October 27, 2008 12:02 AM UTC

Anchorage Daily News: Obama for President

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• by: droll

The Anchorage Daily News issued an almost brutally honest endorsement today, for Sen. Obama.  They, rightly, write more about the difference between the candidates than Palin, they were not kind to McCain.

Sen. McCain describes himself as a maverick, by which he seems to mean that he spent 25 years trying unsuccessfully to persuade his own party to follow his bipartisan, centrist lead. Sadly, maverick John McCain didn’t show up for the campaign. Instead we have candidate McCain, who embraces the extreme Republican orthodoxy he once resisted and cynically asks Americans to buy for another four years.

It is Sen. Obama who truly promises fundamental change in Washington. You need look no further than the guilt-by-association lies and sound-bite distortions of the degenerating McCain campaign to see how readily he embraces the divisive, fear-mongering tactics of Karl Rove.

Palin was covered at the beginning and the end.  In the beginning they were nicer, stating that she wasn’t the problem, the problem is McCain, but at the end they were more unfavorable.

Yet despite her formidable gifts, few who have worked closely with the governor would argue she is truly ready to assume command of the most important, powerful nation on earth. To step in and juggle the demands of an economic meltdown, two deadly wars and a deteriorating climate crisis would stretch the governor beyond her range. Like picking Sen. McCain for president, putting her one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world is just too risky at this time.

All in all it’s a good piece, but it doesn’t really focus on Obama much, more about how McCain is not so good for the nation right now.  I was also thinking that it is a little strange that Palin had five of thirteen paragraphs, but I’ll let it slide because she’s a neighborhood girl.

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