Iowa City Press-Citizen: Obama has what it takes to restore nation's integrity

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After seven years of being lost in the wilderness of oppositional presidential politics, Democrats now seem well positioned to do in 2008 what they failed to do in 2004: Replace a rogue cowboy president with a new president capable of uniting the country and resetting the nation's foreign policy and global reputation. The Press-Citizen Editorial Board thinks Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is the best candidate in a well qualified field of Democrats to make those long overdue changes. We endorse his candidacy enthusiastically.

In the past few months, Iowa City area voters have had multiple opportunities to learn about the strengths of each of Obama's Democratic rivals:

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But the more Biden, Dodd and Clinton draw upon their experience in the internecine personal battles within Washington or between world leaders, the more voters identify them with the broken political system in which they have gained their experience. And the more Richardson and Edwards lay claim to an outsider status, the more they risk having their call for change get lost in their rhetoric -- which is what seems to have happened especially to Edwards in this campaign.

Obama stands tall among this already strong group as both the candidate of hope and the candidate of change we can believe in.

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