New York Times Endorses President Obama's Reelection

[Lakhota]

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.

More: New York Times Endorses President Obama's Reelection

Barack Obama for Re-Election - The New York Times

 

[Amazed]

You sober tonight?

 

[Rozman]

Wow,I am shocked.
Who saw that coming....

 

[Rocko]

Thread worthy?

 

[Amelia]

 

[lukelk]

Oh what now one of the biggest news papers is not valid?

 

[Rozman]

The NY Times is almost bankrupt and going out of business.
So they have something in common with Obama who has placed this country
almost bankrupt and almost out of business.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama is doing a good a job to this country as NY Times management is doing to their newspaper

 

[blackhawk]

The New York Times is backing Obama wow it would have taken Nostradamus to see that one.

 

[lukelk]

So what, fox is an infomercial for Romney, does that mean they can't support him or are invalid?

 

[Lakhota]

Washington Post endorsement: Four more years for President Obama - The Washington Post

 

[Amelia]

OMG, say it isn't so. Well this changes everything.

 

[Rozman]

So the Washington Post states Obama did a shitty job in his first term
so he should definitely get another term...

 

[blackhawk]

Washington Post equally shocking we would have needed Kerskin to predicate that one.

 

[Amazed]

NEWS FLASH, LEFT WING SITES ENDORSE OBAMA

Shitting Bull....you have issues.

 

[Rozman]

Washington Compost and the NY Slimes
same same...

 

[syrenn]

i know

 

[Rozman]

Does anybody want to post an announcement that
we didn't see from 1,000,000 miles away...

 

[Rocko]

Does anybody want to post an announcement that
we didn't see from 1,000,000 miles away...

Lakhota has a brain!


bet ya didn't see that one coming.

 

[blackhawk]

Does anybody want to post an announcement that
we didn't see from 1,000,000 miles away...

My dog started drinking the beer out of my glass when I was on the phone bet no one saw that one coming.