Surprise — the NYTimes has endorsed Obama. It’s a three-page summary of the case for the Senator from Illinois, but this is my favorite graf about McCain:

Mr. McCain, whom we chose as the best Republican nominee in the primaries, has spent the last coins of his reputation for principle and sound judgment to placate the limitless demands and narrow vision of the far-right wing. His righteous fury at being driven out of the 2000 primaries on a racist tide aimed at his adopted daughter has been replaced by a zealous embrace of those same win-at-all-costs tactics and tacticians.

It’s amazing to think how far Obama has come since this time last year, when the pundits all basically predicted that he would be merely a talented politician sharpening his claws for a later fight. I’ll be waiting with scarcely contained excitement for November 4th.