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New Yorker endorses Obama

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor October 3, 2008 01:42 PM

The New Yorker was not a favorite on Barack Obama's reading list for a while after a notorious cover showed him in Arabic garb fist-bumping his wife in the Oval Office as Old Glory burned in the fireplace. It was meant to be a satire of attacks on Obama, but he wasn't happy.

But he probably feels better about the magazine today after it endorsed him for president.

The endorsement, posted online today and scheduled to appear in the Oct. 13 issue, starts with a rather lengthy catalogue of the failings of President Bush and of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

It is only a sizable chunk into the endorsement that Obama is even mentioned: "On almost every issue, McCain and the Democratic Party’s nominee, Barack Obama, speak the generalized language of “reform,” but only Obama has provided a convincing, rational, and fully developed vision."

The magazine's editors go on to praise Obama's policy positions and his character -- particularly in contrast to McCain's.

"The longer the campaign goes on, the more the issues of personality and character have reflected badly on McCain," the endorsement says. "Unless appearances are very deceiving, he is impulsive, impatient, self-dramatizing, erratic, and a compulsive risk-taker. These qualities may have contributed to his usefulness as a “maverick” senator. But in a President they would be a menace. By contrast, Obama’s transformative message is accompanied by a sense of pragmatic calm.

The praise becomes more effusive in conclusion: "The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama."

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The New Yorker.....isn't that one of those moderate, fair and balanced, non-partisan, magazines?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Scranton Joe October 3, 08 01:50 PM
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Ha,ha,ha,ha,,,,,,,,,ho,ho,ho,,,,,,,,,oh my,oh my, what in a world is this ignorant assertion.Did you know people it has been over two hundred plus years(200+) since this nation was founded with its CONSTITUTION available equally and openly for each individual American to look,read,think and make their decision as they so desire according to their freedom to choose of whom and which goverment they prefer throughout all these years? Did people of this nation were blindfolded and went to the polling boths all these decades ha,ha,ha,,,,,silly isn't it.Sometimes so called professional and expert of history or any other subject for that matter think from their rear end instead of their head. Can I pass on that Kool Aid please. Is Barrack Obama an economistst and did he use to run a business or a small store or even an organisation that qualify him to fix the economy because after all and to be serious you attain experience to fix something from actually done so in the past . Be serious people, be serious and I'm glad I'm not foolish enough to buy that Kool Aid. May God bless and may God gives us the right and brightest candidate to save us and not to kill us.

Posted by skmj October 3, 08 02:28 PM
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Vision????

Yes, a Socialist Vision.

Yes, a Communist Vision.

Yes, a vision of embracing domestic terrorists (Ayers) and slum lords (Resko).

Yes, a vision of embracing a preacher who damns America and blames you and me for 9-11.

Maybe that's Obama's vision but that's not my vision for America.

Posted by db1112 October 3, 08 02:49 PM
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skmj, Well.....that was your WORST rambling rant so far!! I lost you after the first phrase/sentence. You still aren't making any sense.

Posted by non October 3, 08 03:16 PM
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So, Repugs, now that McBush's campaign is on a downward spiral it's "shoot the messenger" time? Good luck on that.

Posted by oaklynne October 3, 08 04:41 PM
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I'm waiting on the endorsement of McPalin from:

Guns and Ammo
Soldier of Fortune
NASCAAR Today
New York Post

Posted by Sam October 3, 08 04:41 PM
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Ya skmj sounds like Palin mumbling.

Posted by DUDE October 3, 08 11:39 PM
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You bought the Koolaide 8 years ago and now. Obama does not have anything to do with the problems we are facing. McCain will bring the country further down because he is a crazed man...POW....waiting to blow....and he can really lie. now does he not sound like Bush...

Posted by Mysterious October 4, 08 03:10 AM
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