Republicans love to mock Obama's history as a community organizer. But here was a man with no money to offer, no patronage to dispense, no way to punish his opponents. All he could do was to work with people from all walks of life, liberals and conservatives, business people and the unemployed, and bring them together in common cause for a better community. Could there really be better preparation to reunite a worried and divided America to again pursue our "more perfect union"?

The Post seems a little obsessed with Mitt Romney. True, he won the Republican caucuses here 66% to McCain's 33%. But, is this necessary?

Why not ask Romney to chair [Obama's] health-care reform task force, or even serve as his economic recovery "czar"?

The Post examines Obama's record on bipartisanship and finds it...in his community organizing. In answering its own suggestion that Romney should be recruited by Obama, it says.

What's the chance that Obama will reach out in such a bipartisan fashion? Actually, he has a long record of doing exactly that. We don't mean his brief tenure in the Senate so much as his successful run as a community organizer in Chicago.

In closing, the Post cites Christopher Buckley:

As novelist Christopher Buckley said in endorsing Obama, the Illinois senator "has a first-rate intellect and a first-rate temperament."

The Post also includes an interesting take on how Obama and McCain became the nominees over Hillary and Mitt Romney:

When the first, absurdly early straw polls were taken in Iowa in 2007, America was torn by a war in Iraq that seemed unwinnable. But the economy seemed reasonably sound.

That preoccupation with the war may help explain why Republicans passed over Mitt Romney's successful record of job creation in favor of war hero and foreign-policy specialist John McCain. On the Democratic side, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who wasn't even in Congress when the war began, bested Sen. Hillary Clinton in part because she voted to authorize the war.

Not a word about the vice-presidential choices. A bizarre endorsement, if you ask me. Down to the last line,

With the help and prayers of the American people, we believe those talents can also make Barack Obama a great president.

The Post won't say he will make a great President, only that he has the potential to be a great President.

The Post endorsed George Bush in 2004 and Romney and Hillary in the 2008 Democratic primaries.

Shorter Post version: It's Obama, by a Wing and a Prayer. Romney would be the best choice but he wasn't nominated, McCain is the worst choice, therefore we'll go with Obama and keep our fingers crossed.

Update: Obama has 50 major newspaper endorsements to McCain's 16.