London's Conservative mayor endorses Obama

Oct 21, 1:34 PM EDT

London's Conservative mayor endorses Obama

By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press Writer


LONDON (AP) -- The mayor of London, a member of the British political party that is a traditional ally of U.S. Republicans, says Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama "visibly incarnates change and hope, at a time when America desperately needs both."

In an article for Tuesday's edition of The Daily Telegraph newspaper, London Mayor Boris Johnson of the center-right Conservative Party was blunt in his assessment of President Bush's legacy and how an Obama presidency would break from it.

Johnson's endorsement of the Democratic candidate came after McCain declared in a radio address Saturday that "socialist leaders" in Europe admire Obama. The Republican candidate has likened Obama's tax policies to socialism.

Criticizing the Bush administration, Johnson called the invasion of Iraq "catastrophic" and said the economic crisis had forced the U.S. government into a "humiliating resort to semi-socialist solutions."

"Democracy and capitalism are the two great pillars of the American idea," he wrote. "To have rocked one of those pillars may be regarded as a misfortune. To have damaged the reputation of both, at home and abroad, is a pretty stunning achievement for an American president. "

Johnson said that only a clean break in the form of an Obama victory would help the U.S. recover in the eyes of the world.

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i really, really, really, really want to see Bloomberg endorse obama.

I would praise him to the skies.

personally, i think be belongs in the Obama cabinet... perhaps even secretary of the treasury.

as an endorsement by a 'European Socialist'.

more irrelevant.

BoJo is a certifiable (in many senses of the word) loose cannon.

The Conservative party in most cases - with some exceptions - is far less to the right than the Republican party.

Obama is amazingly popular in Europe, even with right of center parties. If Europeans could vote, it would make the Reagan 84 landslide look like a close thing.

I mean, what the hell's a little vote fraud.