How is it that
a youngish first-term senator with so many disadvantages—a slight
resume, a foreign-sounding name, an exotic background, a thoroughly
liberal voting record, and a skin color unlike any previous
president—has come so far? The answer, writes Steve Chapman, lies
in Barack Obama's message.
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