The Las Vegas Sun endorses Obama

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Of special interest to Nevadans are the candidates’ views on the Yucca Mountain project.

If you liked George Bush, who made the decision to make Yucca Mountain the nation’s high-level nuclear waste dump, just 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, then you’ll love McCain.

McCain can be counted on to tout his enthusiastic support for nuclear power and, with it, his gung-ho support for the Yucca Mountain project. He has voted for it previously and has supported it wholeheartedly on the campaign trail.

In contrast, Obama is opposed to Yucca Mountain — he doesn’t believe it is either safe or smart — and that opposition is critical now. The next president may be the only person who can stop the radioactive trucks and trains from coming to Nevada.

Last, it also is instructive how both Obama and McCain have run their campaigns. McCain has been erratic while Obama has displayed a cool confidence despite the McCain campaign’s efforts to rattle him with over-the-top negative attacks.

With respect to being erratic, last month McCain decided to temporarily suspend his campaign and go back to Washington, ostensibly to help bring about a compromise on a financial bailout bill Congress was working on.

All that did, however, was increase the partisan divisions on the legislation and help lead House Republicans to derail the budding compromise. It wasn’t until after McCain left Washington, and took his traveling circus with him, that Congress was able to fashion an agreement with the president. In many ways, McCain’s failed stunt came to symbolize his campaign.