There are 10 new endorsements for McCain:
North County Times:
We strongly urge the election of John McCain for president of the United States as the best choice between two flawed candidates.
In making this recommendation, we are mindful and proud of the fact that should the electorate choose Barack Obama, the selection of a black man to lead the nation is both historic and thrilling. But race is no reason to vote for a man.
The reasons to support John McCain:
He is an experienced leader, particularly in foreign policy matters.
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The Omaha World Herald endorsed McCain, but I cannot find the endorsement on its website. It may be only in the print edition.
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The same is true for the Champaign News-Gazette.
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Marshalltown Times Republican (I think this is the endorsement, and if not, it's the closest thing to it):
Some of Sen. John McCain's fellow Republicans may have grimaced a bit at part of his speech as he accepted the party's nomination for president earlier this month. McCain wasn't exactly easy on either the GOP or Democrats.
"We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us," McCain said of office holders of both parties.
He's right.
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Sioux City Journal:
Eager for a propaganda boost, John McCain's North Vietnamese torturers offered the downed, badly injured and beaten Navy pilot - a high-profile grandson and son of admirals whose father was commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific - early repatriation in 1968. He turned them down, and he paid a heavy price for his refusal during another five years as a prisoner of war.
That well-chronicled story speaks volumes about McCain the man - his leadership, his patriotism, his commitment to duty and honor, his courage and resolve, his ability to persevere during the toughest of times, his inherent sense of what's right and what's wrong. He personifies much of what's good about America.
He isn't perfect, no one is, but through his military experience and more than a quarter century of accomplished service in the United States House and Senate, McCain has earned widespread respect and trust as an honest man of integrity who loves his country and who works with both Republicans and Democrats to make it better.
Today the Journal endorses the candidacy of McCain to be the next president of the United States.
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The Bowling Green Daily News picked McCain, but I can't find the article.
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Worthington Daily Globe (which I think is a duplicate from another paper, but I'll put it here anyway):
John McCain is not the perfect presidential candidate. But he’s a better choice than Barack Obama.
McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona, embodies traditional conservative values, a streak of independence and the depth of experience that qualify him for the Oval Office. At a time when the nation faces extraordinarily difficult challenges at home and abroad, Americans should not put a rookie in the highest office in the land.
Obama, with not even a full term as a Democratic senator from Illinois, is a rookie. He’s articulate, charismatic and intelligent, but he’s not experienced. His domestic policy tilts socialistically toward unprecedented government control of almost every aspect of American life. His programs, if implemented, would plunge the nation into a deeper economic hole.
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The Norfolk Daily News doesn't have anything online, either, that I can find.
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Knoxille News Sentinel:
The importance of maintaining the checks and balances of divided government is, in the end, the best argument for John McCain, and it is on this basis that he receives our endorsement. McCain, if he shakes loose the party shackles at the end of the campaign and fills the White House with his fierce independent spirit, can be a president that begins to bring this nation together. He will be forced to work in a bipartisan government, and that is what America needs now more than anything.
Given his age and health, McCain may very well be a one-term president, and we sincerely hope that Palin is the quick study she is said to be if, for some reason, McCain's presidency is cut short. She has much to learn. Still, we trust that McCain's presidency will be a full and vigorous one and will go down in history as a time in which a divided America began to learn to bridge its differences and attack together the daunting problems it faced.
McCain is a genuine American hero. He can be a great American leader. His maverick Republicanism mirrors well the spirit of East Tennessee. He has served his country throughout his life, and he will do it proud as president of the United States.
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New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung:
However, the Republican Party does not really deserve four more years with the presidency. McCain’s selection of a running mate who we might identify with as someone who hunted and fished with her dad does not really reflect a good choice for a vice presidential candidate who is a 71-year-old’s heartbeat from becoming president.
Obama does represent a new era. If elected, he is the first grandchild of a World War II veteran to become president, without even addressing the fact he is the first African-American. What will be delivered on election day is whether this generational shift in leadership happens now.
We endorse John McCain.
If readers can find these editorials I couldn't find, I'd appreciate any links.
2 comments:
Thanks for posting these all in one place. With so much media being for Obama, it is refreshing to see that not all are buying in to the hype. I was a McCain supporter in 2000. I am less enthused this time around, but an imperfect conservative still gives us some chance to maintain what we have left of the American ideal as outlined by the Founding Fathers. It's an ideal that brought so many of us to this country (I'm from Canada) and it seems a shame the media and the liberal establishment want such whole-cloth change instead of corrections and improvements to a system that was so brilliantly conceived and allowed this nation to inspire the rest of the world.
You're quite welcome, Robert. Editor & Publisher is keeping track by asking readers to supply them with the endorsements, but it is only here ALL of the newspaper endorsements are linked and excerpted where available.
The links will die in a matter of days, but the excerpts are handy for future reference.
I have been putting the smaller papers' links on my links blog for future reference. There are literally hundreds of papers.
I will have more each day until the election.
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