Posted on 10/16/2008 7:10:16 PM PDT by SmithL
From the start of the campaign, Americans were confronted with profound policy choices about how and when to extricate this nation from a war it initiated, how to temper a looming recession, and whether to continue Bush administration policies that had widened the gap between rich and poor, eroded individual liberties, strengthened presidential power, shifted the Supreme Court to the right, weakened relations with our allies, and delayed action necessary to slow the warming of the planet.
Then, suddenly, the emergence of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression gave Americans an opportunity to see the two major-party candidates under heightened stress. It was a rare chance to see the two senators encounter the type of pressure that comes with the job description of president of the United States.
Even though each ultimately voted for the same solution - the $700 billion bailout - their demeanors could not have been more different. Sen. John McCain magnified the aura of crisis, "suspending" his campaign to return to Washington, where his role in negotiations was at best tangential. Sen. Barack Obama was a portrait of calmness and deliberation, reminding Americans that it is possible for a leader to juggle more than one task at a time.
Obama showed steadiness in a moment of anxiety, with Americans' portfolios withering and policymakers scrambling to do something - anything - to staunch the panic. The Illinois senator was similarly deliberative - in contrast with McCain's quick-draw provocation - when Russia invaded Georgia in August.
In those crises, and in the hot lights of three debates, Obama demonstrated a presidential depth...
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yes, the Chron is always so unbiased. /sarc
Latte-drinking liberals have no received word from their supreme overlords that it is ok to vote for Barack Obama.
I couldn’t stomach the upcoming endorsement of Obama in the Raleigh News and Observer.
So I cancelled my paper two days ago. Take that dinosaur liberal media rag!
Yawn. Dog bites man if ever there was one.
They would save so much time if they simply stated “we will be endorsing the Democrat candidate from now until eternity.”
The national press is comical joke, so transparent and vapid that they need not even attempt to mask their obvious agenda.
Gee, who saw that coming? I wonder if they’ve already printed up their edition for the day after election day?
OMG!!!! Do they know he isn’t gay???
He will lead us to hell, he has not the answer for anything this country needs.
Good, I can stop holding my breath!
Question: How many crises have been the worst since the Great Depression?
Answer: All of the GOP ones...
but lets all believe the polls these rags are pushing
Some of the comments posted on SFGate.com as a response are actually quite funny.
See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2008/10/16/BALP13H6V9.DTL
> “Chronicle endorses Obama. In other news, dog bites man. Knock me over with a feather.”
LOL!
Do you know he isn't gay?
I agree he is the Most Qualified to lead us to our Final Destruction
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