News' View: Obama for president
The 131st Managing Board of the Yale Daily News endorses Senator Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, to be the 44th president of the United States of America.
Forty years ago today, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. ’49 DIV ’56 stood in Battell Chapel to address students about the upcoming presidential election. An unpopular and ill-conceived war raged overseas. Strife and division reigned at home.
“We try to play God in the world,” Coffin told students. “We must accept the guilt and shame of our Vietnam blunder before we can be humanized and act internationally with wisdom.”
The longtime University chaplain was speaking about another war in another era, but his message still resonates today.
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By Eamon M.
12:38p.m. on November 7, 2008
this was longer than the NYtimes endorsement of Obama.
Say what you will about Obama, but I don't know anyone who agrees that he will lead us to "humility."