Alaska Newspaper Endorses Obama

The top newspaper in the home state of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama for president. Alaska’s largest-circulation paper, the Anchorage Daily News, said state governor Mrs Palin was “too risky” to be one step away from the presidency. More HERE…

The BOOM We have Been Waiting For

Mark Halperin has the news:

The former Bush Secretary of State crosses party lines to endorse Obama, citing his “ability to inspire and lead.”

Says the Illinois Senator dives deeply into issues and tackles them with a steady hand.

Makes the announcement on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.” Says he plans to vote– but not campaign– for Obama.

Powell also criticizes McCain’s negative ads, says he’s concerned by the choice of Palin as VP.

Chicago Tribune Endorses Barack Obama For President

Watch out for pigs in flight and put your hat and mittens on in Hell, because The Chicago Tribune has just endorsed Obama for president.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE ENDORSEMENT HERE

On Nov. 4 we’re going to elect a president to lead us through a perilous time and restore in us a common sense of national purpose.

The strongest candidate to do that is Sen. Barack Obama. The Tribune is proud to endorse him today for president of the United States.

New Yorker Endorsement of Barack Obama

 

On the heals of Barack Obama’s trouncing of John McCain in the latest debate, I thought I might throw out this glowing endorsement of Barack Obama by the New Yorker.

The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.