Bureau County Republican:
Few rival the challenges our country faces today. The economy is suffering. Every day, we hold our breath and watch wild fluctuations in our markets. Families are losing their homes and, worse, their hope. We are at war and face myriad uncertainties of how our actions abroad should be conducted.
A poll conducted in mid-October indicated only 7 percent of Americans had confidence that our nation’s leaders have this nation headed in the right direction. On Nov. 4, each of us will be presented an opportunity to ensure our nation’s future and to restore faith in our leadership.
To accomplish that end, Shaw Newspapers endorses the ticket of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
In these times, our nation demands a proven leader. McCain has the necessary experience to lead us now. He has been forthright and has challenged his own party on many issues. He is out front. During his 26 years in the Senate, he has displayed a high degree of integrity. This experience offers us a clear sense of how McCain will function and perform as president.
McCain has dedicated his life to serving our country, both in the military and in Congress. He is a war hero who has faced unimaginable hardship, meeting them with a mental strength that is incalculable. Few have displayed greater courage or fortitude. Our country faces a great number of challenges around the globe. Too many of our enemies are not open to negotiation. McCain’s strength in the world arena is unflagging.
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Kane County Chronicle has the same editorial as above.
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The Morris Daily Herald has the same editorial.
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Northwest Herald, ditto.
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Marietta Times has the same editorial as the Warren papers I posted yesterday.
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Enid News & Eagle:
Our next president needs to have more than quick, glib answers to the question of the day. Our next president needs experience and values that will lead him, and our nation, through the challenges ahead.
John McCain is the best choice to lead our nation.
McCain offers the depth of experience that will meet the challenges of today and the next four years. McCain seems to have a better grasp on the issues facing our nation, from the economy and energy policy, to national security and foreign relations, to health care and immigration.
McCain is a war hero with a lifetime of experience in public life. His opponent, Barack Obama, is an impressive speaker, intelligent and charismatic. But as a first-term senator, Obama lacks the experience needed when foreign powers and world events test our nation’s values and resolve. And have no doubt, we will be tested, and tested often. McCain is the best qualified to deal with the leaders of other world powers, both allies and dangerous enemies.
While Obama appears to seek an expanding federal government role in almost every issue that affects our lives, McCain has a track record of voting for generally less government and less spending. McCain’s judicial appointments would be more likely to interpret laws, rather than trying to remake them.
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Baker City Herald:
The two share a party affiliation, of course, but McCain strays far from the Bush line in several crucial issues.
McCain has been a vocal opponent of America’s policy of torturing enemy combatants in the war on terror, a tactic the Bush administration continues to defend.
The Obama campaign has emphasized McCain’s support for the war in Iraq as evidence of McCain’s blind allegiance to Bush’s policies, yet Obama seems incapable of acknowledging that those policies have led to successes as well as failures.
In particular we note the achievements of the “surge” that started earlier this year — an increase in the number of American troops in Iraq which McCain endorsed.
Obama, meanwhile, continued to insist as recently as mid-summer that the surge had failed.
More recently, in a television interview in early September, Obama conceded that the operation had “succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated” and “succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”
Well, maybe not “nobody.”
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Danville Register & Bee:
John McCain has every reason to quit. Giving up would simply remove him from an impossible situation where he has no hope of winning. Quitting isn’t a personal failure, just recognition of the proverbial facts on the ground.
That could have been said of McCain when he finished near the bottom of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy. Or when he was brutally and regularly beaten by his captors during the Vietnam War. Or when he took on his own party and entrenched Washington interests to fight for campaign finance and immigration reform. Or last summer, when everyone was sure his presidential campaign was dead.
Or now, when they’re saying the same thing.
Anyone who has watched John McCain over the years knows he is a fighter, a battle-scarred veteran of an ongoing struggle to do what he believes is right and best for his country, his party and his conscience.
We hope McCain doesn’t pay too much attention to the polls, and we hope the voters will take one last look at McCain.
Today, we endorse John McCain for president of the United States.
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