Dick Cheney's Hometown Paper Endorses Obama Today

[tekisui]

NEW YORK For the past six weeks, we have chronicled the landslide in newspaper endorsements for Barack Obama (our new daily will be ready in a short bit here). Included in this have been well over 50 daily papers that have switched from backing Bush in 2004 to supporting Obama this year. Then there are the embarrassments such as the largest paper in Alaska, The Anchorage Daily Times, also endorsing Obama.

Now comes another signal: This morning, Dick Cheney's hometown paper in Wyoming, the Casper Star-Tribune, switched to Obama.

Yes, we said the Casper Star-Tribune, not the Minneaspolis Star Tribune.

Just this past Saturday, Cheney campaigned in Casper for three local Republicans and John McCain. A video of his McCain endorsement was then distributed by the Obama campaign.

Here is a revealing excerpt from the newspaper editorial supporting Obama. Once again, a key factor in the GOP defections: McCain showing "poor judgement" in picking Sarah Palin.
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It is a foregone conclusion that Wyoming's three electoral votes will go to Sen. John McCain. It would be easy for the Star-Tribune to simply agree with the majority of voters in this red state and endorse the Republican candidate for president.

But this isn't an ordinary election, and Sen. Barack Obama has the potential to be an extraordinary leader at a time we desperately need one. The next occupant of the White House will inherit a national economy that's collapsing and two wars our nation has been fighting for years, depleting valuable resources we need to fix a multitude of domestic problems. Far too many of our nation's citizens live paycheck to paycheck, worried about whether they'll have a job next week or if a medical crisis will bankrupt them.

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 chart a new course that will lead us to better days is Obama. Moreover, he is the best candidate for Wyoming ...

more... http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003886344

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Dick doesn't really live in WY

He still lives in TX, breaking the Constitution (as usual)

[Double T]

2. Looks like the rethugs have burned most of their bridges.

All the rethugs have left are rush listening ditto dunderheads.

[TransitJohn]

3. Hey!

I posted the endorsement this morning!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7720855&mesg_id=7720855

[tekisui]

4. Oops! I missed it.

:hi:

[TransitJohn]

5. It's no problem!

Just trying to point some people to the endorsement itself....my threads always sink like a stone.
:hi:

[Cha]

6. Rec'd! Worth another

look.