Thoughtful, factual and well-written op-ed outlining the reasons why The New Yorker decided to endorse Obama for President. This is a long op-ed and discusses factually what the last 8 years have done to our country in terms of the economy, health care, foreign policy decisions and the decision to torture. Detail provided on the voting record of McCain and Obama, their positions on key issues and character. This is a well reasoned op-ed that makes a compelling case by summarizing what the country has gone through and what the candidates’ positions are.

This is a very careful, well-considered evaluation of the two candidates, and well-written to boot. McCain supporters won't agree with the bottom line, but as the campaign has gone on, even staunch conservatives have recognized that McCain is erratic and lacks a presidential temperament. His most cynical and desperate move was his appointment of Sarah Palin as his number two without, apparently, even the most cursory of vetting. In contrast, as even that hard-line neocon Charles Krauthammer noted, Obama has a first-class intelligence and a first-class temperament. McCain has neither, as the New Yorker pointed out.

This opinion piece has minimal journalistic merit. The magazine invariably supports Democrats. Here, as usual, their elitist attitudes color every paragraph of this lengthy promotional piece for Obama. Nothing is sasid about his total lack of exectuive experience, of his failure at "community organizing", of the disaster of the Annenberg Challenge. One can expect the same biased and uninformed endorsements from the other Democratic Party organs in the next couple of weeks, though not as lengthy as this one.