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October 19, 2008 Leave a Comment
One of these days I’m going to get back to blogging regularly. As I think about it, I should have been blogging throughout the election season (my preference is pretty well known at this point). I earlier compared this campaign to the last season of The West Wing. Unfortunately, Sen. McCain walked away from the principles that made him a compelling candidate in 2000 and decided that the sleazy tactics that worked for GWB (and McCain denounced then) would work for him as well.
Meanwhile, Sen. Obama is picking up endorsements left and right:
Chicago Tribune (which has never endorsed a Democrat for president):
It may have seemed audacious for Obama to start his campaign in Springfield, invoking Lincoln. We think, given the opportunity to hold this nation’s most powerful office, he will prove it wasn’t so audacious after all. We are proud to add Barack Obama’s name to Lincoln’s in the list of people the Tribune has endorsed for president of the United States.
We may one day look back on this presidential campaign in wonder. We may marvel that Obama’s critics called him an elitist, as if an Ivy League education were a source of embarrassment, and belittled his eloquence, as if a gift with words were suddenly a defect. In fact, Obama is educated and eloquent, sober and exciting, steady and mature. He represents the nation as it is, and as it aspires to be.
Republicans love to mock Obama’s history as a community organizer. But here was a man with no money to offer, no patronage to dispense, no way to punish his opponents. All he could do was to work with people from all walks of life, liberals and conservatives, business people and the unemployed, and bring them together in common cause for a better community. Could there really be better preparation to reunite a worried and divided America to again pursue our “more perfect union”?
…and Colin Powell:
