Seattle Times endorses Kerry !

This newspaper endorsed Bush 4 yrs. ago and is the more conservative of our two papers.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2002016659_kerryed27.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2002016656_jfklist.html

very interesting - they are very conservative.

But that's EXACTLY what the repukes have been fighting since (and before) the New Deal, and one which has escalated in the past 25 years.

While I'm glad to see the endorsement, this kind of BS should not go unanswered.

Funny how it is "class warfare" to raise taxes on the mega wealthy but it isn't "class warfare" to reduce taxes on the mega wealthy.

Never has so much political bluster been spent on helping so few.

The Blethens are currently locked in a death struggle with Hearst over the future of your city as a two-paper town.

They probably are going to need a little help from the DOJ (read: Bush administration) in order to win that case.

And an aside about the Hearst Corporation: it behaves a lot like the Busheviks when it comes to the competition: they employ a Rove-like scorched-earth strategy that enables vanquishment.

They did it in San Antonio, where they owned the smaller of the two dailies. The S.A. Light actually fired all of their employees (except the publisher, who was promoted to executive management, where he manages all of the Hearst Corp. newspapers today) and ceased publication without putting out a final edition on the day Hearst completed the purchase of the Express-News from Rupert Murdoch.

They did it in Houston (the significantly larger Chronicle simply ground Dean Singleton's Post into the dirt, albeit on the basis of fabricated circulation figures).

And they did it in San Francisco (the smaller fish again swallowed the larger, although the poor Examiner -- W.R. Hearst Sr.'s very first paper -- was unable to digest the Chronicle and it died and floated to the bottom where Ted Fang assembled the bones and sold it for a hefty profit, and... but I digress ;) ).

The P-I, as you say, has always been the liberal voice there, so I find it very interesting that they would endorse Kerry -- and so soon.

They obviously don't just want him to win, they are betting their future that he will.

Sweet.