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EDITORIAL
America is readyfor Obama
As the only newspaper in New Hampshire to endorse Sen. John McCain in both the 2000 and 2008 primaries, we have made the difficult decision not to support him for president.
All politicians compromise, equivocate and pander. But by choosing Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, the once straight-talking maverick that New Hampshire grew to respect and admire crossed the line and sold his soul. Faced with either following his instincts by choosing a moderate, like Sen. Joe Lieberman or former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, either of whom would have appealed to independent voters, McCain caved in to the far right of his party and chose perhaps the least qualified vice presidential nominee ever. It is a decision that cost him the support of many conservative heavyweights, including Gen. Colin Powell and Christopher Buckley, and it is a decision that should cost him the presidency.
Sen. Barack Obama, however, promises to be a transformational president not unlike, and not seen since, Ronald Reagan, who in 1980 unleashed a renewed spirit of optimism in America and nearly three decades of uninterrupted prosperity. Just as 1980 marked the repudiation of the Democrats, who dominated public policy starting with FDR’s New Deal and ending with Jimmy Carter, amid economic stagflation and the humiliation of the hostage taking in Iran, it is now the Republicans whose ideas are bankrupt and whose party has run out of gas.
President Bush turned Reagan’s brand of can-do conservatism into the politics of fear, greed and misguided foreign policies, leaving this country with a broken economy and an unpopular war. What fitter symbols are there of Bush’s arrogance and cynicism than the “Mission Accomplished” banner pronouncing the end of a war that was just beginning, and $600 tax rebates, the subtext of which was to convince Americans we could spend our way out of a recession.
This country is ready to change; ready to change the way we fight terrorism and deal with our allies and enemies, ready for a dramatic new energy policy, ready for new ways to fix our health care system and ready for economic policies that inspire us to work and create, rather than to spend money we don’t have.
America has an amazing and unique ability to reinvent itself and choose the leader who can do this. That was Reagan in 1980. It is now Obama.
http://www.laconiadailysun.com/pdf/2008/10/28.pdf
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