Financial Times Endorses Obama

[tekisui]

The Financial Times, the respected business daily, endorsed Barack Obama on Monday to become the next US president, even though it prefers the trade policies of his Republican rival John McCain.

The newspaper, which has a daily readership of about 1.3 million worldwide according to its parent company Pearson, said the Democrat's policies blended the "good, not so good and downright bad" but he was "the right choice".

Just over a week before the November 4 election, Obama has been leading McCain by more than 10 points in some national and state polls.

The FT said the Democrat had run his campaign "superbly", and while not the same as governing, this was a "test of leadership". By contrast, McCain's campaign "has often looked a shambles", it said in an editorial.

Likewise Obama was as "fine a political orator as the country has heard in decades", but McCain was merely "adequate" in a skill used to inspire voters.

The paper praised Obama's main domestic proposal, comprehensive healthcare reform, judging McCain's plan "too timid".

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[UnrepentantUnitarian]

1. That's great!

Something else of substance that, of course, the MSM will ignore.

[Smuckies]

2. Nice

Thanks for sharing :9

[redqueen]

3. Nice one. (nt)

[Doityourself]

4. Fantastic!!!!

[vaberella]

5. Actually that article is incorrect. FT endorsed Obama back in March/April '08.

How do I know? I read it. They are rereleasing their preference.

[tekisui]

6. Good.

They were for in the Primary, and still for him in the General.

[vaberella]

7. Yup. They got a lot of flack from readers for it.

I wasn't one of them, mainly because they were doing it before the Primaries were over and there was all that tension between who to vote for....HRC or O.