Seattle Post Intelligencer Supports Obama

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P-I endorsement: Elect Obama

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

If the country ever needed new direction under a fresh, steady, calm president, this is the time. Sen. Barack Obama is the country's hope, the kind of promising, intelligent leader who comes along perhaps once in a generation.

Obama is the best candidate for president. He has the vision, patience and fortitude to put America on a track to recovery after an eight-year run of financial irresponsibility, aggressive adventurism abroad and mismanagement, secrecy and dissembling on numerous fronts.

The issues and the superiority of the Obama-Joe Biden team have become clearer than ever in the past few days. Obama spoke the unvarnished truth when he called the need for a record-breaking economic rescue plan a "final judgment." It was a sweeping verdict not just on the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush but also on the Republican deregulatory obsessions that Sen. John McCain has shared broadly.

Over the weekend, McCain and his campaign began what may be a go-for-broke, desperate attempt to save the Republican control of the White House by swamping the country with irrelevant, negative slander of Obama as a dangerous radical. The real issues have nothing whatsoever to do with the attempt to ignite fear over the fact that the resolutely optimistic, well-balanced Obama has had scant connection with a onetime radical.

As never before in the lifetimes of any but the Greatest Generation, the country faces challenges at home and abroad. Overcoming hurdles, building for the future and making us more secure financially and strategically will require a president with Obama's clear desire and surpassing ability to speak to all Americans.

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[MadMaddie]

1. That's my local paper! This is good!