Despite having less than favorable coverage of Obama since the primaries, WaPo has finally thrown in the towel and backs Obama for President.  While there are a couple of points that many of us would quibble with, overall their observations of Obama's suitability for the Office of President would earn a round of applause and hearty Huzzah from this audience.

Here's the full article:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603436.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Samples of the text after the jump.

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Found this hilarious exchange via Balloon Juice.  Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi in an Instant Message debate at nymag.com with Bryan York from the National Review are discussing, "the headwinds facing McCain, what Phil Gramm had to do with the financial crisis, and the importance of credit default swaps."  York tries to blame the Wall Street meltdown on Fannie and Freddie.  Taibbi asks York if he even knows what a CDS (credit default swap) is and how it works.  York tries to deflect the question, Taibbi comes back at him.  No answer, crickets chirping, it's all live, huge embarrassment for the conservative know-nothing journalist parroting GOP talking points without sufficient understanding to back it up when challenged.

So fun!  Here's a clip:

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