All four major Iowa newspapers back Romney
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a rally at Defiance High School, in Defiance, Ohio, October 25, 2012. / Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
As far as newspaper endorsements are concerned, Mitt Romney made a clean sweep in Iowa: all four major newspapers, including the state's largest paper, The Des Moines Register, backed Mitt Romney.
The Register's editorial board said it engaged in a "vigorous debate" over whom to endorse this election. Ultimately, the newspaper that hasn't backed a Republican since Richard Nixon in 1972, decided to throw its weight behind the Republican nominee.
Central to the editorial board's decision is who has a better chance of working with Congress. "When the question is framed in those terms, Mitt Romney emerges the stronger candidate," the editorial board wrote. They cautioned Romney, however, on "wasting time on issues that animate many in his party."
The Cedar Rapids Gazette's editorial board said President Obama "made his mark during his historic first term" with passage of the health care law, reforms to the financial sector and investments in green energy, but they say the president has "come up short" on the economy and debt.
Simply put, the Quad City Times' editorial board wrote, "We invested heavily in hope back in 2008. Our 2012 endorsement of Mitt Romney comes with an imperative for change." The Sioux City Journal editorial board offered a similar assessment: "We are neither satisfied nor confident. In our view, change is needed."
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Romney also received the endorsements of a couple of Ohio newspapers this weekend, including the Cincinnati Enquirer. "This is a precarious time for America. We'd expect a President Romney to lead toward the center, to resist the calls for a hard turn to the right that are sure to come from within his party," they wrote.
Mr. Obama picked up the endorsement of an Ohio newspaper as well. The Toledo Blade editorial board wrote that "the choice between the candidates is clear and momentous." However, they offered a measured assessment of the president, saying he has said "too little" about entitlement reform, climate change, oil and gas production, gun control and mass incarceration. "But Mr. Romney's prescriptions on such matters, to the extent he has any, are worse."
Newspapers elsewhere also threw their support behind the president this weekend.
The Detroit Free Press editorial board called Mr. Obama's record "stunning." They pointed to the auto bailout, the Affordable Care Act health care law and the end of the war in Iraq and the near end of the war in Afghanistan. "Romney has been a shape-shifter, his message twisting and reconfiguring itself to fit the needs of the moment," the editorial board wrote about the Republican who was born in Michigan and whose father was governor there five decades ago.
The president received the backing of major newspapers in the battleground states of North Carolina and Pennsylvania. The Raleigh News and Observer editorial board wrote that "the president has accomplished much in his first term" and that he would continue to fight for the middle class.
"There will be no stimulus money for jobs, regulations will be cut back severely on the environment and Wall Street (where the recession was hatched due to loose rules in the first place) and, of course, the well-to-do will be showered with tax cuts," the editorial board at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette wrote. "Because we still hope, we endorse for president Barack Obama, whose heart -- unlike his challenger -- has not wavered nor his principles changed."
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and on a much lighter note. See what Joss Whedon the writer and director of The Avengers had to say about Romney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TiXUF9xbTo&feature=g-logo
That being the case, I'm impressed that ANY newspapers are endorsing Obama, despite the fact that their owners will have to pay more taxes!
The citizens of the United States have been lied to by their president at least twice before. Richard Nixon lied about his cover-up of the Watergate break-in, leading to his decision to resign before he was impeached. William Clinton lied about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky and was ultimately impeached. While the conduct of both of these presidents was despicable, their conduct pales by comparison of that of Barrack Obama.
As the records and testimony have been coming forth over the last few weeks, it is now well-established that efforts to protect Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and the Benghazi compound on September 11, 2012 were grossly lacking and bordering on no-existent. Obama was well aware withing no more than two hours after it began that the Benghazi compound was being attacked by a well-organized militia group and yet failed to take any action. Then, after Ambassador Stevens and three other highly-respected Americans were killed, Obama chose to distract Americans from his negligence in securing the compound and his cowardice in failing to protect the Americans under attack. Rather than being honest, he chose to attempt to deflect what really happened and direct attention to an anti-Muslim video which had absolutely nothing to do with the attack and to falsely claim that the attack was due to a mob reacting to that video that got out of hand.
