Boston Globe endorses Obama, McCain
Posted: Saturday, December 15, 2007 8:24 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under:
2008, McCain, Obama
From NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan and Domenico MontanaroThe
Boston Globe has endorsed
Obama and
McCain. The Globe released early excerpts of its editorial to be published Sunday morning.
The
Globe’s editorial board “wrote that Obama, the Illinois Democrat,
fulfills America's need for ‘a president with an intuitive sense of the
wider world,’ and that McCain, the Arizona Republican, ‘has done more
than his share to transcend partisanship and promote an honest
discussion of the problems facing the United States.’”
"Of Obama, the editorial board wrote that his diverse and international life experience was a plus. 'The most sobering challenges that face this country -- terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics -- are global,' the board wrote. 'America needs a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world, with all its perils and opportunities. Barack Obama has this understanding at his core.'" Of his experience: "It is true that all the other Democratic contenders have more
conventional resumes, and have spent more time in Washington," the
board wrote. "But that exposure has tended to give them a sense of
government’s constraints. Obama is more open to its possibilities."
On McCain: "McCain was praised as a straight talker whose honesty at political
cost might help a polarized nation. The board called him an antidote to
the 'toxic political approach' of the last two presidential elections. McCain’s
views differ from those of this editorial page in a variety of ways.
Yet McCain’s honesty has served him well,' the board wrote. 'As a
lawmaker and as a candidate, he has done more than his share to
transcend partisanship and promote an honest discussion of the problems
facing the United States. He deserves the opportunity to represent his
party in November’s election.'"
