Deciding to agree to disagree, Indianapolis Star, Oct26, 2008.
It’s a strange year. Were I asked by the man in the moon to describe the political leanings of our country, I’d say Americans were center-right. Yet we’ve had nearly two terms of a frustrating and until recently ill-prosecuted conflict in Iraq, economic troubles and widespread criticism from abroad. We’ve seen a level of White House arrogance that has troubled even some Republicans. That’s why many Americans seem willing to forgo their center-right tendencies to consider the case of a liberal and little-tested African-American U.S. senator from Chicago.
For The Star’s editorial board, with its history of mostly right-of-center positions and our desire to maintain consistency without being outwardly partisan, it became a tough and in the end extraordinarily difficult choice.
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