Char-O endorses Obama

Responding to the editorial. (I'm using excerpts and paraphrasing when the editorial is too wordy, you may want to be sure to read it for yourself):

Char-O: The choice between Sen. Obama and Hillary Clinton is not easy. She is indeed ready to be president on day one. (Me: I agree, she is ready.)

Char-O: She received assurances that force would be used only as a last resort. She isn't responsible for the debacle in Iraq; President Bush is. (Me: I agree.)

Char-O: Many of her supporters seem intent on depicting Sen. Obama as the Jesse Jackson of 2008, a leader who appeals to an ethnic minority but not to the broader electorate needed to win. (Me: Many of her supporters? Who? How many? Out of millions of supporters?)

Char-O: She sometimes exaggerates her influence and experiences, as when she claimed she "helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland" and said she ducked under sniper fire in Bosnia. (Me: Or misspeaks, as everyone does sometimes. Lord, Sen. Obama has said, of Wright: That is not the man I know. Ooops? I guess it is the man I know. And today he said that man he can't not decide if he knows or not has been saying that for years. What is that?) And the Irish would dispute your assessment here.)

Char - O: Florida and Michigan… After Sen. Clinton did well in those states, she pushed to change the rules and count the votes. That's a cynical, self-serving effort to corrupt the selection process. (Obama didn’t know the Rules, Clinton did. The Rules include the right to petition for a way to count every vote. She did not push to change the rules, but to use them. She is smarter. Giver her more delegates for that.)

Char- O: Her tendency to tell voters what they want to hear is disturbing. Her proposal to suspend the federal tax on gasoline this summer is campaign gimmickry, not leadership. Her assertion that she was a critic of NAFTA from the beginning is simply unbelievable. The record shows she was an ardent advocate of the trade deal. (Me: Doing something in the short term is better than nothing and that is leadership. Ridiculing that is insensitive to those who desperately need relief. Pennies matter to a lot of us.) Me: The intent of the Clinton Administration was to include fair and equitable in the policy. Congress stopped that and Bush chose to keep it stopped. She supports a NAFTA that works for America and always has.)

Char-O: Is he ready for to be president? His relative inexperience is reason for concern. He has no executive experience. (Me:Does the United States need the best leader it can get? If you don't know that...)

Char-O: Experience is important? George W. Bush had six years' experience as governor of a big, complex state, yet his administration has made some of the worst decisions in recent history.(Me: George Bush is not comparable to Sen. Clinton.)

Char-O: A person of uncommon intelligence. A graduate of two good schools. (Bypassed a lucrative job to help the people. (Me: LOL. Just what is that difference between the two candidates here?)

Char-O: Sen. Obama's legislative achievements are few, but that's no surprise. He's near the bottom in seniority. Republicans ran the Senate his first two years there,(Me: How many ears Clinton was there? How many years were run by Republicans?)

Char-O: He has made missteps…But in the campaign, as in the Senate, he has shown the ability to learn. (Me: What? This is not the time for a student as President of the United States.)

Char-O: Nominating Sen. Obama would send a powerful message to the world: The son of a white mother from Kansas and an absent father from Kenya. A personal story showing America is changing for the better. An appreciation of the need for international cooperation. (Me: Sen. Obama agrees with Sen. Clinton: again.)

Char-O: Many N.C. Democratic leaders recognize his strengths. Early in the campaign, Sen. Obama said, "We want a politics that reflects our best values. We want a politics that reflects our core decency, a politics that is based on a simple premise that we stand and fall together." (Me: And he agrees with Clinton -- again.) (Me: Power to the people. They do not need politicians to tell them how to vote.)

This is really an endorsement for the candidate who will be ready on Day One that somehow got the headline: We are endorsing Sen. Obama.

Thanks!

The News/Observer wont endorse!!! LMAO! what else would you expect! but they will after the primary...let me guess which party it will be.

What a raggedy newspaper with totally BIASED editors, columnists...operatives of the enemy within, the democrat party.