(Community Matters) This endorsement is huge. My sister has lived in Pensacola for over 25 years, and I’ve traveled there with some frequency during this quarter century. There’s a reason it is called the redneck Riviera.
About three weeks ago, Bridget (my sister who works in accounting in Pensacola’s special events center) called to tell me people had waited in line for 9 hours to see Sarah Palin. She says she’d never seen anything like it. This weekend while we were in Sealy, she described the enthusiasm with which folks greeted Michelle Obama. There were too many people around for me to compare and contrast with Palin, but the message was clear. Michelle was also a rock star in this traditionally very conservative community which includes a huge airforce base.
Now, their daily endorses Barack.
Obama has attracted some of the country’s brightest minds, including investor Warren Buffett, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Paul Volcker, who was reappointed as chairman of the Federal Reserve by Ronald Reagan. McCain populated his campaign with Washington lobbyists.
McCain then raised questions about his judgment in his selection of an unqualified running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who, while energizing the “base,” has been a flop with most voters outside of what she recklessly calls the “pro-American” parts of our country.
And so we ask: Where is the McCain who warned that President Bush’s tax cuts, without spending cuts, risked creating the deficits that followed? He now embraces them. Where is the McCain who once spoke with authority and reason on immigration reform?
“We do not torture,” John McCain famously, and courageously, said. But he now supports a presidential veto of an anti-torture law.
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