Madison (WI) Capital Times Endorses John F. Kerry for President

[WI_DEM]

America will survive Tuesday's presidential election, no matter who wins. This is a strong, good country with the wherewithal to withstand even the failures of our executives.

But an American election should not be about merely muddling through. Rather, it should be about charting the course for a nation that has a far grander capacity for greatness than is acknowledged by the gray, souless men who call themselves leaders but are, in truth, merely managers of a land diminished by their lack of vision. An American election should be about hope, and possiblity, and the fulfilling of the promise made by Jefferson and kept by Lincoln and Roosevelt and Kennedy that this experiment would forever be the "signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition has persauded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government."

It is our destiny in this election season to renew the promise of America, then the choice is absolutely and unequivocally clear. On Tuesday, we must elect John Kerry as the 44th president of the United States...

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=14877&ntpid=0

[Jacobin]

1. I would have expected them to

Madison was ground zero in the Vietnam protest days....or at least one of them

[WI_DEM]

2. We have two newspapers in town

The Cap Times is our progressive paper and the WI State Journal is our conservative paper--they will probably endorse Bush on Sunday.

[Weembo]

3. Quite eloquent!

Not one of those backhanded "I guess we have no choice" endorsements.