Los Angeles Times Endorses Obama, McCain By
Greg Sargent - February 1, 2008, 4:35PM The
Los Angeles Times throws its support to
Barack Obama and
John McCain.
It's a coup for both in a state where on the Dem side Obama is closing on Hillary and on the GOP side McCain is ahead and racking up major endorsements, such as that of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
On Obama:
An Obama presidency would present, as a distinctly American face, a man of African descent, born in the nation's youngest state, with a childhood spent partly in Asia, among Muslims. No public relations campaign could do more than Obama's mere presence in the White House to defuse anti-American passion around the world, nor could any political experience surpass Obama's life story in preparing a president to understand the American character. His candidacy offers Democrats the best hope of leading America into the future, and gives Californians the opportunity to cast their most exciting and consequential ballot in a generation. In the language of metaphor, Clinton is an essay, solid and reasoned; Obama is a poem, lyric and filled with possibility. Clinton would be a valuable and competent executive, but Obama matches her in substance and adds something that the nation has been missing far too long -- a sense of aspiration.
The McCain endorsement
here.
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