The Economist Endorses John Kerry

[shawmut]

America's next president

The incompetent or the incoherent?
Oct 28th 2004
From The Economist print edition


With a heavy heart, we think American readers should vote for John Kerry on November 2nd

YOU might have thought that, three years after a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, a period which has featured two wars, radical political and economic legislation, and an adjustment to one of the biggest stockmarket crashes in history, the campaign for the presidency would be an especially elevated and notable affair. If so, you would be wrong. This year's battle has been between two deeply flawed men: George Bush, who has been a radical, transforming president but who has never seemed truly up to the job, let alone his own ambitions for it; and John Kerry, who often seems to have made up his mind conclusively about something only once, and that was 30 years ago. But on November 2nd, Americans must make their choice, as must The Economist. It is far from an easy call, especially against the backdrop of a turbulent, dangerous world. But, on balance, our instinct is towards change rather than continuity: Mr Kerry, not Mr Bush.


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http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=3329802

[LynnTheDem]

1. GOP rightwingnut rag

At least they realize bush has to go.

Too bad they've never bothered to actually fact-check on Kerry; that would relieve their "heavy heart".

[spooky3]

2. Very definitely, E has always been a RW mag; maybe we should send them

The New Yorker, so they can read a well-reasoned argument supported by facts.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. The Economist Is A Conservative Magazine

but is a reasoned and thoughtful conservatism... The conservatism of Edmund Burke...

Bush's conservatism is the conservatism of the PNACEers ... Big difference...