Hope this isn't a duplicate Diary - searched but didn't see anything.
Anyway the Financial Times that noted Left Wing Rag has endorsed Kerry. It is a tepid endorsement, but from a widely read business newspaper I'll take it. Some key quotes below the fold...
This short-term economic fix [tax cuts] could turn, however, into long-term disaster. Mr Bush has yet to veto a single spending bill in Congress. His pledge to make the tax cuts permanent is reckless. Only on trade has the administration behaved with restraint. Unlike the 1980s, when Republican administrations played to anti-Japanese sentiment, the White House has avoided stoking popular fears about China's economic power.
But it is on foreign policy that Mr Bush will ultimately be judged. From his first day in office, Mr Bush has pursued a political agenda guided by ideology. Acting on principle is not necessarily a weakness, as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan demonstrated during the cold war. Mr Bush's flaw is his stubborn reluctance to admit mistakes and to adjust personnel and policy. Blind faith in military power as a tool for change has too often influenced decision-making.
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The US needs allies in the struggle against terrorism but Mr Bush's crusading moralism has alienated the rest of the world, and a large constituency at home already fearful about the influence of the religious right. The scandal of Abu Ghraib has stained America's reputation for a generation. The administration's disdain for international law has shaken faith in American values. Overall, the US-led war on terror misreads the battle against al-Qaeda as a clash of civilisations rather than a battle within the Muslim world.
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There are those, particularly in Europe, who would like to turn back the clock to before 9/11. They pine for the peace and prosperity of the Clinton years. Mr Bush recognised the world had changed. But he has taken the US in the wrong direction. As a candidate Mr Kerry often fails to inspire. He owes his rise more to opposition to Mr Bush than loyalty to his own cause. But on balance, he is the better, safer choice.