New York Times Endorses President Obama's Reelection

[freedombecki]

By Sabrina Siddiqui

President Barack Obama picked up the endorsement of The New York Times on Saturday, a decision the paper's editorial board said was due to administration policies that have placed the economy on the path to recovery, the passage of landmark health care reform, the advocating of women's rights and a foreign policy agenda that has kept unstable regions from combustion -- all accomplished, the board argues, in the face of an "ideological assault" from the Republican Party.

The endorsement is hardly unexpected but is significant nonetheless coming from one of the most influential papers in the United States. The Times' liberal-leaning editorial page backed Obama in 2008 and has, throughout the 2012 cycle, painted a stark contrast between the president's vision and the policy proposals of his opponent, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. That choice is emphatically laid out in Saturday's editorial, "Barack Obama for Re-Election," in which the Times states that Romney "has gotten this far with a guile that allows him to say whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear."

"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," the editorial board writes of Romney. "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." The editorial adds that the appointment of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) to Romney's ticket "says volumes" about what a Romney presidency would entail.

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Barack Obama for Re-Election - The New York Times

Wow! What a shock!,

The rag for the liberal media endorses a liberal!

The choice is clear, four more years of failed economics, four more years of blaming Bush, four more years of China taking US tax dollars.

Or,

We moved the nation forward, to recovery and responsibility.

That is gonna happen with Romney in the Oval Office!

 

[Locke11_21]

The NY Times endorses Obama, did anyone really think one of the Democrat Party's biggest SuperPac would endorse a Republican??

 

[jillian]

That was after he slipped up and said he was casting his vote for his dear friend Mitt Romney.

Immie

PS just kidding it didn't really happen. You liberals shouldn't start googling that. I was joking.

don't make me hurt you.

You never know. I might enjoy that!



Immie

 

[daveman]

Martin Sheen: Romney Is 'Stupid' And 'Arrogant'

Sheen misspelled "Obama".

Wasn't he an American actor before his Communist proclivities took hold?

Yup. Playing the President in "The West Wing" kinda went to his head, looks like.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Martin Sheen: Romney Is 'Stupid' And 'Arrogant'

Really? Martin Sheen?....UGH

 

[francoHFW]

Romey is a W clone who'll say ANYTHING to get elected. Well said NYT. Pub dupes!!

 

[Lakhota]

 

[buckeye45_73]

Wow the NY Times endorsed Obama, when did they last endorse a republican?

 

[Meathead]

Well spank my ass and call me Judy! Who woulda thunk?!

 

[Claudette]

WOW the NY Slimes is backing Barry??

Color me fucking shocked.