I, Ignatio Fairfax, editor of EarlWoodman.com, am announcing today that I am endorsing Senator Barack Obama in the upcoming US election. (Note that my opinion is not necessarily that of EarlWoodman.com).

In reaching this decision, I would like to direct your attention to Obama’s recent race speech, and in particular, the following excerpt:

The fact is that the comments [of Geraldine Ferraro and Reverend Wright] that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through - a part of our union that we have yet to perfect. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges…

Obama is not a perfect candidate, and he was not my pick at the beginning of the primaries. However, his ability to directly address the issue of racism without actually playing the race card is mature and commendable.

His platform of ‘change’ was not something that I understood at first. I had assumed that by change, he was intending to fix the problems created by his predecessor. But it appears that Obama is not even referring to Bush. He is focused on continued perfection of the constitution, an exercise in nation building that he feels, rightly so, is dangerously incomplete. Hillary Clinton and John McCain are wholly uninspiring in their myopic visions and pedestrian intents.