"He's Transformative And Restorative": New York Observer Endorses Obama

"He's Transformative And Restorative": New York Observer Endorses Obama

Huffington Post | January 22, 2008 09:43 PM


The New York Observer is set to endorse Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in the upcoming Feb. 5 Democratic primary, The Huffington Post has learned. The Observer writes that the fact that he has "risen too quickly for his opponents' taste" is "nothing less than a recommendation."

Below is an excerpt of the Observer's endorsement, slated to hit the paper's Web site Wednesday morning.


Obama for America:
We Back Barack in
Democratic Primary
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Yes, He's Transformative
And Restorative as Well


The New York Observer urges New York Democrats to support Mr. Obama in the state's presidential primary on Feb. 5.

New Yorkers might ask why they should not pull a lever for our junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton. While Mrs. Clinton is an extraordinary United States senator for New York, we believe that Mr. Obama can be a great president for the United States of America.

Most of the other candidates have absorbed, assimilated or appropriated Mr. Obama's issue of change.

But a great deal of the argument for Mr. Obama's candidacy is about one great issue in American life: Restoring American democracy.

It is difficult to remember the last national candidate who has charged and jazzed the democratic system as Mr. Obama has. Partly as a result of his candidacy, college campuses have remembered why they are proud of the United States, kids are going door to door, runners are handing out leaflets on weekends, racial lines have been culturally melted and the electoral approach to presidential campaigning has been reborn.

And, as more than one commentator has said, America is being reintroduced to the world.

Mr. Obama stands the best chance of restoring the essential relationship between power and the American people. He is not flanked and blocked by an existing, entrenched power structure; his words are not muddied by layers of handlers; he still says what he means.

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To get another puppet in the WH then go about business as usual. They already know who he hero worships.

so is hot herbal tea and a colonic. :shrug:

I thought when I read the OP's title. ROFL!

but, given the choice between those two and Obama in the General, I'd be in a fetal position with my knickers around my knees and my hands clasped around a steaming cup of Mint Twig Sunrise.