Two leading Pennsylvania newspapers go for Obama.
The (Scranton) Times Tribune endorses Obama:
For Pennsylvania Democrats, the best answer in the April 22 primary is Barack Obama.
The (Allentown) Morning Call says:
Sen. Obama offers that vision to a nation that, like President Lincoln’s, is divided.
It is not about to set out on a literal civil war, but Republican and Democrat, young and old, conservative and liberal have much to fight about and are at each other’s throats with little provocation.
Finding common ground is the key, and Sen. Obama is better able to do that than Sen. Clinton.
She has become a polarizing figure, an image that stems in part from the bitter partisanship of Washington during President Bill Clinton’s administration.
It was not for nothing that the journalist James B. Stewart called his book about the politics of those years ”Blood Sport.”
That rancor was not primarily Hillary Clinton’s fault, but it is real, it persists, and her campaign so far has not dealt effectively with quelling it.
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