Obama, Huckabee tout change

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Republican former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee Sunday touted their candidacies for U.S. president as opportunities for change.

Obama, speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," said his idea of change is not only in governmental policies but in leadership.

"And what right now the American people are desperate for is a president that they can trust, who's going to promote accountability and transparency in our government, who is going to take a new approach on things like foreign policy, talking not just to our friends but also to our enemies," Obama said. "And that's the kind of leadership I'm providing, and that's why we're doing so well in Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina and, I think, ultimately across the country."

Also on the program, Huckabee said he is "out to change the Republican Party."

"It needs changing," he said. "It needs to be inclusive of all those people across America for whom this party should stand, and it's not just the people in Wall Street, it's the people on Main Street."