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.

Here's one of my favorite passages:

Mr. Obama is a man of supple intelligence, with a nuanced grasp of complex issues and evident skill at conciliation and consensus-building. At home, we believe, he would respond to the economic crisis with a healthy respect for markets tempered by justified dismay over rising inequality and an understanding of the need for focused regulation. Abroad, the best evidence suggests that he would seek to maintain U.S. leadership and engagement, continue the fight against terrorists, and wage vigorous diplomacy on behalf of U.S. values and interests. Mr. Obama has the potential to become a great president. Given the enormous problems he would confront from his first day in office, and the damage wrought over the past eight years, we would settle for very good.

Throughout the craziness of the Primaries and McCain's approach of one stunt after another, Obama presents us with intellect and rationality - in a word, Leadership.

And the sum it all up with this lovely description:

But Mr. Obama's temperament is unlike anything we've seen on the national stage in many years. He is deliberate but not indecisive; eloquent but a master of substance and detail; preternaturally confident but eager to hear opposing points of view. He has inspired millions of voters of diverse ages and races, no small thing in our often divided and cynical country. We think he is the right man for a perilous moment.

Yeah.  That's our man.  I am realizing that this is the first time since I became eligible to vote that I felt so thoroughly proud of my selection of the individual to lead this Country.  I understand that Obama will inevitably disillusion and fail to fulfill the ideals that many of us hold for him, but isn't it nice to believe in the good that our government can achieve again?