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LA Times Makes First Endorsements Since '72: Obama, McCain

Posted by GottaLaff , Cliff Schecter's Blog at 8:11 AM on February 2, 2008.


At least they got the Obama part right.
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This from my local paper:

Barack Obama and John McCain Friday won the backing of the Los Angeles Times, one of the most-read newspapers in the United States and most influential in delegate-rich California.

In separate editorials, the paper praised Obama as an "inspiring leader who cuts through typical internecine campaign bickering," and McCain as a consistent conservative with "fundamental individualism."

Both presidential endorsements are the paper's first since 1972.

Wowzers! Not since '72? That is impressive endorsing, then.

On Obama:

"[Obama] electrifies young voters, not because he is young but because he embodies the desire to move to the next chapter of the American story," the editorial read. "He brings with him deep knowledge on foreign relations and on this nation's particular struggles with identity and opportunity. His flair for expression, both in print and on the stump, too easily leads observers to forget that Obama is a man not just of style but of substance."

The paper also praised Hillary Clinton, but faulted the New York senator for her original Senate vote authorizing use of force in Iraq.

"Experience has value only if it is accompanied by courage and leads to judgment. Nowhere was that judgment more needed than in 2003, when Congress was called upon to accept or reject the disastrous Iraq invasion. Clinton faced a test and failed, joining the stampede as Congress voted to authorize war," the editorial read.

On McCain:

[The]editorial board noted it disagrees with many of his stands on social issues, but wrote, "The Arizona senator's conservatism is, if not always to our liking, at least genuine.

"It reflects his fundamental individualism, spanning his distrust of big government, his support for immigration reform and his insistence on a sound American foreign policy," the editorial read.

Uh huh, putting our soldiers in jeopardy for another 100 years sure telegraphs "sound" to me.

At least they got the Obama part right, IMHO.

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GottaLaff is a regular blogger for Cliff Schecter's Blog


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A better tag line for McCain
Posted by: ArthurTHimmelman on Feb 2, 2008 3:19 PM   
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By removing one letter from a favorite McCain tag line, we can promote the reality of his message better. Just drop the "L" from the Plain Talking Express, and we have a far more accurate McCain tag line: the Pain Talking Express.

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Obama Mythology
Posted by: mrtshw on Feb 2, 2008 10:29 PM   
Current rating: 1    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
The moronic media's vilification of the Clintons and concomitant deification of Obama is proceeding full throttle. The Clintons are being smeared with charges of media invented
racism while their real crimes have, as usual, been ignored. Can anybody say Factor 8 Blood Scandal. Fahmy Malek, Kevin Ives, Don Henry, Janie Ward, etc?
Meanwhile , many Democrats and media whores are salivating over the charismatic
Obama despite the fact he is only averaging 30% of the white vote cast. Even with my limited math skills I must conclude that a 70% negative rating from 80% of the voters is hardly a favorable electibility indicator !
Obama's actual negative is the fact two of his primary advisors are Zigniew Brzezinski and Brzezinsky 's son. Please be advised Brzezinski is a co-founder with David Rockefeller of the Trilateral Commission. He and Kissinger are, in fact, Rockefeller's primary lieutenants and serve with Rockefeller in other powerful global imperialist groups such as
the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations and Council on Economic Development in the Western Hemisphere. Brzezinski's other son, by the way, is a major advisor to John McCain.

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» RE: Obama Posted by: sui_generis
Someone On The Right Anne Coulter Feels Good About
Posted by: SweetEarth on Feb 3, 2008 11:55 AM   
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Coulter on Fox (Jan 31): likes Clinton because "she's more conservative than McCain." Do Caroline & Uncle Ted--Have All The "Stones?"

It's easy to see why the 1% who Love! U.S. politics just as it is, would ditto the nasty, autocratic, combative, ad hominem "code" rhetoric of Bill Clinton. But, we're not all , beer-drinking, macho bullies in this country. You'd have thought (or at least I did) our so-called "leaders" would have the "stones," if not the self-respect to object. But, looks like the Kennedys, alone, may have felt obliged to tell the truth (about Ted’s former friends, the Clintons).

The Combative Clintons dominate every former democratic institution and whip up militancy & conflict everywhere they go, probably incurably. The aggressive zealotry they model is a disservice to their base as well, in that it turns so much of the public off. They manipulated long honored primary tradition by “dis-ing” the rules unilaterally, and won't hesitate a minute, to force these ad hoc changes down our throat no matter if they take the party down with them. Their ugly smear campaigns discredited/eliminated several strong candidates from the race selecting Obama --who they thought would be easier to beat/bully/compromise and smear--

It's so much easier to complain about our democratic congress rather than object to the strident Hillary, matriarch of that congress, who dictates the rules none of her poor subordinates dare dispute, or might favor independently, that is, without her approval. It's Hillary's congress which almost invariably, gives George Bush the "heads up" no matter the usual faux "protests." And while Hillary dominates congress, it’s Bill, Champion of the One-Percent, the New World Order (takeover by the elites), still leading the choir for his hasty, ill conceived global initiatives (NAFTA, WTO, et al). The 1% who rule the World Economic Forum at Davos Switzerland are all about indecent, inordinate, entitlements incommensurate by any measure, moral OR!! Economic.

It's pathetic that among those who profess to stand for and love democracy-- so few have the Guts To Take These Dictators On, and instead, stand by quietly and watch them violate the spectrum of progressive values our once advanced society prided itself on. And my posts focus on Hill & Bill so much! because they did the heavy lifting for George Bush, pushed our country closer than we've ever been to a dictatorship & tore apart our party from within.

I oughta mention that a (VERY!!) small handful of the media HAVE tried to be heard with respect to Clinton on ISSUES & POLICIES (and not the good old "Boys Will Be Boys") misadventures with Monica. And…well, I’m pleased to report a few of those (not all) still have their jobs. And I have my fingers crossed America finds itself worthy of being viewed again, as the Progressive Leader of the Free World.
Some may think it’s not major but there’s a super-substantive difference between Clinton & Obama—with the Clintons’ as criteria, we can T-R-U-S-T Obama with the farm.

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