Boston Globe: New Hampshire should go to Hillary Clinton

[brooklynite]

America looks different in 2016 than it did the last time Hillary Clinton ran for president: The economy has come out of free fall, the military has left the quagmire of the Iraq war, barriers to equality have toppled, and universal access to health care has become a reality. Tumultuous as they’ve been, the Barack Obama years have proved transformative — and the priority for Democratic voters should be to protect, consolidate, and extend those gains.

Today, the nation has new challenges, which require a different kind of leader — someone who can keep what Obama got right, while also fixing his failures, especially on gun control and immigration reform. That will require a focus and toughness that Obama sometimes lacked. This is Clinton’s time, and the Globe enthusiastically endorses her in the Feb. 9 Democratic primary in New Hampshire. She is more seasoned, more grounded, and more forward-looking than in 2008, and has added four years as secretary of state to her already formidable resume. Democrats in the Granite State should not hesitate to choose her.

As the recent spate of mass shootings has made tragically clear, the next president will face a crisis of gun violence. Firearms killed more than 33,000 Americans in 2013. The intransigence of Congressional Republicans who’ve blocked reform can hardly be blamed on Obama, but it has become clear that he won’t be able to make a dent in the problem before leaving office.

Clinton promises to close the kind of loopholes that allowed killers like Dylann Roof to obtain weapons, and to lift restrictions on federally funded research into gun violence. She also supports reimposing the federal ban on assault weapons, which expired under George W. Bush.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/01/24/new-hampshire-should-hillary-clinton/4wMHbvMFAB5onZZnBC5FqL/story.html?s_campaign=bostonglobe%3Asocialflow%3Atwitter

[lunamagica]

1. K&R. YEEESSSS!

[riversedge]

2. .@HillaryClinton is "like a fine wine, she just keeps getting better.”...

Dan Schwerin ‏@DanSchwerin 1d1 day ago

.@HillaryClinton is "like a fine wine, she just keeps getting better.”

Photo from OP link:



he best reason to support Clinton isn’t the weaknesses of her opponents; it’s her demonstrated strengths and experience.
By The Editorial Board January 24, 2016

[Fawke Em]

5. Wine gives me heartburn.

And, so does Hillary.

[riversedge]

12. That is your problem.

[Voice for Peace]

10. Can't support dishonest manipulation of voters.

I can't!
CAN'T!

[hobbit709]

11. And some wine turns into vinegar fairly quickly.

[riversedge]

21. Not fine wines.

[hobbit709]

22. Happened not that long ago to a 200 year old bottle-it was opened and it was bad.

[beltanefauve]

47. Depends on how well it's stored

And how slowly or quickly the tannins break down.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

42. When are you going to break out the beach pics?

[highprincipleswork]

3. So very glad that "The Boston Globe" thinks it can tell NH who to vote for. NOT

SARCASM!

[brooklynite]

15. So very glad that "Killer Mike" thinks he can tell Black voters who to vote for...

Is that how it works?

[highprincipleswork]

20. Vote for who you want, and particularly who you believe in.

[morningfog]

39. Killer Mike is a political voice and thinker of the hip hop

Community. The Globe is not that for NH.

[retrowire]

40. do tell us where he told the black community who to vote for.

lmao I'll wait

[Lazy Daisy]

43. Well no

Boston is in Massachusetts
Killer Mike is black

See the difference?

Now if it were a New Hampshire newspaper, you might have a valid point.

[brooklynite]

48. Boston is about 20 miles from New Hampshire...

...and people there read the Boston Globe. Perhaps you haven't visited?

(psst...expect the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer to endorse in New Jersey. And Expect the Washington Post to endorse in Virginia and Maryland).

[Lazy Daisy]

57. Perhaps

Or perhaps that's a big NO too. *self editing here*

I've had the pleasure of being well traveled in the US. I've also had the pleasure of residing in quite a few states, much of the time close to the border of another.

(psst.....people in Chicago, Phoenix, and even L.A. read those papers too. Still doesn't put Boston in New Hampshire)

[brooklynite]

60. Except that the Boston Globe has a New Hampshire Bureau Chief...and covers NH stories.

[Fawke Em]

4. When did Boston move to New Hamphsire?

In any case, it won't go to Hillary, so it doesn't matter.

[enid602]

28. boston

A lot of people in NH live in Boston's northern suburbs. The Globe is their paper.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

45. "A lot of people in NH live in Boston's northern suburbs."

That was a horribly provincial thing to write. People that live in NH don't need the Globe or the Herald, rag that it is, to tell them anything.

The Globe is a paper in the age of the 21st century internet.

Welcome to it.

[enid602]

49. metro Boston

Rockingham County and Strafford County, NH (with a combined population of 421,939, per Wikipedia) are part of the Boston suburbs. The entire state of NH only has 1.3 million inhabitants. Just saying.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

52. Boston is in Massachusetts. Lots of New Hampshireites may live near Boston, but that does

not mean that they are swayed by Boston.

Do you live in the area, because if you do you show an acute naivete'.

[enid602]

55. No

No, I live in Phoenix, but have read of Bostonians moving to NH. Btw, thanks for 'Hampshirites;' I was wondering what they were called.

[virgogal]

53. Huh? If they live in Boston's Northern suburbs they

aren't "in" New Hampshire.

They can't even vote there.

[Agschmid]

54. Southern NH is considered "suburbs" of Boston.

Trust me I sit in the traffic every damn day.

