The Bush administration has bumbled from crisis to crisis for nearly eight years, competence gone AWOL. The nation needs resuscitating change like a new baby needs that first breath of air.
Two would-be successors pledge it. But Barack Obama is more believable. We recommend him to be the 44th president of the United States.
Obama's vision and potential to be that change agent trump his relative lack of experience, though the experience he possesses is valuable. The maturity and calm demeanor he has exhibited these past two years in the public spotlight and earlier, speak to able, careful, inclusive leadership. And he is simply the better of the two on the issues.
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But we think we know who the real Obama is. And, in us, this elicits high hopes and expectations.
He's the candidate who, throughout this campaign, mostly has acquitted himself with calm eloquence and pragmatic responses, energizing thousands who might not otherwise participate in the electoral process.
He's the candidate who recognizes that McCain's solution to health care (mostly tax credits and taxing health benefits), is no Rx for runaway health care costs and a vast army of uninsured Americans.
Obama instead proposes universal coverage through a mix of private and expanded public insurance that the experts say would put a far larger dent in the number of uninsured than would McCain's plan.
Obama is the candidate who recognized early the folly of invading Iraq and, earlier than McCain, spoke out because Afghanistan was spinning out of control.
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It is Obama, in his first term as a U.S. senator, who offers the freshest face of change. He, more than McCain, offers the best chance for instilling in Americans a new sense of unity and purpose and restoring the image abroad of an America as worthy as its ideals.
Obama for President.
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