Gainesville Sun endorses Obama

[CalGator]

My old hometown paper (I live in LA now, but am a Florida boy at heart) calls for change. :toast:
(not that it's any shock)

Americans are crying out for change, for a sense of hope, for positive leadership.

We believe John McCain is an honorable man who has served his country long and well. But over the course of this campaign, we have watched McCain forsake his familiar independent persona to embrace the Rovian politics that have so badly polarized America. And his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate - a politician wholly unprepared to lead the country should that become necessary - only further calls into question McCain's judgement.

We know that under the political status quo, hospitals are closing, schools and universities are chronically underfunded, financial institutions are going belly up and Americans are losing their homes and their jobs.

Turning all of that around will be the work of years. But it must begin with one inspired, and inspiring, leader.

A leader possessed of the courage of his convictions.

A leader who will eschew political dogma for the new politics of community and consensus building.

A leader who will speak to the world in a new, reassuring voice.

A leader who will speak to Americans from the heart.

A leader like Barack Obama.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20081026/OPINION01/810261007/1076/OPINION?Title=Obama_for_president