The Guardian endorsement of Barack Obama

[mindem]

A new leader for a new era

The US stands on the threshold of the new era it needs.

Americans should elect Barack Obama as their president

"Every United States presidential election is important. Most of them provide dramatic political theatre. All of them are compulsively watched by the rest of the world. The election of 2008, however, is a record-breaker in all departments. It is important because it comes at the end of George Bush's calamitous two terms and amid such economic turmoil. It is memorable because it has involved so many ground-breaking candidates and long campaigns on both sides. And it has been watched and experienced by the world as no American election has been before. Not since the Kennedy era has such a contest resonated so potently with so many people in America and beyond, including in this country. But the circumstances of this year's contest, the character of the protagonists and the immediacy of the internet age combine to mean that the 2008 election is likely to make a defining statement about America for this global generation that may eclipse even the impact of the contest of 1960."

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/01/elections-obama-mccain-usa-bush>

[Mme. Defarge]

1. It made me cry.

I believe that Obama will truly be the world's president -- we can't let it down.

[Mojorabbit]

2. What a wonderful endorsement! nt