Posted on 10/20/2012 2:38:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As interesting as the Orlando Sentinel’s choosing to endorse Mitt Romney is, what the editorial actually says is more so. It is fair, but fair is brutal. As Shakespeare put it, “I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.”
On the economy:
If that were the only metric that mattered, the president might credibly argue that the U.S. economy was finally on the right track. Unfortunately for him, and for the American people, he can’t.
On the next four years:
We have little confidence that Obama would be more successful managing the economy and the budget in the next four years. For that reason, though we endorsed him in 2008, we are recommending Romney in this race.
Obama’s defenders would argue that he inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression, and would have made more progress if not for obstruction from Republicans in Congress. But Democrats held strong majorities in the House and Senate during his first two years.
Other presidents have succeeded even with the other party controlling Capitol Hill. Democrat Bill Clinton presided over an economic boom and balanced the budget working with Republicans. Leaders find a way.
On that leadership:
The next president is likely to be dealing with a Congress where at least one, if not both, chambers are controlled by Republicans. It verges on magical thinking to expect Obama to get different results in the next four years.
Two years ago, a bipartisan panel the president appointed recommended a 10-year, $4 trillion deficit-reduction plan. Rather than embrace it and sell it to the American people, Obama took his own, less ambitious plan to Congress, where it was largely ignored by both parties.
Now the president and his supporters are attacking Romney because his long-term budget blueprint calls for money-saving reforms to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, three of the biggest drivers of deficit spending. Obama would be more credible in critiquing the proposal if he had a serious alternative for bringing entitlement spending under control. He doesn’t.
The endorsement concludes that, “after reflecting on his four years in the White House, we also don’t think that [Obama's] the best qualified candidate in this race. We endorse Mitt Romney for president.”
In 2008, the paper endorsed Obama. In 2004, it put its weight behind John Kerry. Prior to that it endorsed George W. Bush, Bob Dole, and George H. W. Bush.
Putting a CPUSA mole in the WH for one term is bad enough, but he is a symptom of the larger and terminal problem of Universal Suffrage.
Seems more and more folks are awakening to the fact that their Messiah is a phoney. Thank goodness, we can’t go through another four years of his bullshit (Hope that word is okay - may get scrubbed). Since it refers to Obama’s policies, it should be okay.
You first...
Love how they misuse the word “Leadership”... Heh!
Lots of folks tried to tell lots of folks that their half black, half American was a Marxist...some still don't realize how Marxist Obama is....many still refuse to believe the facts. Obama's October surprise might be an Obama melt down....
I have always said: Respect is earned from quietly facing hardships and rising above them without complaint. A person who will settle for sympathy never achieves the reward of being respected.
Obama oozes contempt for a strong, working America.
Charles C. W. Cooke, lazy writer.
Bookend someone else’s work with an opening and closing paragraph. Hey Charlie, why not just post a link to the Orlando Sentinel’s editorial?
I wish someone would enumerate the steps Obama has taken to punish capitalism such as his EPA shutting down power plants and other businesses.
You called it. “Warm body” democracies have always collapsed into ruin. We will be no exception.
And don't forget that Reagan had to work with a Tip O'Neill-led House for most of his Presidency, yet he found a way to get things done. He wasn't afraid to get in there and do the work that a President has to do. IOW, he wasn't lazy or afraid of doing the grunt work. Contrast that with the preening, bloviating slob we have now, who would much rather hit the links or run off to some lousy 'Rat fundraiser than do any real work of governing.
If you're President and you don't regularly invite the oppostion to the WH for frequent discussion, you're a fool to expect you will get anywhere.
And Obama has no clue when it comes to negotiation. How could he, he's an Alynskyite.
When his only experience was community organizer, they found him qualified. Now that he's been prez for 4 years, he's unqualified.
*sigh* Such is liberal logic, but whatever.
In 2008, the paper endorsed Obama. In 2004, it put its weight behind John Kerry. Prior to that it endorsed George W. Bush, Bob Dole, and George H. W. Bush.Furiouso!
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