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Washington Post Endorses Obama
President Obama picked up an endorsement by the Washington Post editorial board on Thursday, which also endorsed him in 2008.
The paper's editors write that while the president fell far short on several promises, including deficit reduction and entitlement reform, Mitt Romney's shifting positions simply don't deserve the confidence of voters:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/washington-post-endorses-obama
President Obama picked up an endorsement by the Washington Post editorial board on Thursday, which also endorsed him in 2008.
The paper's editors write that while the president fell far short on several promises, including deficit reduction and entitlement reform, Mitt Romney's shifting positions simply don't deserve the confidence of voters:
The sad answer is there is no way to know what Mr. Romney really believes. His unguarded expression of contempt for 47 percent of the population seems as sincere as anything else weve heard, but thats only conjecture. At times he has advocated a muscular, John McCain-style foreign policy, but in the final presidential debate he positioned himself as a dove. Before he passionately supported a fetuss right to life, he supported a womans right to abortion. His swings have been dramatic on gay rights, gun rights, health care, climate change and immigration. His ugly embrace of self-deportation during the Republican primary campaign, and his demolition of a primary opponent, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, for having left open a door of opportunity for illegal-immigrant children, bespeaks a willingness to say just about anything to win. Every politician changes his mind sometimes; youd worry if not. But rarely has a politician gotten so far with only one evident immutable belief: his conviction in his own fitness for higher office.
So voters are left with the centerpiece of Mr. Romneys campaign: promised tax cuts that would blow a much bigger hole in the federal budget while worsening economic inequality. His claims that he could avoid those negative effects, which defy math andwhich he refuses to back up with actual proposals, are more insulting than reassuring.
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Washington Post endorses President Obama (Original Post)
ProSense
Oct 2012
OP
The sad truth is that it appears that the WaPost didn't write about all of Obama's accomplishments
Liberal_Stalwart71
Oct 2012
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Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)1. more insulting than reassuring
thats the truth, everything about Romney's campaign has been insulting the intelligence of voters
FSogol
(45,488 posts)2. "The sad answer is there is no way to know what Mr. Romney really believes"
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)3. The sad truth is that it appears that the WaPost didn't write about all of Obama's accomplishments
While they told voters why Mitt Romney would be a disaster, they don't tell us why voters should support Obama, and there are many reasons why.
The WaPost reaches the entire Washington, D.C. metropolitan region, including most of Virginia.