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Bottom-up politics is one thing, however. Bottom-up government, another. When Barack Obama became the nominee of the national Democratic establishment, the candidate of hope ran into political reality: His party's canons of governing are the opposite of change.

In a week of media coverage filled with metaphors of makeup products on farm animals, sex education for kindergartner's and journalists going against the basic tenants of Broadcast News through Cut and Paste editing…

The brick wall I'm running into with Obama is a question of how is change going to come with the same players that brought us into this disastrous dance?

As we sit on the door step of history I am compelled by an unimaginable force to reflect back on everything that has transpired in this election season and to also take a deeper look into how this force of "change" is shaping the 2008 election season

After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.