Esquire backs Obama in its first endorsement

[Nambe]

Source: The Associated Press

Esquire is backing Democrat Barack Obama for president _ its first endorsement in the magazine's 75-year history.

The Illinois senator is "the only possible choice to lead the country," editors wrote in the November issue, on newsstands Oct. 14. They also encouraged people to vote for Obama because the next president will influence the direction of the Supreme Court.

"The best argument for the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States is written quite clearly in the peaks and squiggles of John Paul Stevens' EKG," they wrote of the 88-year-old justice.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain has run a "cheap and dishonorable campaign," they said. And his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is "stunningly unqualified." ...

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/oct/08/esquire-backs-obama-in-its-first-endorsement/

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. ooooh, someone from the Hearst family

will not be happy with this

[Doctor_J]

2. One of two Walgreens magazines (w/ Rolling Stone)

that's worth paying for. Every other glossy is a right-wing rag

[stillcool]

3. Nice.

[Faygo Kid]

4. This is great. Thanks for posting.

First ever, going back to FDR.

Wow.

[Gillian]

5. Now everybody thinks Sarah is stunning.

And in so many ways.

[cyndensco]

6. Its first endorsement ever??

Go Obama!! :bounce:

[Tesibria]

7. Link to Endorsement

I wish I could quote it all - it is a beautiful piece ....

Esquire Endorses Barack Obama for President
We thought this election would be a serious fight over the future of this country, but only one candidate showed up.


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In truth, though, Senator Obama is the only one of the two candidates who seems to believe in the idea of a political commonwealth, that there are those things -- be they the guarantees in the Bill of Rights or mountains in Alaska -- that we own together. Barack Obama stands, however inchoately and however diffidently, for the notion that a common purpose is necessary for common problems, that "government," as it is designed in our founding documents, is our collective responsibility. It is this collective responsibility that built America into a great power without peer in the history of the world. And it is this collective responsibility that has succumbed to nearly thirty years of phony rightist populism, corporate brigandage, and the wildly cheered abandonment of a common American civic purpose. It is shocking that in America an argument for salvaging the common good is regarded as a radical notion by anyone, but that is where we are. And that is what Barack Obama seems to stand for. After all, as a young man with his potential, he could have headed straight to midtown Manhattan and made a fortune. Instead, he took a church job working for poor people in Chicago, and for his troubles, he and those poor people have been viciously jeered by the likes of Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin. Such is their regard for the common good. And such is Obama's promise. And in that, however inchoately and however diffidently, Obama stands not only against Bushism, but against Reaganism, which gave it birth. And that is more than enough.

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READ THE COMPLETE ENDORSEMENT HERE: http://www.esquire.com/features/esquire-endorsements-2008/esquire-endorses-barack-obama?click=main_sr

[Imagevision]

8. Can magazine purchase/subscriptions be dropping?

[hughee99]

9. Good for Obama, but...

I do question the judgment of anyone who will be swayed in the election based on an Esquire endorsement.

[Montauk6]

10. Make way for the "Esquire's a librul rag" charges.

[customerserviceguy]

11. More likely, the term "elitist" would be used

I used to subscribe, when I could get it for dirt cheap, and enjoyed the articles, but the consumer goods that magazine flogs are definitely for the yuppie crowd. I'm more than happy to wait for that stuff to show up at the local Goodwill!