From London´s comically English mayor Boris Johnson comes my favorite Obama endorsement yet. Notwithstanding typical Boris insensitivity to cultural etiquette (referring to his preferred candidate as Barack Hussein Obama, a full name generally reserved for use by the columnists of American nativist blogs and Fox News) and amusingly verbose praise (¨[of Obama for having] no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences¨), Mayor Johnson actually delivers a rather compelling endorsement. It´s worth a read, if only to understand how Europe (or a small and very English part of it) views the American elections. Plus Boris is American (he was born in New York City) so maybe one day we´ll be treated to a Boris candidacy on our side of the Atlantic.
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