It's Official: BINEL Endorses Obama!

Knowing how influential my voice is on the blogosphere and appreciating how objective my blog has been thus far, after carefully considering all the candidates currently running to be the next (and my next) President, I enthusiastically endorse Barack Obama. He has a great and keen intellect, a deep-rooted sense of ethics, a brilliant way with words, a firm and deep grasp of our constitution, an honorable legislative record, and an ability to truly inspire Americans to come together. He excites the electorate-- and he excites me. He makes me feel proud to be an American. And that matters.

We need someone who can get things done, sure-- but not by eeking out the support of 50.01%. Obama has the potential to build a coalition of voters and policy makers to effect the change we so desperately need in our civil rights legislation, in our environmental regulations and in our economy. Experience matters, but only if one has the right experience, and has, for lack of a better phrase, done good. Working his way up from the bottom, fighting in the streets of Chicago, winning election to the state senate and powering his way to the United States Senate, Obama's story is innately American, the story of someone who comes from nothing and makes something of himself, on his own. We've just endured eight years of a President who got where he is by riding in on someone else's coattails; we don't need to suffer through that again.

We deserve a President of whom we can all be proud. I hope we have the fortitude and the foresight to elect Barack Obama the 44th President of the United States of America.