The Boston Globe will endorse Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic New Hampshire primary, the newspaper has announced. In its Sunday, Dec 16 editions, the Globe says "Obama has the leadership skills to reset the country's reputation in the world." The paper praises the Illinois senator's "clarity and directness," his "healthy independence from the established order," and his deep understanding of the "intricate realities of our age.""The most sobering challenges that face this country -- terrorism, climate change, trade and economic pressures, disease pandemics -- are global," the endorsement reads. "America needs a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world.... Barack Obama has this understanding at his core."
The newspaper also addresses Obama's relative lack of political experience.
"It is true that the other Democratic contenders have more conventional resumes, and have spent more time in Washington," it says."But that exposure has tended to give them a sense of government's constraints. Obama is more animated by its possibilities."
It should be noted too that this is a very big day for John McCain and a very bad day for Mitt Romney, as both of these two crucial newspaper endorsements have gone to the former (Huckabee never had a chance at either, let's face it.)
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