Fareed Zakaria just Endorsed Barack Obama on CNN on his show, GPS

[FrenchieCat]

He gave a 5 minuted discussion on why he has endorsed Barack Obama. It sounded very much like Powell's endorsement. This guy is a real Foreign policy wonk.

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

[Virginia Dare]

1. Wow, this guy is very well respected and not an idealogue..

I'd say that is a pretty important piece of news.

[mecherosegarden]

2. "That is why I will be voting for Barack Obama..."

Beautiful!

:yourock:

[Overseas]

3. Thanks but geez what took him so long?

This famous foreign affairs correspondent finally decided

to endorse the opponent of the guy who sang a joke about bombing Iran months ago?
to endorse the opponent of the guy who needed Lieberman to correct him about the Sunnis and Shiites?

Gosh what courageous insight !

:crazy:

[thewiseguy]

4. We are in the final stretch and they are trying to maintain the momentum

with these endorsements.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Some people are never satisfied. Those people think that

everyone should time things according to them.

This is the real world. Welcome to it.

[Overseas]

21. Yeah. I'm just testy about people expecting fanfare for not being total idiots.

But I should know by now that too much of the political stuff is ego gaming.

[scrappydo]

22. I wish people like you would just plain STOP IT!

Democrats keep killing the gifts that are handed them - no wonder we have lost the last two elections!

[Hope And Change]

5. K & R!

[Top Cat]

6. Bring it on

[CitizenLeft]

7. curious what his ratings are...

...his show is SO intelligent, digs SO much deeper into every issue that I can't imagine that a great many people watch his show on a pretty Sunday afternoon - it's the wonkiest on TV, and I always feel smarter after watching it.

[AlCzervik]

8. did you hear his blistering indictment of Greenspan at the beginning of the show? Awesome!

[asdjrocky]

9. Fareed is one of the only people worth watching on CNN.

[murray hill farm]

13. I so agree!

And his whole show today was especially good, from beginning to end.

[mokawanis]

16. He's worth reading and watching

Fareed definitely has his shit together. Very bright and articulate.

[krkaufman]

10. That makes it a Sunday two-fer for Obama endorsements ...

... from proponents of the Iraq war.

http://fareedzakaria.com/ARTICLES/newsweek/080502.html

[blue-kite]

12. Well I admire him more than like him...

His newsweek articles hardly light any fires... predictable stuff.
Still good to have him on our side!

[Motown_Johnny]

14. Doh.. I flipped over and watched MSNBC and missed it.. but I did see Obama make a great speech

about PIE and the people who sell pie

[HughMoran]

15. I respect his middle eastern policy analysis

This is a good endorsement IMO.

[AspenRose]

17. Wow...I'm pleasantly surprised by that endorsement

WTG Fareed Zakaria. :thumbsup:

[Fleshdancer]

18. I love his show

Zakaria actually gives people enough time to answer questions. His interview of Bill Gates a few weeks ago was great and today he interviewed Queen Rania.

[livedemocarticordie]

19. he is a very smart guy

love his show

[Olney Blue]

20. Great news!

[1corona4u]

23. Oh cool...I love Fareed Zakaria!

:-)

[Erin Elizabeth]

24. THIS is super cool.

People respect this guy's opinion and he's not very partisan, that I can tell.

[Erin Elizabeth]

25. THIS is super cool.

People respect this guy's opinion and he's not very partisan, that I can tell.

[DCBob]

26. Another great endorsement! We are on a roll!

:headbang:

[Arugula Latte]

27. Buht he gotz a funnee name!

Is he a Muslin?!11!



:sarcasm:

[seasat]

28. His interview with Obama was really good.

His interview didn't delve into superficial issues but focused on serious foreign policy questions. Obama demonstrated a great command of foreign policy with an interviewer who has the background to catch any contradictions or mistakes.

McCain was invited to interview on Zakaria's program but the "experienced" candidate declined. IMHO, he was afraid of being exposed as having a more shallow knowledge of foreign policy than Obama (or most public figures for that matter).