Detroit Free Press Endorses John Kerry

[ScreamingMeemie]

It's a beautiful day!

http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/eprez4_20041004.htm

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ENDORSEMENT: On Iraq, national security, the economy and more, John Kerry would offer more effective leadership
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Four years ago, George W. Bush promised America he was "a uniter, not a divider." Today, the nation is more divided in more ways than it has been since the turbulent 1960s. The president has failed, or refused, to pursue consensus on America's problems and instigated solutions that have produced results ranging from mixed to disastrous.

As president, Bush has plunged America into a costly war under false premises, alienated nations with whom America should be mapping a global strategy against terrorism, managed the most secretive administration in modern times, run up huge budget deficits, deceived Congress on the cost of a Medicare drug plan, and effectively denied women around the world access to information about reproductive health.

Since courageously uniting and rallying the nation following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Bush has become a polarizing figure at home and abroad. He, at least, is sufficiently resolute in his course and convictions that he doesn't appeared troubled by that. But he ought to be. Nobody is right about everything all the time.
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[kerryin2004]

1. How about that..

I thought that paper was a repuke rag...Call me surpised!

[Lefty48197]

8. Don't let the URL fool you! Freep.com is one of OUR sites!

.

[yellowcanine]

2. Anyone know who they endorsed in 2000?

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. They gave Gore an 11th hour tepid endorsement.

:hi:

[Stew225]

4. Cool, that's the paper for which Mitch Albom writes.

His show is on WJR in Detroit from 3-6 in the afternoon. He's always been very open minded and calls it the way he sees it. Therefore, if one listens they would detect a Kerry slant.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Agreed. I love it that he is sandwiched between Rush and Hannity.

Although I do think they try to reign him in too much. "The Great Voice of the Great Moral Majority" :puke:

[Demeter]

5. Too Late! I Cancelled my Subscription MONTHS Ago!

I think we've got some momentum here, folks! Better late than never.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. I did too. They were starting to smell a bit. But this is a ringing

endorsement. I thought they were incapable of it after the lukewarm Gore endorsement. I will continue to keep my eye on them via internet and perhaps re up. :hi:

[UrbScotty]

9. Try getting The Grand Rapids Press to endorse Kerry.

:eyes: