Esquire Endorses Obama ... Kinda

He might be unable to define what change means, but Barack's the only horse in the race, say mag's editors
By Lev Weinstein,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 8, 2008 7:45 AM CDT
Esquire Endorses Obama ... Kinda
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., climbs the steps of his campaign plane en route to the second of three presidential debates with Republican rival John McCain.    (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Barack Obama "is the only possible choice to lead the country," says Esquire, though the magazine’s position is less an endorsement of Obama and more a treatise against John McCain. Obama has failed to define his key campaign theme of change “except as all those things encompassed by the phrase ‘Elect me’”—but he still represents a departure from George W. Bush that McCain does not.

Despite his “dithering,” Obama believes in the commonwealth. More importantly, the health of Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens is declining. These things make Obama the only viable candidate. Meanwhile, McCain’s run has been "cheap and dishonorable," and has forced the Arizona senator to become a "parody of himself." "Not even the presidency," write the editors, "is worth what it's made John McCain do to himself."
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