As presumably will surprise no one, the New York Times has endorsed the re-election of President Obama in a lengthy editorial:
President Obama has shown a firm commitment to using government to help foster growth. He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless. Mr. Obama has impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent on stopping him that they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has gotten this far with a guile that allows him to say whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear. But he has tied himself to the ultraconservative forces that control the Republican Party and embraced their policies, including reckless budget cuts and 30-year-old, discredited trickle-down ideas. Voters may still be confused about Mr. Romney’s true identity, but they know the Republican Party, and a Romney administration would reflect its agenda. Mr. Romney’s choice of Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate says volumes about that.
The editorial continues for several pages in that vein, detailing President Obama’s accomplishments and how he differs from Gov. Romney. The New York Times endorsed Barack Obama in 2008.
He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless.
What budget? I don’t see no stinkin’ budget. I see wall-to-wall trillion dollar deficits, though.
Did President Clinton teach you nothing, Ice? Budget policies not budgets. They mean things said in campaign speeches.
The word I object to in that quote is “worked”.
If there are no budgets, then budget policies are meaningless unless the policy is to not have a budget at all.
As for what to object to – there’s too much.
I can understand thinking that Romney will be worse. But to think this Administration has been anything other than a total disaster buggers beliefs. (Yes, I mean “buggers”, and I mean it in the English sense of the word.)
What get’s me most is that Obama gets credit for the economy bottoming out. If you drop something off a cliff it won’t keep falling indefinitely, eventually it will hit something and stop going down. So Obama happened to be President when the economy went THUD. Big deal. What’s he done since?
I also heard over the weekend that the NYPost has endorsed Romney. This is almost as unsurprising as the NYTimes endorsing Obama.