The New York Post newspaper has editorialised in support of John Howard in his spat with 2008 presidential aspirant, Senator Barack Obama.
Accusing the Illinois senator of “breathtaking naiveté”, the populist tabloid said that Howard “gets it”, whereas Obama “may be on the steepest foreign-policy learning curve of any major presidential candidate in recent history”.
The New York Post is owned by News Corporation, headed by the Australian-born American citizen, Rupert Murdoch.
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This is the text of the New York Post’s editorial.
BARACK’S BLUNDER
Senator Barack Obama, all of 25 months removed from the Illinois state legislature, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States on Saturday – and immediately began trading harsh words with the leader of one of America’s oldest and most reliable allies.
In the process, the freshman senator revealed truly breathtaking naiveté.
