North Carolina: Charlotte Observer Endorses Obama

[babylonsister]

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGCSNz

North Carolina: Charlotte Observer Endorses Obama
By Christopher Hass - May 4th, 2008 at 10:55 am EDT


This morning the Charlotte Observer formally endorsed Barack Obama, calling Tuesday's upcoming Democratic primary "a time for change."

Do the Democrats need a restoration of the past, or is it time for a change? We think it's time for a change. We recommend a vote for Barack Obama in Tuesday's primary.

... in the campaign, as in the Senate, he has shown the ability to learn.

Nominating Sen. Obama would send a powerful message to the world. He's the son of a white mother from Kansas and an absent father from Kenya. His personal story would make it plain that America is changing for the better. His appreciation of the need for international cooperation is a welcome change from the Bush administration's know-it-all, go-it-alone tendencies.

Many N.C. Democratic leaders recognize his strengths. State Treasurer Richard Moore and Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue, the party's leading candidates for governor, have endorsed him. So have U.S. Reps. David Price, Mel Watt and G.K. Butterfield as well as Harvey Gantt, a former Charlotte mayor; Jim Phillips Jr., a Greensboro lawyer who chairs the UNC Board of Governors; and state Senate majority leader Tony Rand of Fayetteville.

Early in the campaign, Sen. Obama said, "We want a politics that reflects our best values. We want a politics that reflects our core decency, a politics that is based on a simple premise that we stand and fall together."

Yes, we do.

[YDogg]

1. K&R

[Brundle_Fly]

2. a simple

:dem: and rec.

[Thickasabrick]

3. Whoohoo!!! n/t

[greenvpi]

4. Why him and not a candidate that better represents the people from the area?

WTF. I'm from not far from Charlotte, and there is a much better candidate.

[WildClarySage]

5. I'm from Char too and I think he's a very good representative

of people there.