Chicago Sun-Times endorses Obama

Some of the best bits:

We like that this man of faith believes in something bigger than himself. He told the Sun-Times that he believes all people — Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists — know the same God.

“I am a Christian,” he told us. “I have a deep faith. I believe that there are many paths to the same place.”

He speaks powerfully of his faith and manages not to alienate nonbelievers. This man can get both votes.

Quite some trick.

Obama’s worldview is shaped by his multicultural upbringing. He was born in Hawaii in 1961 to a white mother from a Protestant family and a black father from Kenya. He grew up in Indonesia. This global heritage can go a long way toward repairing our image abroad, particularly in dealing with Islamic terrorism and national safety.

America would instantly gain credibility on the global stage, and that’s huge. Even a right-wing thinker like Andrew Sullivan put it this way:

“It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man — Barack Hussein Obama — is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm . . . a brown-skinned man whose father was an African . . . who attended a majority-Muslim school, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.”

Click HERE to read the entire Sun-Times endorsement editorial.

Click HERE to read the Chicago Tribune‘s endorsement of Obama from Sunday, Jan. 27.