What Does It Say?

by Andrew Tobias

ANOTHER LIFELONG REPUBLICAN FOR OBAMA

 

What does it say to moderate Republicans that Colin Powell joins Susan Eisenhower, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and such other lifelong Republican voters as William F. Buckley Jr. scion Chris Buckley, and former National Review publisher Wick Allison, in endorsing Senator Obama?

 

Can the case really be made, with endorsements by superbly thoughtful people like Warren Buffett and former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker that Senator Obama is a radical socialist who "pals around with terrorists?"

 

What does it say about the McCain/Palin candidacy that this is how they're trying to win?

 

What does it say when lifelong Republican CEOs like Lennar's Stuart Miller have switched to Obama?  (Lennar is the nation's largest home builder.)

 

When the Chicago Tribune endorses a Democrat for the first time in 161 years?

 

Writing, in small part:

 

Many Americans say they're uneasy about Obama. He's pretty new to them.

We can provide some assurance. We have known Obama since he entered politics a dozen years ago. We have watched him, worked with him, argued with him as he rose from an effective state senator to an inspiring U.S. senator to the Democratic Party's nominee for president.

We have tremendous confidence in his intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions. He is ready.

 

http://www.andrewtobias.com/newcolumns/081020.html

Sphere: Related Content