Billings Gazette (MT): Gazette Opinion: Obama the president America needs now

Not a shocker, but still a great push for our very "toss-up" state!

(gonna go read the mean and nasty "cancel subscription" comments now - those will be fun!)

"A year ago, few people would have predicted that Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama would be their parties' nominees for president. A few months ago, when their party selections were assured, there was reason to hope that the general election campaign would be conducted on a higher level of debate than has marked recent presidential contests. So it has been a disappointment that much of McCain's campaign has focused on smearing Obama."

"McCain, who has served in the U.S. Senate many more years, reasonably called attention to the first-term Democrat's shorter tenure. Yet McCain selected a running mate who had been governor of Alaska for only two years. As troubling as Sarah Palin's lack of knowledge on national and foreign issues is her role in making the campaign rhetoric uglier and more divisive. The Palin pick was a mistake.

Like McCain, Sen. Joe Biden has a long track record in Congress and great depth of knowledge in international policy. He is a much stronger VP candidate than Palin.

Regardless of whether McCain or Obama is elected, the new president will face enormous obstacles in putting this nation on a path to prosperity that all citizens can share. Major tax policy changes should be delayed until there is substantially greater stability in the U.S. economy. The new president will have to surround himself with smart advisers and break the partisan gridlock that has paralyzed Washington, D.C. If Obama wins the White House and Democrats control both chambers of Congress, he must stand up to his own party members if they try to block reforms, refuse necessary spending restraints or bog down his proposals."

more: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/10/26/opinion/gazette/20-gazetteopinion.txt

Edit to add first IDIOTIC comment!!! :crazy: :nopity: :dunce:


(from Conan the Libertarinan) bwaaahahahah
"Well this should serve to confirm (as if there was ever any doubt) that the Gazette is a socialist organization. It’s ironic, that a business such as a newspaper that would never exist in a socialist society is so quick to endorse socialism. Barack is a socialist, with questionable ties to islam. Hey, let’s let the government manage our health care. After all, look at their track record of success at everything else they do (social security, medicare, the war on poverty, the war on drugs, etc.) The economic situation in America is simple and so obvious a blind man could see it. We as individuals, governments, and businesses have been abusing credit. We spend like drunken sailors. We have champaign taste on a beer budget. Now it’s time to take our lumps. It cannot be avoided. Some will not make it. That’s OK. Those who do will be stronger and hopefully wiser. Electing Obama to “spread the wealth” is a bad idea. Unfortunately, the one man who had the correct vision for our nation will not be elected – Ron Paul. Only a return to the principals this country was founded on will help us. Both McCain and Obama’s policies will only prolong the problems. However, Obama’s solutions are much worse.

If Ron Paul's on the ballot, we've got more than a shot at this one!

Billings gets it - but this won't happen without all our help. Ask yourself what you can do each of these last 9 days to make it happen.

Yes. We. Can.

As far as population, is it Billings, Great Falls, Missoula, Bozeman, Helena?