Stop the Presses! A Tally of Newspaper Endorsements for President
Stop the presses! A tally of newspaper endorsements for president (via The Christian Science Monitor)
NOTE: This story has been updated with new endorsements added late Saturday. In today’s media world – increasingly crowded with online sources of news, analysis, commentary, and opinionated bloggers – newspaper endorsements may not mean as much as they did when “the press” almost exclusively…
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That alone was enough to give rational people pause. But wait! There was more!
Wow!
I am amazed that the Orlando sentinel, speaks about having little confidence that Obama would be more successful than Romney at balancing the budget!
Apparently some of the journalists in Florida are content to support an elite CEO whose economic plans for the budget, are virtually justified by impossible math, and, the brazen promise to release specific details only after the election!
Why should a former CEO who has had no trouble comparing the complex and intricate priorities essentially provided by our government, as equivalent to the financial situation of average middle class households. If one thinks about it, there is very little to correlate the supposed similarity of both.
And how in the world does the Orlando Sentinel feel justified in implying that the debt ceiling crisis was primarily the fault of Obama, or that it indicative of some sort of lacking economic wisdom or fundamental failing on the part of the President? As any of us who remember can ascertain, the President made several public statements warning us about the effect a default would have on our credit rating. He also quoted Ronald Reagan, as saying that such a routine and neccessary process as raising the debt ceiling should never be used for political grandstanding–exactly what the Tea Party, and their GOP lackeys intended to do. When we came so close that the S&P decided to downgrade our credit anyway, Republicans like Michelle Bachmann were astoundingly quick to place the results of their own Obstinacy on the Presidents firm leadership and appropriate advise! The debt had to be raised to cover debts that had already been incurred—There was no doubt that a lack of approval would be absolutely devastating! Do they think that the President should have just rolled over and played dead when so much was at the mercy of ignorant Tea Party legislators? The Sentinel is attempting to blame the fire on the person who sounded the alarm and tried desperately to prevent an inferno!
The Sentinel also displayed incredible shallowness by praising the Governor’s health care reforms in Massachusetts even though they are virtually identical to the solutions offered in the ACA.
Romney’s five point plan is based on smoke and mirrors. It is incredible that he has been able to sell his proposals even though they amount to little more than a list of meaningless generalities–and are also mathematically impossible!
Voters should NOT be encouraged to vote based only on the feeling that a crisis caused largely by a Republican approved deregulation of Wall street has not been fixed fast enough by Obama. Instead of being upset because changes have not come fast enough (primarily due to GOP obstructionism)voters should ask themselves instead, where we would now be had someone with the courage of the President, not had the guts to use extreme, but necessary tactics, to prevent a total 1929-style catastrophic market crash!
Why should we believe Republicans when giving all of their Monday morning quarterback advise? Any President would have had to take the same, or similarly extreme measures to stave off utter disaster. What Romney is now recommending is that we trust in his hail-Mary economic pass even when he won’t even fill in the details as to what his strategy is really about!