Susan Eisenhower Endorses Barack Obama

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Susan Eisenhower, the grand-daughter of former President Dwight Eisenhower and a life-long Republican, is endorsing Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States.  She wrote an op-ed piece in today’s Washington Post detailing her decision to support Barack.

I am convinced that Barack Obama is the one presidential candidate today who can encourage ordinary Americans to stand straight again; he is a man who can salve our national wounds and both inspire and pursue genuine bipartisan cooperation. Just as important, Obama can assure the world and Americans that this great nation’s impulses are still free, open, fair and broad-minded.

It is in this great tradition of crossover voters that I support Barack Obama’s candidacy for president. If the Democratic Party chooses Obama as its candidate, this lifelong Republican will work to get him elected and encourage him to seek strategic solutions to meet America’s greatest challenges. To be successful, our president will need bipartisan help.

For someone as novice as Ms. Eisenhower, she comes off sounding extremely naive.  Perhaps she is just wanting a bit of attention these days.  She wouldn’t be getting nearly the press if she had announced she was endorsing John McCain or Mitt Romney.

If she really thinks the most liberal Senator in the Senate can be a uniter and bridge all of the partisanship in D.C. then she’s delusional.  Barack is very charismatic and a great speaker.  But his track record of Senate voting and beliefs is not going to unite nearly enough on the right.

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February 2, 2008 | Filed Under 2008 Presidential Election, barack obama 

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