The Express-Times endorses Barack Obama

[OKNancy]

Lehigh Valley - Pa.

The Express-Times endorses Barack Obama for president over John McCain

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Express-times endorsement

A riddle for our times: Most Americans agree we are confronted with a historic choice in this election, one that will determine whether we continue climbing the mountain or fall off the precipice, with dire consequences. Yet the focus for many voters in this campaign is whether the mud being slung at Barack Obama will find a toehold, and thus provide the opening to destroy his presidential ambitions.

This type of campaigning should be a source of national embarrassment, especially in times of crisis. We can only hope that voters recognize it as such -- and return their focus to the issues and leadership potential of Obama and John McCain.

But frankly, it's hard to get to a place where the campaign noise doesn't seep in and interfere with clear thinking. In its deliberations, The Express-Times editorial board found two things that should be marginal concerns kept coming up as make-or-break issues. And they added plenty of heat to the discussion.

-- McCain's choice of Sarah Palin for a running mate seems as shockingly amateurish and ill-advised today as it was in August. Nothing that has happened on the campaign trail has changed this.

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[ikojo]

1. Great endorsement. They recognize that Obama is not

perfect but he is the best qualified for the job at hand. I hope Americans everywhere will heed these words:

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/opinion/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1223784372215180.xml&coll=3&thispage=2


"We hope, too, that Americans will look past race as a reason to support or oppose any candidate, but this is a little naïve. Racism is a bubbling undercurrent that occasionally breaks the surface in presidential events and discussions, almost always as a latent doubt that anyone other than a white person is qualified to run the country.

It's time to prove that belief naïve. And outdated.

-snip-

The way to do it is to choose the candidate who'll draw on his own strengths and incite the passions of others to move us beyond, and begin to repair, the damage inflicted upon us.

That's Obama."

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Well, it IS good news, but...

Considering the number and quality of the frothing, mouth-breathing uber-wingnuts in LV, and especially in the LTTE's of the Express-Times, this endorsement should have them slingin' snot 'n spit for a good 100m radius around them.

E-T has a reliable cadre of mouth-breathers that quote the gospels and epistles of the squawking heads in a manner not unlike Catholics reciting the rosary, only these mouth-breathers memorized their subject matter far better. They are Energizer Rabbits, prolific and incessant and no reality, however stark, can intrude on their delusions.

Still, that is the second Dem endorsement(that I know of) in this election. I submit that Joe Owens' wife is slipping something in his morning Cream of Wheat. Generally, Joe is quite happy to stay with the status quo and not bend that little brain of his.

[Hope And Change]

3. K & R!