obama endosement?

The Indianapolis Star today endorsed Barack Obama for office. No big deal because the editor of the Star, T. Garrett Benjamin, is a long time liberal and supporter of R.F. Kennedy. That goes back to '68 for you youngsters. A counter letter to the editor was written by J. Wesley Hertel, a divinity school classmate of Benjamin who had supported Obama in the Indiana primaries but has now changed his mind and is supporting McCain for three reasons. I found his thinking quite compelling in it's simplicity: (1) Values-On the issue of abortion Obama had mentioned that the concept of when life begins was above his pay grade. Hertel takes grave offense at this by saying, "it is a federal offense in the United States to destroy the egg from a Bald Eagle. If the egg of a human is not valued as much as a bird then what is? Jamming scissors into the back of the skull of a nearly exposed baby is more than horrible it's just plain cold; (2) Judgement- the associatons of Obama over the years speak for itself: (3) Vision-If what Obama is promoting is not socialism then the word has lost it's meaning.