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No one can say with certainty what shape those challenges may take in the next four years. What is certain is that the next president will need to bring many skills and ideas to bear on those challenges.
By electing Barack Obama to the nation's highest office, voters can show that they recognize the seriousness of the present situation and their readiness to tackle whatever the future may bring.
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Couric uses Chigago Tribune Endorsement
"The Chicago Tribune did something today it had never done before -- it had not endorsed a Democrat for President, not even Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson in his two runs,"- CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric touted Friday night before heralding the endorsement of the candidate from the paper's circulation area: "But today, the Trib endorsed Illinois Senator Barack Obama. It said he's better suited than John McCain to restore a quote, 'common sense of national purpose.'"-
The endorsement editorial posted Friday afternoon, but presumably to appear in Sunday's newspaper, acknowledged the paper's admiration for the hometown Senator is nothing new: "On Dec. 6, 2006, this page encouraged Obama to join the presidential campaign. We wrote that he would celebrate our common values instead of exaggerate our differences. We said he would raise the tone of the campaign. We said his intellectual depth would sharpen the policy debate. In the ensuing 22 months he has done just that."-
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from the Malaysian Star, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia:
In an outbreak of class warfare, Republican John McCain Saturday likened Democrat Barack Obama to European socialists who advocate redistributing wealth as he desperately tried to reverse his declining poll numbers.
With just over two weeks remaining to Election Day, the campaign heated up as Obama countered by accusing his rival of being "out of touch'' with the struggles of middle-class Americans who need "a break.''
The presidential candidates swapped sharply worded charges over tax cuts, each accusing the other of shortchanging middle-income Americans at a time of economic hardship for millions.
McCain has become increasingly aggressive in debates, personal appearances and _ in the past few days _ automated phone calls as the polls showed him falling behind nationally as well as in several key battleground states. Obama attacks his rival heartily, yet his rhetoric is backed by a late-campaign television advertising blitz that McCain has so far proven unable to match.
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HOUSTON CHRONICLE: The Chronicle endorses Barack Obama for president and Joe Biden for vice president of the United States
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Oct. 18, 2008, 9:21AM
The Chronicle endorses Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for president of the United States.
Rarely in our country's history has the electorate gone to the polls to choose a new president in such challenging times with more at stake for the nation.
The economy is tottering under the strains of a global financial crisis unleashed by the unregulated excesses of U.S. lending institutions. American soldiers continue to fight and die in two separate conflicts that remain open-ended.
At home affordable health care is unavailable to millions of citizens while measures to achieve energy independence and combat global warming sit on the legislative back burner. Fear pervades so many households under the threat of unemployment and mortgage foreclosures.
One must go back to the Great Depression, and the reshaping of American domestic policy to vanquish it, to find a comparable era when the demands for change were so urgent.
