Fox News, bless their weasely little hearts, reports:

"Barack Obama racked up two key newspaper endorsements this week — one from South Carolina's largest paper, the other from rival Hillary Clinton's backyard.

South Carolina's The State endorsed Obama for Saturday's Democratic primary Tuesday, calling the Illinois senator "a groundbreaking nominee" and the best candidate to unite the country and repair America's reputation around the world.

"Sen. Obama is the only Democrat who plausibly can say that he wants to work with Americans across the political spectrum," The (Columbia) State said on its Web site.

Then on Wednesday The New York Observer backed Obama over Clinton, a New York senator.

"New Yorkers might ask why they should not pull a lever for our junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton. While Mrs. Clinton is an extraordinary United States senator for New York, we believe that Mr. Obama can be a great president for the United States of America," the paper wrote. "Most of the other candidates have absorbed, assimilated or appropriated Mr. Obama's issue of change. It is a powerful concept. But a great deal of the argument for Mr. Obama's candidacy is about one great issue in American life: restoring and reinvigorating American democracy."

Click here to read The New York Observer's endorsement.

The paper said Obama would be the most" formidable" Democrat in the general election, and that "It is difficult to remember the last national candidate who has charged and jazzed the democratic system as Mr. Obama has.""