Obama speaking to nearly 100,000 St. Louis supporters on Saturday.Recently, Utah’s Salt Lake Tribune newspaper endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president. Part of their reasoning of choosing Obama over John McCain is due to the Arizona senator’s choice of Sarah Palin as his V.P. :
“...More than any single factor, McCain's bad judgment in choosing the inarticulate, insular and ethically challenged Palin disqualifies him for the presidency… Obama has shown the temperament, judgment, intellect and political acumen that are essential in a president that would lead the United States out of the crises created by President Bush, a complicit Congress and our own apathy".
This is an amazing endorsement by the Salt Lake Tribune because in the 2004 election, President Bush carried Utah with close to 72% of the vote (his best showing anywhere).
As of October 21, 2008, Obama now leads John McCain 121-42 in editorial endorsements, (in 2004, John Kerry slightly edge out George W. Bush in endorsements by 213 to 205).
Including the Salt Lake Tribune, at least 26 newspapers that backed Bush in 2004 are now behind Obama.
This list includes: The Chicago Tribune, (which never back a Democratic in its 150 year existence) The Denver Post, Houston Chronicle, New York's Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, The Canton Repository (Ohio) Kansas City Star, Naples Daily-News, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Hamilton Journal-News (Ohio) which summed up their switch best by stating:
“…The election of Obama on Nov. 4 does not guarantee that he will be able to deliver immediately on the ambitious agenda of change that he has been discussing and developing with Americans for the past 20 months. Nor will his selection solve the world's economic crisis. But electing Obama next month does declare to the entire world that a new, positive and optimistic course has been set for America, with attainable and desirable goals that will lift up the 305 million people who call this country home”.
Well said.
Kevin Lockett
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