mises
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 Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: endorsements |
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I've posted the final paragraph of each piece, as that is where they usually get to the point.
For Obama:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603436_pf.html
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| But Mr. Obama's temperament is unlike anything we've seen on the national stage in many years. He is deliberate but not indecisive; eloquent but a master of substance and detail; preternaturally confident but eager to hear opposing points of view. He has inspired millions of voters of diverse ages and races, no small thing in our often divided and cynical country. We think he is the right man for a perilous moment. |
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-endorse19-2008oct19,0,5198206.story
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| 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. |
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-chicago-tribune-endorsement,0,1371034.story?track=email-alert-breakingnews
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| 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. |
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors
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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. 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. |
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081013/OPINION01/810120372/1007/OPINION
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| In a historical context, support of Obama might be expected to focus on his race. He is the first African-American to head a major party ticket for the presidency, which should be a source of great pride for the candidate and the country. It must be noted here. But the times and the candidate do not signal such a narrow view, where race is the overwhelming story of Obama's candidacy. Throughout a lengthy, trying campaign, Obama has simply emerged as the right person at the right time to lead the nation when leadership is at a premium. The nation could ask for no more. Obama has the opportunity to lift the United States at a time when its burdens are heavy. His campaign has carried a theme of "Yes We Can," which is exactly the message the nation needs to hear most now. |
http://sefora.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/nobel_letter4.pdf
65 U.S. Nobel Laureates in Science
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Senator Obama understands that Presidential leadership and federal investments in science and
technology are crucial elements in successful governance of the world's leading country. We hope you will join us as we work together to ensure his election in November. |
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/10/14/obama_for_president/
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| An early Obama campaign slogan declared, "We are the ones we've been waiting for." His critics deemed such rhetoric too ethereal. Now it seems prescient, as the nation confronts a financial crisis of historic proportions, as well as all the other policy failures and debt-fueled excesses of the last eight years. The United States has to dig itself out. Barack Obama is the one to lead the way. |
For McCain:
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2008/10/12/opinion/editorial/doc48f143729f43a730676949.txt
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Yet Obama�s record of political achievement is sparse when compared to McCain�s, and his ability to navigate through storms such as the ones before us is untested.
We cannot afford to project our hopes on one so unproven.
One candidate for president has the experience to lead our people through what promises to be a period of difficult choices and sacrifice in order to keep the United States what we truly believe it to be � the greatest nation on Earth. That candidate is John McCain. |
http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/515380.html?nav=511
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| Simply because McCain's character has been one of service to the people - not to a political party or the gigantic federal bureaucracy - we urge residents of our area to cast their ballots for John McCain, the leader Americans need. |
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