Posted on 09/26/2016 6:22:02 AM PDT by Elusive
Hillary Clinton for President Our endorsement is rooted in respect for her intellect, experience and courage.
In any normal election year, we’d compare the two presidential candidates side by side on the issues. But this is not a normal election year. A comparison like that would be an empty exercise in a race where one candidate — our choice, Hillary Clinton — has a record of service and a raft of pragmatic ideas, and the other, Donald Trump, discloses nothing concrete about himself or his plans while promising the moon and offering the stars on layaway. (We will explain in a subsequent editorial why we believe Mr. Trump to be the worst nominee put forward by a major party in modern American history.)
But this endorsement would also be an empty exercise if it merely affirmed the choice of Clinton supporters. We’re aiming instead to persuade those of you who are hesitating to vote for Mrs. Clinton — because you are reluctant to vote for a Democrat, or for another Clinton, or for a candidate who might appear, on the surface, not to offer change from an establishment that seems indifferent and a political system that seems broken.
Running down the other guy won’t suffice to make that argument. The best case for Hillary Clinton cannot be, and is not, that she isn’t Donald Trump.
The best case is, instead, about the challenges this country faces, and Mrs. Clinton’s capacity to rise to them.
The next president will take office with bigoted, tribalist movements and their leaders on the march. In the Middle East and across Asia, in Russia and Eastern Europe, even in Britain and the United States, war, terrorism and the pressures of globalization are eroding democratic values, fraying alliances and challenging the ideals of tolerance and charity.
(Excerpt) Read more at nyti.ms ...
From the Slimes alternative universe.
“If we pitch a fit, it’s news, print it.”
All of which started, or accelerated under the Obama administration....and the Times wants more of the same....
What a waste of a whole editorial. Here’s what they can write, free of charge, to be copied and pasted every 4 years:
“We at the New York Times endorse x for President because he/she has a (D) next to his/her name.”
So much simpler! After all, does anyone remember the last Republican the Slimes endorsed for President?
ML/NJ
The Clinton Foundation contributed to them in 2008 right?
The NYT endorsed Eisenhower.
“What a surprise! The NYT endorses the Democrat.”, said no one ever.
Old news. Why post this crap here? It’s already posted at DU.
What lying pricks!
They liked Ike in 1956. That is the last Republican they endorsed.
Newspaper of record, indeed. More like, newspaper of broken record.
Go broke, you b*stards! Go broke!
I wonder too if either one will keep the "Office of the President Elect" that 0bama created.
Vote for Clintoon because she’s not Donald Trump. Not much of an endorsement.
Vote for Clinton, because like her predecessor, she has a vagina.
Sulzberger’s Blog. :)
Just kidding!
:: The next president will take office with bigoted, tribalist movements ::
Like, say, BlackLivesMatter and urban gangs such as MS13, Crips, Bloods and Southside?
LOLOL!!!
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