Sunday, October 17, 2004

NYT Endorses John Kerry

Hallefuckinlujah! Read this editorial in today's NY Times:

We have been impressed with Mr. Kerry's wide knowledge and clear thinking - something that became more apparent once he was reined in by that two-minute debate light. He is blessedly willing to re-evaluate decisions when conditions change. And while Mr. Kerry's service in Vietnam was first over-promoted and then over-pilloried, his entire life has been devoted to public service, from the war to a series of elected offices. He strikes us, above all, as a man with a strong moral core

Along with the invasion of Afghanistan, which had near unanimous international and domestic support, Mr. Bush and his attorney general put in place a strategy for a domestic antiterror war that had all the hallmarks of the administration's normal method of doing business: a Nixonian obsession with secrecy, disrespect for civil liberties and inept management

We have specific fears about what would happen in a second Bush term, particularly regarding the Supreme Court.

If he wins re-election, domestic and foreign financial markets will know the fiscal recklessness will continue.

The Bush White House has always given us the worst aspects of the American right without any of the advantages.

We look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted. Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and again he chose the wrong course. We believe that with John Kerry as president, the nation will do better.

Sometimes these New Yorkers are pretty smart.

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