The following piece was produced through OffTheBus, a citizen journalism project hosted at the Huffington Post and launched in partnership with NewAss...

The following piece was produced through OffTheBus, a citizen journalism project hosted at the Huffington Post and launched in partnership with NewAss...

After Obama's Sept.7 speech in San Francisco, I met with three students from Humboldt State University who had driven the six hours down to hear their man.

There are two ways to take this comparison between the Obama grassroots movement and first-century Christian evangelism: depending on your point of view, the earlier movement illuminates the later as either falling far short or completely doable. And isn't it bizarre, to use Bruce's adjective, that so many people, even skeptical, inquiring writers like me, find themselves speaking of Barack Obama in religious terms?

Hillary Clinton is the mistress of debate, once again.