RK ARCHIVE - Two Major Newspaper Endorsements for Obama

1. The Baltimore Sun "strongly endorses Mr. Obama as the Democratic nominee for president," saying that "Mr. Obama is more likely [than Sen. Clinton] to turn the page to a new era and deliver real change that is urgently needed to deal with the nation's economic, social and political problems."

2. The Cleveland Plain Dealer asks, "Who wants to relive the soap operas of the 1990s?" and concludes, "America needs a fresh start. Barack Obama is the Democrat to provide it."

Two excellent endorsements, one from Maryland's leading newspaper and the other from the largest newspaper in Ohio -- a key state remaining in this year's Democratic primaries. Obviously, these are both great news for Barack Obama!

Comments

An endorsement, but is it news? (jsrutstein - 2/10/2008 12:48:17 PM)

It's so hard to keep up with all the news; so, I'm not sure if this is news, but at politico.com they're reporting Jim Moran's endorsement of Obama at T.C. Williams this afternoon as a surprise.

in my defense (jsrutstein - 2/10/2008 1:35:28 PM)

Lowell, did you read the text of my comment? I wasn't disputing the newsiness of the endorsements you mentioned. I was questioning whether Moran's endorsement of Obama was news, that is, had it already been reported, especially here at Obama Central.

Moran's endorsement is news (Lowell - 2/10/2008 1:37:46 PM)

because it had been reported previously that he WOULD endorse, but now he actually has. I agree, that's not huge news but still...

Add the El Paso Times to the list.. (ericy - 2/10/2008 5:12:55 PM)

http://www.elpasotimes.com/opi...

The El Paso Times recommends that El Pasoans voting in the March 4 Democratic presidential primary cast their votes for Barack Obama. A weary America, tired of the status quo, fed up with business as usual, is longing for a positive change -- and Barack Obama is that change.
Of the two viable Democratic presidential candidates, Obama represents a fresh future rather than an inevitable harking back to the past -- what was a divisive and contentious past for many.
Obama has developed a solid and believable platform that addresses Americans' major concerns.

Obama should wrap it up Mar 4 (pvogel - 2/10/2008 6:00:18 PM)

Let the healing begin. He will need plenty of help from fellow democrats, indypendants, republicans, Americans, everybody.

I hope so... (ericy - 2/10/2008 6:07:00 PM)

The past months have been hard over at DKos and other sites. Candidate diaries with the inevitable flaming and then the pie fight a few days ago. When we fight amongst ourselves, we only strengthen the Republicans.

Most of the early primary battles were fairly civil and polite, especially among the candidates that never made it this far. Once the voting started is when things really started to get out of hand.

Had to laugh, Eric. (spotter - 2/10/2008 11:33:31 PM)

"Once the voting started is when things really started to get out of hand."

I'm sure the Clintons feel the same way.