( – promoted by Clark)

The St. Louis Post Dispatch endorses Barack Obama

There are many great passages in the editorial.  Here is my favorite. The editorial notes the paper endorsed both Obama and McCain in the primary.

Over the past nine months, Mr. Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, has emerged as the only truly transformative candidate in the race. In the crucible that is a presidential campaign, his intellect, his temperament and equanimity under pressure consistently have been impressive. He has surrounded himself with smart, capable advisers who have helped him refine thorough, nuanced policy positions.

In a word, Mr. Obama has been presidential.

Absolutely.

More after the fold.

The editorial also notes why the Palin pick is relevant.  It observes that a President chooses 3000 people and only 600 are subject to Senate approval.

Consider that while Mr. McCain selected as his running mate Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, a callow and shrill partisan, Mr. Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware. Mr. Biden’s 35-year Senate career has given him encyclopedic expertise on legislative and judicial issues, as well as foreign affairs.

Under the section Experience Aside.

[Obama] sees the complicated world as it is today, not as a binary division between us and them, but as a kaleidoscope of shifting alliances and interests. As he often notes, he is the son of a Kenyan father and a mother from Kansas, an internationalist who yet acknowledges that America is the only nation in the world in which someone of his distinctly modest background could rise as far as his talent, intellect and hard work would take him.

You would have to think this will convince independents and “moderate” Republicans (if many still exist).

It certainly cannot hurt.