Newspaper Endorsements

Barack Obama:

A few days ago the Seattle Times endorsed the president for re-election:

In 2008, Barack Obama was The Seattle Times’ choice for president. Four years later, we endorse him again, with less enthusiasm. But he is a better choice than Mitt Romney, and could still go down in history as a good president.

Not much chance in that. The paper thinks Obama's education policy is "good." You've got to be kidding.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch also says he should be re-elected:

Four years ago, in endorsing Democrat Barack Obama for president, we noted his intellect, his temperament and equanimity under pressure. He was unproven, but we found him to be presidential, in all that that word implies.

In that, we have not been disappointed. This is a serious man. And now he is a proven leader. He has earned a second term.

Mr. Obama sees an America where the common good is as important as the individual good. That is the vision on which the nation was founded. It is the vision that has seen America through its darkest days and illuminated its best days. It is the vision that underlies the president's greatest achievement, the Affordable Care Act. Twenty years from now, it will be hard to find anyone who remembers being opposed to Obamacare.

He continues to steer the nation through the most perilous economic challenges since the Great Depression. Those who complain that unemployment remains high, or that economic growth is too slow, either do not understand the scope of the catastrophe imposed upon the nation by Wall Street and its enablers, or they are lying about it.

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Mitt Romney:

Colorado Springs Gazette:

He projects passion for prosperity, freedom and a military so strong that no force on earth would stand a chance of harming us. It is with great enthusiasm that we encourage Americans to vote for Mitt Romney, who may be exactly the person we need for a renewed focus on life, liberty and private pursuits of happiness.

In a meeting with The Gazette’s editorial board on Monday, Gov. Romney laid out a plan and vision for America that is in stark contrast to the president’s. He summarized President Obama’s philosophy as “government-centered, government-intensive ... which has never worked anywhere in the history of the world.”

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The North County Times in California:

President Barack Obama is a good and decent man ---- a loyal husband and loving father, a man motivated by admirable impulses to help the less fortunate among us.

He is a strong role model for America's youth, and if he was not our choice for president four years ago, we believe he has done his best as he sees it to improve our nation.

While acknowledging the many good things President Obama has done, as we look ahead to the next four years, we believe his basic philosophic framework has consistently proven the wrong approach to addressing our nation's serious, systemic financial challenges.

Unemployment has continued at extremely high levels ---- and is worse than the official figures indicate, because hundreds of thousands of people have simply given up looking for a job and no longer count among the unemployed.