Details at benghazi-obama-cover-up.webs. com
Employment
a. Unemployment dropped to 7.8 percent in September 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That marks the first time unemployment has dropped below 8 percent since January 2009. (National Conf. Of State Legislatures, 10/5/12.)
b. The Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms that a lot of jobs have been created under Obama's leadership -- 4.4 million by the bureau's latest count. However, the nation shed 4.3 million jobs during the early days of Obama's term, and that the net gain since he took the oath of office in January 2009 is just 125,000 jobs. (CNN Politics, 10/5/12.)
c. There were 2.6 million long-term unemployed workers when Obama became President. Now there are 5.3 million.
d. There are 23 million people who are either unemployed, have stopped looking for work or are underemployed (working for less money than before or able to find only a part-time job). (U.S. Chamber of Commercie, American Jobs & Growth Agenda; CNN Politics, 10/5/12; Toby Harnden, "'Are you better off?': No, gaffes Democrat senator as Obama heads to DNC with 23 million Americans unemployed, a shrinking middle class and a $16 trillion debt, Daily Mail, 9/4/2012; USDebtclock.org [22.7 million].)
e. The Department of Labor calculates the employment-population ratio, which measures the percent of the U.S. adult population that has a job. The rate currently stands at 58.7%. It has essentially been stuck there for three years -- close to the lowest level since the 1980s. "The employment-to-population ratio is the best measure of labor market conditions and it currently shows that there has been almost no improvement whatsoever over the past three years," Paul Ashworth, chief North American economist for Capital Economics said. (CNN Money, 10/18/12.)
Welfare Expenditures
a. Food stamp are now provided to 47,0650,721 recipients. (USDebtClock.org.) This is an increase of 47% from 32 million before Obama took office. (Washington Times, 10/18/12.)
b. Federal welfare spending has grown by 32 percent over the past four years. (Washington Times, 10/18/12.)
c. The government's health care and welfare expenditures for the most recent year is $1.4 trillion. (USGovernmentSpending.com)
d. Welfare programs, excluding social security and medicare, now exceed on $1 trillion a year. (Heritage Foundation, 10/22/12; Washington Times, 10/18/12.) That makes welfare the single biggest chunk of federal spending — topping Social Security and basic defense spending. (Washington Times, 10/18/12.)
e. The total federal spending on federal welfare programs vastly outpaced fiscal year 2011 spending on such federal expenditures as non-war defense ($540 billion), Social Security ($725 billion), Medicare ($480 billion), and departments such as Justice ($30.5 billion), Transportation ($77.3 billion) and Education ($65.486 billion). (The Daily Caller, 10/18/12.)
f. The federal government runs over 80 means-tested programs providing cash, food, housing, medical care and social services to around 100 million Americans. That's a third of the U.S. population. Combined federal and state expenditures on these programs come to roughly $9,000 per recipient per year. (Heritage Foundation, 10/22/12.)
g. According to Obama's budget plans it would continue to grow in the next decade, reaching $1.56 trillion by 2022. (Heritage Foundation, 10/22/12.)
Somehow those "hypocrite farmers" who are "stealing" welfare aren't as important as the inner-city baby-daddies benefiting from the same welfare? Except that the farmers are putting food on YOUR table.
Here's the problem, you addle minded republican neocons are as phony as democrats and liberals, and like them, your brains are so defective you can't conceive anyone actually thinking for themselves, therefore if they don;t eat the feces of the your candidates, they must be the other goys prostitute. Sorry chump, you play your little sandbox games while the rest of the world evolves. What's sad i my txes are going to have to support your sorry behind somedy.
http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/breaking-retired-nsa-analyst-proves-gop-is-stealing-elections/article20598.html
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20121024/NEWS09/121024003/After-editor-s-blog-President-Obama-releases-transcript-of-Register-interview
I'm not even going to quote from it. Go read it.
They endorse Romney for his vision of the future (which he hasn't bothered to share in detail with anyone, and what he HAS shared is either mathematically impossible or directly contradicts his OWN POSITIONS) and on the theory that he will get more cooperation from Congress (like we WANT the Tea Party to run roughshod over our civil rights and shut down the social safety net while giving tax cuts to the rich and increasing the deficit).