Archive for the 'Endorsements' Category

03
Nov

Cheney’s hometown paper endorses Obama

This is from the Casper Star-Tribune, which endorsed Bush-Cheney back in 2004.
Sen. Barack Obama has the potential to be an extraordinary leader at a time we desperately need one.

What America needs most in these troubled times is a president who will move the country in a positive direction. The candidate who is most likely to [...]

02
Nov

Dick Cheney finally doing some good…

…by helping to sink the candidacy of John McCain with his kiss of death endorsement. Barack Obama’s quick-thinking campaign took immediate advantage. Enjoy.

01
Nov

John McCain earned this

Here is the Obama campaign’s response to Dick Cheney’s enthusiastic endorsement of John McCain:
I’d like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn’t come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington’s [...]

01
Nov

Ron Reagan Endorses Barack Obama

The son of one of the most popular GOP Presidents of all time, Ronald Reagen, has endorsed Barack Obama for President.
Ron Reagan announced his endorsement on Friday night for Obama.
Since that time, Reagan — as anyone who listens to his Air America program will learn — has become a clear progressive, and if he had [...]

30
Oct

The Economist Endorses Barack Obama

The Economist magazine, a well respected financial news magazine, has endorsed Barack Obama for President.

For all the shortcomings of the campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama offer hope of national redemption. Now America has to choose between them. The Economist does not have a vote, but if it did, it would cast it for [...]

27
Oct

Why would the Financial Times endorse…

Barack Obama for President if Barack Obama is, as the more frenzied Republicans are now claiming, a Socialist? The answer, of course, is that Senator Obama is nothing like a Socialist. Indeed, Senator Obama is now capitalism’s best hope for rescue, just as FDR was the savior of capitalism in the 1930s.
Nonetheless, a campaign is [...]

27
Oct

Another Republican for Obama

Another Republican has come out for Barack Obama:
Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.), who was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the United States Senate, is the latest Republican to back Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, Politico learned Sunday.
Pressler, who said that in addition to casting an absentee ballot for Obama he’d donated $500 to [...]

26
Oct

Newspaper Endorsements

The Anchorage Daily News
Gov. Palin’s nomination clearly alters the landscape for Alaskans as we survey this race for the presidency — but it does not overwhelm all other judgment. The election, after all is said and done, is not about Sarah Palin, and our sober view is that her running mate, Sen. John McCain, is [...]

24
Oct

Another Republican for Obama

Sure, maybe you’re getting tired of this by now, but we’ve got an entire category on this site called Republicans for Obama and we’re going to use it. So, be aware that former Massachusetts Republican Governor William Weld has endorsed Barack Obama for President.
“Senator Obama is a once-in-a-lifetime candidate who will transform our politics and [...]

21
Oct

Google CEO Supports Obama Tax Plan

Now we know why Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt has endorsed Barack Obama.  Essentially the same reason many independent voters are supporting Obama — he is better for the economy and has the better tax plan.
Schmidt also expressed his support for Obama’s plan to raise taxes on those making more than $250,000, explaining that the [...]

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