NY Times endorsement of Obama

Lincoln: First NY Times endorsee

Just wanted to point you all towards this awesome NY Times editorial endorsing Barack Obama.

It’s great that the Times is sticking McCain over his support of deregulation (which even Greenspan is now regretting), and I think it’s awesome that they’re calling attention to the coolness and rationality that Obama is exhibiting in dealing with this financial crisis.  It’s also good that they’re putting the blame on Bush for the past eight years of failed leadership.  Bush has done so many bad things in office: created a tax plan that has increased inequality and created and new guilded age, led us into an illegal war, created a domestic spying program that has ignored rights of American citizens like no president before.  It’s good that there will now be a historical record to hold him accountable.

Also, check out the timeline of the NY Times endorsements, starting with their support of President Lincoln.  Click on the pdf’s and read the text of the actual endorsements.  It’s an awesome trip through American history.

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