The NY Times endorses Obama…
… Not really a surprise if you ask me …
But the opening paragraph kinda left my head spinning.
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable.
– The New York Times Endorses Barack Obama
… Now. As you all probably know, I’m really not a fan of Bush and what he’s done over the past 8 years. He’s a fascist and a war criminal… But, who am I to say that?
The NYTimes though, have through the last 8 years, been a liberal news paper, with decidedly left positions on things, but also a paper that as journalism goes, does a good job of being balanced in its presentation of most things, and have had the credit of offering the objective news, as much as they could. At times I was angry at them for not simply stating the opinion, when all they would do is state the fact. But that is what good journalism is supposed to do. Report the facts, and let us as readers do the judgment.
Its never that cut and dry, never. But at the least, the grey lady was as even handed as it could have been.
To read though, in this Editorial, such a scathing summation of the last 8 years under George W. Bush, has me a bit surprised. The language they chose left no room for forgiveness or acceptance of what might be argued was a difficult time, fraught with challenges… and clearly states that he failed, and made things worse.
Its nothing new to most of my readers that I am not a fan of Bush, as I said. But this is the first time I’ve seen a major news source of our land state so clearly, and succinctly exactly what I’ve thought for all that time as well…