N & O Endorses Obama!

[Triana]

Raleigh (NC) News & Observer: It's Obama

Source: Raleigh News & Observer

It's Obama

Much has been made in this election year of Barack Obama's Ivy League law degree, of his smoothly written memoirs, of his supreme gift of oratory, of his calm eloquence under the pressure of debate. But, say his critics, he is an elitist. He is not, they say, one of us.

In fact, the junior U.S. senator from Illinois -- the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, the product of humble beginnings and a raising by his extended family, the kid with big dreams, the young man with much ambition, the hard worker who made the most of his education and his opportunities and then went to Chicago to help others do likewise -- could not be more of an example of all that America is and all that it can be. Barack Obama has weathered the rigors of a long and difficult fight for his party's presidential nomination and now seeks to make true the biggest dream of all, to become the president of the United States.

Today, a little more than two weeks from this critically important Election Day, The News & Observer, with pride and hope, in the belief that Obama is exactly what the nation needs at a time when the hills are steep and the winds against us are stiff, enthusiastically endorses him for president. His time has come. And these times have come to him.

North Carolinians need to hear no extended litany of all the challenges that face them and their fellow Americans. The nation is in an economic crisis, with unemployment high, small businesses threatened, health care inadequate and too expensive for many, and the consequences of the reckless greed of Wall Street all too painfully apparent. . .

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/story/1260528.html

[nclib]

1. Thanks for the info, Triana.

I wondered who they would endorse.

[barbtries]

2. this is great

i've been in NC for just a year: do they usually endorse the democrat?

by the way i think you should cross post this. it's good news for NC and for the campaign.

[Triana]

3. Actually someone else posted it in GD or GD-P and I stole it from there

to put it here. So, between the two of us, it's been X-posted.

And no they don't usually endorse the Democrat! That's what's exciting.

NC hasn't even gone for a Dem for President since Jimmy Carter. I'm SO hoping they pull it out for Obama this time!

[barbtries]

4. you and me both!

i come from CA which always goes blue. this afternoon i got a call from moveon.org looking for volunteers. we discussed obama's chances in NC. she told me that other people she'd spoken to here were not as optimistic as i am - but i am! i think he's gonna pull it off, i really do.

[Nanceirish]

5. Hi all, I'm in Wake Forest

I am new to posting to the DU, I have been reading it since 2004. I hope we can turn NC blue this year. I've been here in NC since 1996, a relocated small town yankee who worked on the Kerry campaign, although I didn't have the conviction or beliefe in him that I do for Obama. As an aside, does anyone know how to create a signature (usually shows up in small grey font at the bottom of your post). I'd greatly appreciate any help with that.

[Triana]

6. HEY Nanceirish! Welcome! I've been here since 1995...

...I'd be SO excited to see NC go blue this time! I'm also much more excited about Obama than I was about Kerry, tho I love John Kerry too. He's been great at helping Obama. I just wish he'd had that fight in him in 2004.

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