The Gray Lady Speaks

[lsanderson]

Editorial
Barack Obama for President
Published: October 23, 2008

Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.

The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable. More

Comments

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Gee, I wish they had been a little more forthright . . . ;)

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised -- almost astonished -- that the NYT endorsement was so forthright and partisan. I've generally found, in the past, that major metro newspapers either try to avoid endorsing any candidate, or to appear reluctant and wishy-washy in their choice, but I guess that image was formed in a byegone era. Hyperbole aside, however, they _do_ seem to have their facts right.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

That's one of the most concise and reasoned arguments for voting for Obama that I've seen...