Cleveland Plain Dealer Endorses Obama for President

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

Plain Dealer endorses Obama for president

Posted by The editors October 18, 2008 22:59PM

After eight years of George W. Bush, America needs a change in direction and a change in tone.

It needs a president who understands that, yes, the world can be dangerous, but it is also complex. That the United States cannot defend its freedom by abandoning its principles. That it cannot ignore its allies one day and demand their help the next.

It needs a president who knows that optimism, not fear, defines America. That tax cuts and deregulation alone are not an economic strategy. That Washington cannot sit idle when a great city is devastated by nature or when millions of hardworking Americans are devastated by losing their homes, their jobs, their health care.
It needs a president who will listen and learn, and not confuse loyalty with competence. Who will ask Americans to sacrifice in the service of their country, not their party or self-interest. Who will be the leader Bush promised eight years ago -- a unifier, not a divider.

Barack Obama can be that leader.

He is young and obviously cannot match the government experience of his Republican opponent, John McCain. But from the moment he electrified the 2004 Democratic Convention by declaring that America's shared values must trump its racial, religious and ideological divisions, Obama has demonstrated uncommon grace, confidence and intelligence.

Read more: http://blog.cleveland.com/pdopinion/2008/10/obama_for_president.html

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The Plain Dealer withheld endorsement in 2004.

:thumbsup:

They have been endorsing Republicans on the lamest bases for local races. There is no reason to replace county commissioner Peter Lawson Jones or Congressman Kucinich, but they wrote a twisted rationale for both races.

frickin-frackin Columbus Dispatch who endorsed McCain in a rant of bullshit that basically boiled down to "he was a POW and went through a lot of stuff". :puke: Not that I was surprised...oh well...there goes my subscription...

I hope my mom finally drops her subscription to the Dispatch. She's been telling me it's "moderate" for years and I've been telling her it's not, she'll probably agree today.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/6065490.html

Now THAT's progressive (as my insurer says)

Here is the latest chart of dailies. As always, we include in brackets who the paper went with in 2004 with B=Bush and K=Kerry.
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BARACK OBAMA
72 newspapers total
Over 9 million circulation (we are still counting)

ARKANSAS
Arkansas Times (K): 34,000

CALIFORNIA
The Argus (Fremont) (K): 26,749
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek) (K): 183,086
Daily Review (Hayward) (K): 30,704
The Fresno Bee (K): 150,334
La Opinion (Los Angeles) (K): 114,892
Los Angeles Times (N/A): 773,884
The Modesto Bee (K): 78,001
The Monterey County Herald (K): 28,933
Oakland Tribune (K): 96,535
The (Stockton) Record (B): 57,486
The Sacramento Bee (K): 288,755
San Bernardino Sun (B): 54,315
San Francisco Chronicle (K): 370,345
San Jose Mercury News (K): 234,772
San Mateo County Times (K): 25,982
Santa Cruz Sentinel (K): 23,290
Tri-Valley Herald (B): 29,759

COLORADO
Cortez Journal (K): 6,700
The Denver Post (B)
The Durango Herald (K): 8,870
Gunnison Country Times (N/A): 4,000
Ouray County Plaindealer (K): 3,000

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Washington Post (K): 673,180

FLORIDA
Miami Herald (K):
Naples Daily-News (B)

GEORGIA
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (K)

HAWAII
Honolulu Star-Bulletin (K): 64,305

ILLINOIS
Chicago Tribune (B): 541,663
Chicago Sun-Times (K):
Southwest News-Herald (K)

IOWA
The Storm Lake Times (K): 3,200

MAINE
Bangor Daily News (K)
Brunswick Times-Record (K)

MASSACHUSETTS
The Boston Globe (K): 350,605
The Standard-Times (New Bedford) (K): 30,306

MICHIGAN
Detroit Free Press (K):
The Muskegon Chronicle (K): 41,114

MISSOURI
Kansas City Star
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (K): 255,057

NEW MEXICO
Las Cruces Sun-News (B)
Santa Fe New Mexican (K): 25,249

NEW YORK
The Daily News (B) !!!
el Diario: 53,856

NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville Citizen-Times (K): 50,160
Wilmington Star-News (K)

OHIO
The (Toledo) Blade (K): 119,901
Dayton Daily News (K): 116,690
The (Canton) Repository (B): 65,789
Springfield News-Sun (K): 24,684
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

OREGON
Mail Tribune (Medford) (K): 30,349
The Oregonian of Portland (K)
Yamhill Valley News-Register

