In a letter to our local paper, our moderate republican former senator from Minnesota ( http://en.wikipedia.org/... just wrote a letter to our local paper that sounds a lot like an Obama endorsement.
This local paper endorsed Bush in 2000 and 2004. This year they made "no endorsement"
Link here: http://www.twincities.com/...
Dave Durenberger writes a letter to the newspaper:
In what everyone agrees is one of the most significant elections of our
lifetime, I regret you have chosen not to endorse.
Our local PiPress is hiding in the bushes.
On June 4, the day he did the seemingly impossible and won the Democratic nomination from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama was in St. Paul. Some 35,000 Minnesotans lined our city's streets, with the help of our city's police force, and everyone I spoke to said they and their families were there "to be a part of history in the making" — not to bash Republicans.
So, Obama Good, uniting and positive presence.
On Sept. 4, the national Republican Party came to Minnesota to endorse John McCain, to bash Obama and to turn down our nationally esteemed governor as
McCain's running mate in favor of the neophyte governor of Alaska.
The Republican president, whom McCain supported strongly in Congress and in the
election of 2004, was not here, and of all the convention speakers, only Laura
Bush had kind things to say about him.
So, Republicans divisive & reckless
Gen. Colin Powell [endorsed] on Oct. 19. [Voters] will do so in the same record numbers at the polls as they did Feb. 5 at the St. Paul precinct caucuses, another "insight" I suggest you missed.
Dave thinks General Powell is a smart guy.