The New Republic has published an editorial endorsing Senator Barack Obama in next month’s presidential election.
The endorsement is the latest in a growing list of media recommendations of the Democratic contender against his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain.
This is the text of The New Republic’s editorial.
Obama for President
The past eight years have been like watching a TV makeover show in reverse. We entered the Bush era a ravishing beauty attracting envious stares. We leave it a gum-smacking sad sack with split ends and an empty social calendar. Over the course of George W. Bush’s second term, in particular, the images of our country have not just been unattractive but virtually apocalyptic: a major city destroyed; cars raining into the Mississippi from a crumbling bridge; swaths of exurbia dotted with foreclosed homes; a financial system in ruins; angry emotionalism flooding politics.