PENNSYLVANIA
The Express-Times (Easton) (B): 44,561
Philadelphia Inquirer (K):
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (K): 214,374

TENNESSEE
Chattanooga Times (K): 71,716
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (K): 146,961
The (Nashville) Tennessean (K): 161,131

TEXAS
The Lufkin Daily News (K): 12,225

UTAH
The Salt Lake Tribune (B):

VIRGINIA
Falls Church News-Press (K): 30,500

WASHINGTON
The Columbian (B): 44,623
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (K): 129,563
The Seattle Times (K): 220,883
Yakima Herald-Republic (B)

WEST VIRGINIA
The Charleston Gazette (K): 48,061
Huntington Herald-Dispatch (K)

WISCONSIN
The Capital Times (Madison) (K): 16,335
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930


JOHN McCAIN
18 newspapers total
About 1.7 million daily circulation

CALIFORNIA
Napa Valley Register: 16,283
The San Francisco Examiner (B): 80,000

COLORADO
Mountain Valley News (Cedaredge): 2,000
The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction) (B): 31,349
The Pueblo Chieftain (B): 49,169

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Washington DC Examiner (N/A): 100,073

FLORIDA
Tampa Tribune

MARYLAND
The Baltimore Examiner (N/A): 50,000

MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Herald (B): 182,350
The (Lowell) Sun (B): 44,439

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Foster’s Daily Democrat (B): 22,547
Union Leader (Manchester) (B): 51,782

NEW YORK
New York Post (B): 702,488

OHIO
The (Findlay) Courier (B): 22,319

TEXAS
Amarillo Globe-News (B): 44,764
Dallas Morning News (B):

WASHINGTON
(Spokane) Spokesman-Review (B): 89,779

WEST VIRGINIA
Wheeling News-Register (B): 12,821

Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune endorsed Obama on Oct. 17: (excerpt)

Out of nowhere, and without proper vetting, the impetuous McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. She quickly proved grievously underequipped to step into the presidency should McCain, at 72 and with a history of health problems, die in office. More than any single factor, McCain's bad judgment in choosing the inarticulate, insular and ethically challenged Palin disqualifies him for the presidency. ...

They are ridiculous

We might not be in some of the trouble we're in if more people had had the sense they're pretending to have now.

Because their fascist of a publisher at the time more or less told the editorial board, who was ready to give the Kerry endorsement by a slim margin, that "We endorse George W Bewsh or we endorse NO one. Period."

So, like any cowards who didn't stand up to those in power, they endorsed NO one. And Cuyahoga County went for Kerry, but was rife with electoral fraud, long waiting times (much like EVERY Dem precinct) and miscounted votes. The free dailies and national papers had a field day.

Alex Machaskee is and remains a corrupt bastard enabler who turned this paper into a laughingstock, much like his man Bewsh, who turned this country into one.

The Plain Dealer looks a little better in my eyes this morning, righting a great wrong for 8 years. You KNOW Brent Larkin and Kevin O'Brien didn't agree with this. But no matter.

Unbelievable that the Columbus ShitPatch STILL has a case of the stupids. Any paper who endorses McCain is just a McPravdan arm at this point. Bad Republican policies can never be cured by worse Republican policies. Does the Shitpatch think they're going to influence blue Franklin county with their bullshit endorsements?

I had hoped that the leaders of the Dispatch had woken up and seen daylight but apparently not.

their heads are exploding over their sausage and biscuits this morning. Those two hateful enablers (ESPECIALLY O'Brien, who will require surgery to ever remove his entire upper body from the repub party's ass) have done more damage to the PeeDee than anyone else besides Machaskee. I am delighted to see that the PeeDee is really going downhill in every way. The only thing that makes me feel bad about that is the fact that PeeDee employees are also being laid off and, as usual, it's the lower-level rank and file and not the mucky-mucks who are getting the ax. But that is the ONLY thing.

There are just a couple of things that I miss about Northeast Ohio after moving from there to South Dakota a few years ago, mainly family and friends. But I absolutely do NOT miss the PeeDee at all, and you know it's bad when the Rapid City Journal, frankly, is a much better paper than the PeeDee. I was home visiting for the holidays this past Christmas and I couldn't believe how far down the shitter the PeeDee had gone. It was really pathetic. And the thing is, a lot of it has happened since their bullshit refusal to make an endorsement four years ago. Ain't poetic justice sweet?

:kick:

That right-wing rag endorsed Obama. :spray: