Hartford Courant (CT's biggest newspaper) endorses Obama - endorsed Bush in 2000 & 2004

A few people reported this on DU on Friday that the Courant would endorse Obama - their 2nd Democrat in 244 years - but, this is the actual endorsement. Please add a comment at the end, if you can. There are over 80 already:

We Endorse Obama For President
INSPIRING, UNIFYING He would make the nation proud

In its 244-year history, The Courant has endorsed only one Democratic candidate for president, Bill Clinton. Today we endorse a second Democrat, Sen. Barack Obama, with the hope that if elected, he governs from the middle as Mr. Clinton did. Mr. Obama must resist serving only his party's interests and instead serve the greater interests of a worried nation.

America is starved for a leader who can restore pride and once again make the nation a beacon for the world, or in the words of Massachusetts Gov. John Winthrop in 1630, "a city on a hill — with the eyes of all people upon us."

Mr. Obama has the right qualities of leadership, the elevating, can-do message that "we are the ones we have been waiting for" and the calm temperament for these anxious times. He has the counsel of such trusted figures as former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell and investment legend Warren Buffett.

The son of a black Kenyan and a white Kansan, Mr. Obama is a transformative figure, as Mr. Powell has said. He would be the first African American president if elected.

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-endorsepresidential.artoct26,0,4200512.story

Then I never ever expected that rag to endorse Democrats.