Posted on 10/24/2004 8:59:56 PM PDT by mhking
As in many past elections, Americans are closely divided over who should be the next president. It's not a clear-cut case of one candidate being far superior to the other. Yet history is not made by those who stand on the sidelines and wring their hands. The people must choose on Nov. 2, and The Courant recommends George W. Bush over John F. Kerry.
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wow.
Sweet!
Wow. News lately has been almost too good.
Lovely!
Superb!!!!!!!!
So I take it this is out of character for this paper??? I don't think I have ever read them.
VERY out of character for the Courant.
This has to be the most amazing happening in the last 50 years!
I am tempted to think that the end of the age is upon us.
It makes the recent dire polling results even harder to credit.
Except for the fraud factor, this should be a blow out.
Amazing...when even liberals get it.
Checking calender... nope, not April 1.
I'm guessing it may have been Warren Harding...
It wouldn't surprise me -- I'm guessing that no one here was alive whenever it happened...
Are you KIDDING? I have a friend from that area, or at least she lived there a few years ago. Hard to believe they gave the well earned endorsement to the President.
I know what you mean .. 4 very lefty papers in in CALIFORNIA have endorsed Bush. I've been in shock most of the day.
At Hillary's suggestion, no doubt!
You CANNOT be serious.
That rag has been dumping all over Bush for the last three years and won't EVER publish a single letter critical of itself.
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Staggering. All I can say is wow.
This is incredible:
"Mr. Bush should have shown more patience before invading Iraq. Given more time, the continuing sanctions and the encouragement of homegrown Iraqi resistance, it might have been possible to drive Saddam Hussein from power with far less bloodshed and with a coalition as solid and committed as the one formed by President George H.W. Bush in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Still, the dictator posed a threat to peace. Now he is gone and Iraq and the world are better off without him. And if the president's optimistic plans work out, some form of representative government for Iraqis is in the offing.
Mr. Bush has not been a one-dimensional president concerned only with security; nor has he been a leader content to press an agenda of small ideas. He has marshaled support in Congress for big - some would say historic - domestic initiatives.
The president's tax cuts have helped to stimulate growth and shake off the effects of a particularly persistent recession that began before he took office and was made worse by 9/11. The economy is growing at a decent rate and jobs are starting to come back. Tax relief was the right thing to do; it's too bad that the cuts are being jeopardized by reckless spending in Congress.
Mr. Bush rallied bipartisan support for the No Child Left Behind act that seeks to improve teaching and student performance and hold failing schools accountable. Washington needs to fully fund implementation of the law, as promised, and modify federal rules to give states flexibility to exempt certain students from tests. But make no mistake: This Bush initiative has the potential to transform public education.
Using Republican majorities in Congress, Mr. Bush succeeded in making more changes in Medicare than at any other time since the vital program was enacted 40 years ago. The changes are intended to stabilize the health care program for seniors and the disabled and give recipients a prescription drug benefit for the first time."
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