The New Yorker makes a remarkable case for Obama in their editorial this week, pulling together in one piece nearly every issue that has arisen during this incredibly long presidential campaign. They compare Obama and McCain point by point, methodically and fairly. (As my brother pointed out, it has Hendrik Hertzberg written all over it.) So now… if we could get everyone who’s on the fence to read this, to understand the urgency of a new approach and the accountability that the Republican party MUST ASSUME for the state of our country, then we just may be on the road to progress. Here’s an excerpt from the powerful concluding paragraph:

We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy. So much of the Presidency, as they say, is a matter of waking up in the morning and trying to drink from a fire hydrant. In the quiet of the Oval Office, the noise of immediate demands can be deafening. And yet Obama has precisely the temperament to shut out the noise when necessary and concentrate on the essential. The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.

Read the full editorial HERE.