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"We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy. So much of the Presidency, as they say, is a matter of waking up in the morning and trying to drink from a fire hydrant. In the quiet of the Oval Office, the noise of immediate demands can be deafening. And yet Obama has precisely the temperament to shut out the noise when necessary and concentrate on the essential. 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. ..." - Steve Isaacs
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"... 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. - Steve Isaacs
fantastically written. - Chieze Okoye
OOC, any idea when other endorsements are expected? I'm assuming we'll get a flood of publications picking one of the two candidates over the coming two weeks. - dkb
Once again, so worried about our "image abroad". When will we wake up and learn? - Charles LePage
They do point out one of the reasons he is likely to win: there will be some people who will find it hard to be part of the historical nature of his winning the election, despite the fact that, no matter his skin color, he's absolutely unprepared for the job, and doesn't understand the role of the President and federal government in our lives. - Charles LePage
However, we as a nation elected James Carter and Bill Clinton, despite what we knew about them. And, we re-elected Clinton. So anything is possible. We will most likely elect someone who admits he will do and say anything to get elected, in whom people see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. He's the blank slate we have been waiting for. - Charles LePage
@Charles: You are entitled to your opinion. However, you're not providing anything of substance to either a) back up your opinions or b) positively affirm why another candidate is better suited to the task. - AJ Kohn
And McCain is saying whatever he has to say to keep the religious right on his side...And even went so far as to choose an unqualified person for VP to energize that part of the base. Like I keep saying, people in glass houses... - Alex "Maverick" Scoble
There is an egotism bursting at the seams here. We didn't even elect Bush, because of what we knew about him. And, we re-elected him, and now realize something we thought would never happen - abuse of the Constitution the president swore to protect. Another point - McCain is no blank slate, but other than that, we will most likely *not* elect the candidate you describe so perfectly, if today's polls are any indication of what is to be on Nov. 4. - JodyC
