Obama for president
In the tradition of election hyperbole, with this election goes the future of America. We suspect that both candidates, as is typical, will adequately address only a handful of the issues on which they campaign. Yet we are approaching a time when circumstances will force the next president, whoever he is, to act. As an editorial board that had plenty of John McCain supporters, a Naderite and a few people who were fed up with both candidates we decided that the next president of the United States should be Barack Obama. Obama is one of the least experienced candidates to recently run for president. He has a tendency to exaggerate his legislative accomplishments and has little record of standing up to his own party. Still, Obama managed a campaign that beat out, in the form of Hillary Clinton, one of the biggest front-runners in history, and he has surrounded himself with some very smart (and non-ideological) foreign policy and economic advisors. Barack Obama talks a lot about change. In some areas we certainly deserve nothing less.
