Plain Dealer endorses Obama for president

[Algorem]

http://blog.cleveland.com/pdopinion/2008/10/obama_for_president.html
Posted by The editors October 18, 2008 22:59PM
Categories: Editorial, Endorsement, News Impact, OPEN Impact, Real Time News

Members of The Plain Dealer's editorial board voted on this endorsement. They are Publisher Terrance C.Z. Egger, Editor Susan Goldberg, Editorial Page Director Brent W. Larkin, Deputy Editorial Page Director Kevin O'Brien and Associate Editors Sharon Broussard, Christopher Evans, Joe Frolik and Elizabeth Sullivan.

After eight years of George W. Bush, America needs a change in direction and a change in tone.

It needs a president who understands that, yes, the world can be dangerous, but it is also complex. That the United States cannot defend its freedom by abandoning its principles. That it cannot ignore its allies one day and demand their help the next.


It needs a president who knows that optimism, not fear, defines America. That tax cuts and deregulation alone are not an economic strategy. That Washington cannot sit idle when a great city is devastated by nature or when millions of hardworking Americans are devastated by losing their homes, their jobs, their health care...


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Posted by stevenrosen on 10/18/08 at 11:14PM

Thanks for doing the right thing this time. How about apologizing for endorsing Bush in '04?...

[bluestateguy]

1. Wasn't there some big controversy about them endorsing Bush in 2004

Where the board voted to endorse Kerry but the publisher ordered them to endorse Bush?

[Ms. Toad]

2. They didn't endorse Bush in '04

They made no endorsement for president that year.