[restorefreedom]

7. more establishment bs

what is bernie up by like 17 points now?

yeah, sure..,she is going to win nh.....

[Bad Bad JuJu]

8. America does not yet "look different" enough.

46 million Americans in poverty. 5.5 million young people neither working nor in school. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-khazei/mlk-jr-day-of-service-201_b_9008830.html
I'd say the Boston Globe's priorities are skewed.

[Fumesucker]

9. "Universal access to health care?"

Globe editorialists are bogarting the good shit.

[Kalidurga]

14. No shit

I was reading the first paragraph from Bizarro World. If we had all that shit then why is Hillary attacking Bernie on his plan to actually get access to healthcare for all. She should be like Bernie Bernie um Bernie we already have that try campaigning for something we don't have like reduced military spending oh wait he's on that. Okay like um free college oh wait he's on that too. Um breaking up the big banks, oh wait...

[Voice for Peace]

13. "This is Clinton's time, and...."

...and most of us don't agree on that point.

[mhatrw]

30. It's Brave New Neoliberalism!

Meet the New Boss.

[scottie55]

44. Same As The Old Boss

And the boss before that.

[Arugula Latte]

56. "This is Clinton's time" is basically the entire premise of her campaign.

"It's my turn! Gimme! Gimme! Don't ask too many questions! I want my Oompa Loompa!"

[Voice for Peace]

58. Lol

Waaaaaaaaaah waaaaaaaaaaah

[TransitJohn]

16. LOL at universal acess to healthcare has become a reality.

As if being forced to purchase worthless for-profit insurance is the same thing as getting actual health care.

[Iliyah]

17. That's their opinion. Same with the "Nation" endorsement for BS.

What happened to freedom of speech and opinions. This place apparently doesn't believe in it.

[Armstead]

36. The Globe has freedom of speech....As do those who don't agree with them

What? Bernie supporters are supposed to say "The Globe supports Clinton.Gosh I'm so happy. They're absolutely correct."

I think not

[reformist2]

18. These Establishment people sure are repetitive.

[Iliyah]

19. Oh K & R for the First Amendment

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Yeah, it's good that we all support that thing.

At least, most of the time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/opinion/senator-clinton-in-pander-mode.html

[Iliyah]

25. Yeah and when we don't worship your candidate than we get harassed.

I don't like your revolution.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. If you want an echo chamber, there are plenty available.

Like I said, I'm glad people recognize how important the first amendment is, despite the fact that their preferred candidate offered up blatantly anti-1A pandering legislation as detailed in that NY Times article, AND as recently as a couple months ago brushed off any potential objections to her call for government to get in the internet censorship business with "you'll hear all the usual complaints, you know, freedom of speech et cetera".

[mhatrw]

32. We don't like your status quo. nt

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

46. "I don't like your revolution."

Are you channeling Marie Antoinette?


Careful now. Don't lose your head.

[Thinkingabout]

23. K & R, good post, we continue to the ultimate goal.

Winning in NH would be good.

[morningfog]

31. Winning NH ain't gonna happen for Hillary.

Bernie has an unprecedented lead there, the largest of a non-incumbent in the modern era. Hillary will lose big there. Guaranteed.

[farleftlib]

35. Absolutely, what was the point of that article I wonder

She has no chance there whatsoever.

[morningfog]

37. It only raises an impossible expectation.

And calls into questions the Globe's credibility.

[Odin2005]

27. Idiocy, pure idiocy.

Especially the stuff on healthcare.

And Bernie appeals more to folks in Middle America Who don't like the Big City gun-grabbing rhetoric.

[mhatrw]

33. Exactly. "Hillary will grab more guns" was issue-oriented gist of the endorsement.

The rest was pure invention and rhetoric.

[John Poet]

29. Hillary's time was 2004!

We could have used a Democratic heavyweight that year to take out Bush.

Instead, she played it safe, and put her own political self-interest ahead of the country.




Her time is past.

[mhatrw]

34. She has made herself into the perfect candidate for the year 2000.

Ultra-experienced, "pragmatically centrist", and establishment endorsed out the ying yang.

Too bad for her and the rest of of the political and corporate establishment that it is 2016.

[asuhornets]

38. Excellent article..

Democrats know that we need a President that will expand the accomplishments of President Obama not eliminate them.

Go Hillary

[litlbilly]

41. OH please

[Live and Learn]

50. Too bad the Boston Globe doesn't get to pick New Hampsire's winner.

[Smarmie Doofus]

51. A lot of people move to NH to get *away* from The Globe. n/t

[jfern]

59. Ahh yes, some 20th century media outlet in Massachusetts clearly decides who wins NH elections

[bunnies]

61. Bullshit. NH should go to whomever we choose. Worry about your own state, Globe.

[riversedge]

62. Did you know that the Boston Globe has a significant reach into NH?

[bunnies]

63. Um. Yeah. I live here. nt

[riversedge]

66. ah. ok. Have a good day.

[Vinca]

64. I don't think it will. Not from what I'm seeing on the ground here.

It occurred to me this morning I haven't seen one Clinton sign.

[Eric J in MN]

65. There is no evidence that the FBI wanted more time to do its background check on Dylann Roof.

The editors of the Boston Globe write, "Clinton promises to close the kind of loopholes that allowed killers like Dylann Roof to obtain weapons" as if it's a certainty that the FBI would have told the gun store he's ineligible if it could have asked for more time.

[frylock]

67. Kicking for the lulz