Tribune Endorses Democrat for President
Obama is deeply grounded in the best aspirations of this country, and we need to return to those aspirations. He has had the character and the will to achieve great things despite the obstacles that he faced as an unprivileged black man in the U.S.
He has risen with his honor, grace and civility intact. He has the intelligence to understand the grave economic and national security risks that face us, to listen to good advice and make careful decisions.
When Obama said at the 2004 Democratic Convention that we weren’t a nation of red states and blue states, he spoke of union the way Abraham Lincoln did.
It may have seemed audacious for Obama to start his campaign in Springfield, invoking Lincoln. We think, given the opportunity to hold this nation’s most powerful office, he will prove it wasn’t so audacious after all. We are proud to add Barack Obama’s name to Lincoln’s in the list of people the Tribune has endorsed for president of the United States.
My dad predicted it!!!!
You know God only allows a limited number of miracles each year. He apparently chose this rather than the Cubs winning the World Series.
I see it as a homer move until I see some genuine contrition out of the Trib editorial board for enabling Bush’s nonsense policies.
I still remember the editorial where the Trib blamed the Democrats for two bombings in Turkey.
Chicago’s hometown guy is going to win. And the Trib editorial board is merely jumping on the bandwagon.
Well, it looks like it’s going to be a bad year for Republicans.
When I get home, I’m going to have a look at their endorsement of Hoover in ’32 to see what the reasoning was to go with the disaster that was the GOP ticket back then.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but after all these years, is this a sign of a true change of heart or an acknowledgement that what the Editorial Board of the Chicago Tribune thinks one way or another really doesn’t matter any more. In other words, it this an expression of sincerity or irrelevance?
On the ‘Limousine’ going home,
LEO