An Impressive Command: from SF Chronicle Endorsement

There are those who are attracted to Barack Obama's vision, but they are unsure of his command of substance. The San Francisco Chronicle editorial board grilled Obama on the issues, and this is part of what they said in today's
endorsement of Barack Obama:

"America deserves better than these cycles of vengeance and retribution. Its possibilities are too great, its challenges too daunting, for partisan pettiness. In a Jan. 17 meeting with our editorial board, Obama demonstrated an impressive command of a wide variety of issues. He listened intently to the questions. He responded with substance. He did not control a format without a stopwatch on answers or constraints on follow-up questions, yet he flourished in it.

He radiated the sense of possibility that has attracted the votes of independents and tapped into the idealism of young people during this campaign. He exuded the aura of a 46-year-old leader who could once again persuade the best and the brightest to forestall or pause their grand professional goals to serve in his administration.Of all the candidates who talk about change, Barack Obama has made the case most forcefully and most convincingly. He gets our endorsement for the Democratic nomination."

Obama was endorsed today also by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer.