American Views Abroad

Two New York newspapers comment on the current state of the primaries. New York's 'hometown' newspaper takes a close look at Hillary going negative today:

'Employing innuendo and half-truths against Sen. Barack Obama, Sen Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former President, have introduced the politics of personal destruction to the Democratic presidential campaign. They bear responsibility for cheapening the tone of the contest. ...... They have gone well beyond engaging in tough political jousting while steering the campaign far from substantive issues.'

www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/01/24/2008-01-24_hillary_goes_negative-3.html

The New York Observer has endorsed Sen. Obama for President in the February 5^th primary:

'Because of who he is and what he stands for, a former constitutional law teacher with few ties to the Washington establishment yet a sophisticated respect for it, Mr. Obama stands the best chance of restoring the essential relationship between power and the American people. He is not flanked and blocked by an existing, entrenched power structure; his words are not muddied by layers of handlers; he still says what he means. .......We believe that Mr. Obama's idealism and fresh ideas would ensure that the end of the Bush era would also mean an end to government by secrecy, Cheneyism, arrogance, oligarchy; an end to mindless armed unilateralism abroad; an end of the blustering, rank partisan disputes of the last quarter-century.'

www.observer.com/2008/february-5-obama