Consider this: Rolling Stone, a young readers’ bible, has been endorsing candidates for president for 36 years, but never have they endorsed one during the primary season.
The magazine endorses Barack Obama for president in its upcoming issue.
The cover features the Illinois senator, and the headline “Barack Obama: A New Hope.”
The publisher, Jann S. Wenner, states:
The tides of history are rising higher and faster these days. Read them right and ride them, or be crushed.
And then along comes Barack Obama, with the kinds of gifts that appear in politics but once every few generations.
There is a sense of dignity, even majesty, about him, and underneath that ease lies a resolute discipline.
It’s not just that he is eloquent — with that ability to speak both to you and to speak for you — it’s that he has a quality of thinking and intellectual and emotional honesty that is extraordinary.