The Patriot News Endorses Obama: Illinois senator projects sense of leadership the nation needs

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The Patriot-News


Illinois senator projects sense of leadership the nation needs
Wednesday, April 16, 2008


Any election, almost by definition, is about the future. That's true even as, all too often, the discussion gets bogged down in the past, the present and politics.

The next president will preside over the next four or eight years, a period that promises to be as transformative -- even as traumatic -- as any we've known in our history. There are forces in play, from economics to the environment, from terrorism to energy, that are beyond the capacity of any single individual, no matter how powerful, to control.

But make no mistake, whom America elects as its next president will make a big difference in how we as a nation engage the future and confront a long menu of challenges. Whom Democrats select as their nominee to face Republi can Sen. John McCain is critical in es tablishing the nature of the choice Amer icans will confront in the General Election. And how Pennsyl vania votes in the April 22 Democratic primary may well prove to be the decisive milestone in an exciting political contest between two exceptional candidates.

It is one of those strange, unpredictable flukes of politics that Pennsylvania even matters. Virtually everyone expected the contests in both parties to have been settled several weeks and primaries ago. That was not to be for the Democrats, and we in Pennsylvania are the richer -- and perhaps wiser -- for having Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama working their hearts out to win votes in their quest for the nation's highest office.

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[yellerpup]

1. "The candidate FOR hope..."

Good recommendation. K&R! :kick:

[GreenStates]

2. But

all I care about is Bruce Springsteens support