Fareed Zakaria endorses Barack Obama. On CNN just now.

[Subdivisions]

I don't know who he would bring to our side, but it's good to see, I guess.

[Miss Chybil]

1. McCain represents the best of America's past. Obama represents the best of America's future.

Very nice endorsement.

[2Design]

5. mccain doesn't represent the best of anything and he has loser

liberman at his side too

[KG]

7. man, it sure is tuff to bury certian myths, isn't it?

the mccain and powell still carry some kind of cachet around here is amazing.

[Miss Chybil]

9. I was quoting Colin Powell.

It was a forward looking statement. I appreciate that kind of thinking. I appreciate the endorsement of my candidate and my candidate does too.

I don't like what Colin Powell did at the UN, but I believe he believed what he was saying. He presented the evidence he was given. I like Colin Powell. I did long before the UN presentation and I was extremely disappointed in him afterwards. Today, I am proud of him and I'm proud of our party. I'm proud that Barack Obama has made our party inclusive and that he has opened the door of reason wide enough that all Americans have an opportunity to walk through it. It is our choice whether we take that opportunity.

[polichick]

2. He's a first rate thinker - I'm thrilled to have his endorsement...

...though Obama already has the smart vote, Zakaria's endorsement may inspire certain ethnic groups.

[Chimichurri]

3. He's no earth shattering contrarian. He swings which ever way the wind is blowing. When

Bush's approval ratings were up, he was the token middle eastern personality going on all the talk shows talking about how great it was for us to enter Iraq. Then when the nation began souring on that notion, he went on all the talk shows delicately poo-pooing the Bush/Cheney Excellent Misadventure in Iraq. Noone ever called him out on his own flip flop.

Now after the deluge of endorsements, he, like Powell, find the environment safe to do the obvious thing. Both of these cats would have been better served to be ahead of the curve then to follow the herd as they've been known to do in the past.

This is just opportunism for him as it is for all of the rats jumping ship now after it couldn't be more obvious the American public has had enough.

[dkofos]

4. Now there is an endorsent I can respect.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. He gave the endorsement in Newsweek here it is:

The Case for Barack Obama


It has become fashionable to lament the state of presidential politics and decry the tenor of campaigns. But in fact, this election has been a pleasant surprise. In the last debate, as the candidates discussed their respective health-care plans in some detail, the danger was that the Ameri-can people would be turned off not by negativity but by boredom.

Compare this election to the one in 1988—when the Pledge of Allegiance, Willie Horton, flag factories and Belgian endives dominated the campaign. Or contrast the relatively brief appearance of William Ayers with the barrage of Swift-Boat attacks on John Kerry. Some of this is because the American people have clearly tired of slash-and-burn campaigns. But much of it is because the two candidates are men of decency and honor.

John McCain is brave, and this courage has manifested itself not simply in the prisons of Vietnam. Over the past two decades he has broken with his party and president on global warming, campaign finance, government spending and the use of torture. He has chosen, for the most part, to forgo the racial coding that the Republican Party had used for decades in its campaigns. But despite these tremendous strengths, as a candidate for president in 2008, he is the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time.

To watch McCain address the current economic crisis is to see a man out of step with his time. His responses have been a recitation of old slogans—cut taxes, limit the government, cut spending—that are largely irrelevant to today's problems. Does anyone really believe that tackling earmarks will get credit markets functioning? In some ways, McCain's intellectual fatigue reflects the exhaustion of the ideological revolution begun by Reagan and Thatcher. The country needs fresh thinking that is ready to accept new facts and new ideas. It's a new world out there.>>>>>snip

http://www.newsweek.com/id/164498?from=rss

[lukasahero]

8. Anyone who didn't see that coming hasn't been reading him

Zakaria's been bloody brilliant this year and if you didn't think he'd already unofficially endorsed Obama over the last few months, you weren't paying attention.