The New Yorker Endorses Obama

Months after its infamous cover depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama, The New Yorker magazine endorsed the Illinois senator in an editorial in its forthcoming issue.

Calling the Bush administration the worst since Reconstruction, the magazine praised Obama’s temperament and intellect.

“At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness,” the editors wrote. “That leader