A New Kind of Leader
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Democratic Endorsement
February 5, 2008 - 1:00amYou may or may not agree with the endorsements on this site, but we hope that regardless of your political inclinations you make your voice heard. Get out and VOTE!
Our friends at The Yale Daily News have already touched on this, but there’s something to be said for electing a non-Yalie to the White House after exactly 20 years of Bulldog dominance. George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush both earned their undergraduate degrees at Yale, and both Bill and Hillary Clinton went to Yale Law. Though we’d love for Big Red representation in the Oval Office someday, we’ll settle for Columbia and Harvard this time around.
But there’s a lot more to being president than pedigree. Character, charisma and inspiration — even under the most dire of circumstances — are essential qualities to lead our nation forward, especially in this era of political and economic uncertainty. Though both of the leading Democratic candidates have a track record of experience and unsurpassed leadership, Barack Obama has a certain aura about him — that indescribable quality that perked up so many ears back at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
We’re not supporting Obama simply because he is the closest thing to a “rock star.” Both leading Democratic candidates have pledged to reform U.S. foreign policy, the American educational system and a host of other issues that the youth care about. With the two leading Democratic candidates so closely aligned on many major issues, the question then becomes who do we want to be the face of our nation?
On Sept. 11, millions of people around the world stood strong with the United States. Since then, the country has fallen from favor in countries of every color, size, shape and religion. We believe that Obama has the talent, personality and skill not only to unite our own 50 states (and D.C., American Samoa, Puerto Rico and Guam) but also to bring people all over the world together.
Obama speaks directly to the youth vote in a way that has not been since John F. Kennedy — he has won the youth vote (people between 18 and 29) in every delegate-deciding primary or caucus thus far. But Obama has attracted the admiration of political veterans as well, earning the support of the second-longest serving senator, Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.).
They say young people don’t vote, or don’t care, or whatever, and if they’re right and we don’t care, we think it’s because we’re rightfully sick and tired of the whole process, of politicians who pretend to be things they’re not or undermine their values and our interests just to get votes.
Barack speaks to a different kind of leadership — one that is unafraid of being honest, hopeful and hardworking in the best interests of our country.
Click here to read The Sun's Republican Endorsement
If Obama has a "track record
If Obama has a "track record of experience and leadership", then I'm the next king of Afghanistan. He wants to hold a summit meeting with the world's Muslim countries to hear their "concerns". For most of those countries, their only concerns are how to maintain a feudal, dictatorial system that will keep the ruling classes in power and how to destroy Israel in the shortest possible amount of time. Hillary Clinton is far from a bargain, but she does have a certain degree of reality about her. Obama is clueless. If he were to be elected president, Putin, Ahmedinijad and others would sit around licking their lips in anticipation of what they could get away with.