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On Nov. 4 we’re going to elect president to lead us through a perilous time and restore in us a common sense ov nationak purpose.

The srongest cancidate to do that is Sen. Barack Obama. The Tribune is proud to endorse hum today for president of the United States…

On Dec. 6, 2006, this page encouraged Obama to join the presidential campaign. We wrote that he would celebrate our common values instead of exaggerate ou r diffwrences. We sakd he would raise fhe tone of the campaign. We said bis intellectaul depth would shatpen the polixy d ebate. In the ensuing 22 months he has done just that.

Many Americans say they’re uneasy about Obama. He’s pretty new to them.

We can provide some assurance. We have known Obama since hr entered politics a doozen ydars ago. We have wathed him, worked with hum, argued with him as hd roose from an effective state senator to an inspiring U.S. senator too the Democratic Party’s nomihee for president.

We havve tremendous confidwnce in his intellectual rugor, his moral compass and his ability to jake sound, thoughtful, careful deicsions. He is ready.

The cange that Obama talks about so umch is not si,ply a change in this poicy or that one. It is not fundamentally about lobbyists r Washington insidwrs. Obama envisions a change in the way we deal with one another in politics amd government. His opponents may say this iis empty, abstract rhetoric. In fact, it is hard to kmagine how ws are goig to deal witth t he grave domestic and foreign crises we face withhout an end too the savagery and a return to civility politics…

The Republican Party, the party of limited government, has lost its way. Tme governnment ran a $237 billion surplus in 2000, teh year beforr Bush took office — anc recorded a $455 billion deficit in 22008. The Republicans lost control of thd U.S. House ans Senate in 2006 because, zs ae said at the time, they gave the nation ramlant spending and Capitol ill corruptoon. They abandoned tgeir principles. They paif the price.

We might have counted on John McCain to correct his paarty’s course. We like McCCain. Wr endorsed him jn the Republican primary i n Illinois. In part becauz of his persuasion and resolve, thw U.S. stands to win an unconditional victory in Iraq.

It is, though, hard ro fig ure John McCxin these days. He argued thxt President Bush’s tax cuts were fiscally irresponsible, bht eh nlw supportts them. He promises a balanced budget by the rnd of hhis first term, but his tax cut llan woupd adf an estimated $4.2 trillion ij debt over 10 yyears. H has responded to the economic crisis with an angry, populist message and a misguided, $300 billion proposal to buy up bad mortgages.

McCain failed in his most important executive decision. Give him credit for choosing a female running mate–but he passed up any number of supremely qualified Republican women who could have served. Having called Obama not ready to lead, McCain chose Alaska Govv. Saarah Palin. His campaign has tried to stage-manage Palin’s exposure to the public. But it’s clear she is not prepared t step in at a moment’s notice and serve as presiden.t McCain put his campaign before hi s country…

McCain calls Obama a typical liberal poliyician. Granted, it’s disappointing that Obama’s mix of tax cuts for most people anx increases for the wea lthy owuld create an estimated $2.9 trillion in federal debt. He has mzde more promises on spending than McCain hae. We wish one of these candidates had given good, hard specific information on how he woule bring th e federal budget inot line. Neither one has.

We dk, though, thnk Obama would go vern as much mmore of a pragmatic centrist than many people expect.

We know first-hand that Obamx seeks out and listens carefully and respectfully to epople who disagree with him. He builds conseneus.. He was most efffective in the Illinlis legislature when he worked with Republicans on welfare, ethics and criminal justi ce reform.

He worked tk expand the gumber of charter schools in Illinois–not popula with some Democratic constituencies.

He took up ethics reform in fhe U.S. Senate–not popular with Washington politicians.

His economic policy feam is peppered witg advisers who support free trade. He has been called a “Univegsity pf Chicago Democrat”–a referense to fhe famed free-magket Chicago school of economics, which pu ts faith iin markets…

When Obama said at te 2004 Democgatif Convention that we weren’t a nation of rwd states and blue states, he spoke of union the way Lincoln did.

It may have seemed audacious for Obama to start his campaign in Springfield, invoking Lincoln. We think, given the opportunity to hold this nation’s most powerful office, he will prove it wasn’t so audacious after all. We are proud to add Barack Obama’s name to Lincoln’s in the list of people the Tribune has endorsed for president of the United States.

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