My thanks to Scan for telling us about the endorsement in the NY Daily News, the fifth largest newspaper in the country. Without his post, I would not have seen the NYD article.
Even the Daily News sees the folly in the Democrat argument that Obama inherited a worse economy than realized and it is improving. Here is a quote from the article.
"Recovery from the disaster that Obama inherited was going to take time. But four years is a long, long slog. Had the President guided a typical upswing, America would by now have regained essentially all its lost jobs. At his present pace, Obama would reach that milestone in the third year of a second term.
First came emergency economic stimulus… After originally projecting that the program would produce 4 million more jobs than the country now has, along with a 5% jobless rate, Obama pleads that he saved Americans from more dire straits.
Next came Obamacare… the typical family’s health insurance premium has risen and many businesses will experience a hike of $70 per week per employee, further restraining wages or producing part-time jobs that lack coverage."
The NY Daily News is and remains a strong liberal leaning paper. For them to come out against Obama strongly as they do here leaves me speechless.
They go down Obama’s record and Romney’s platform point by point. They actually do a fair assessment of strengths, weaknesses and come to the following conclusion.
"Romney’s approach is the stronger. Critically, he has tailored his policies to create jobs, jobs, jobs.
Romney’s energy plan calls for reemphasizing oil and natural gas production, in a shift away from Obama’s tilt toward trying to develop wind and solar into workable alternatives.
His proposal for Medicare would permit future retirees to choose between tried-and-true health care and private insurance to produce savings through competition. It took political bravery even to broach such concepts, and they are well worth exploring.
His immigration strategy entails markedly increasing visas for highly skilled workers, such as engineers and computer scientists, who are in short supply in the United States — and are proven jobs generators. Obama let economic energy go by the boards by declining to up these H1-B work permits."
In the end, the paper’s endorsement came down to who could better get the country back on sound economic footing. It concluded its editorial with:
“The presidential imperative of the times is to energize the economy and get deficits under control to empower the working and middle classes to again enjoy the fruits of an ascendant America.
“So the News is compelled to stand with Romney.”
I was shocked to read this article in the NY Daily News!!!
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/choi … 6299?print
Replies:
Posted by: NofieldFive on November 6, 2012, 12:46 am
Audie
Posted by: sevenout on November 6, 2012, 3:19 pm
My, maybe times are a changing.
Posted by: Dominator on November 8, 2012, 1:17 pm
Dominator
