the bare-armed cheerleaders congregating near the
bleachers, the sullen-faced union workers dutifully decked out in
matching...