Alex Massie Alex Massie

Imperialists for Obama!

Via Clive Davis, I see that Niall Feguson has abandoned John McCain. In a Guardian interview he says:

He denies suggestions that Colossus, specifically, was written with half an eye on influencing the White House – but he became, for a time, one of John McCain’s foreign policy advisers. “I must say that since he won the nomination, which I was very happy about, I’ve played virtually no role. In fact, I’ve played no role. Because, uh” – he is suddenly, uncharacteristically halting – “how to describe it? – I felt much less … enthused, I think is probably the word, now that it’s between him and Obama. And I felt much more uncomfortable with some of the positions he has had to take in order to secure the conservative vote.”

Presumably this means that Ferguson is reasonably comfortable with Obama’s foreign policy views.

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