Awesome Obama endorsement from St. Louis Post-Dispatch

[Nancy Waterman]

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_c5371a41-ab43-5724-96e2-2d23eaa56589.html#.UHAwxdV1F8M.twitter

Four years ago, in endorsing Democrat Barack Obama for president, we noted his intellect, his temperament and equanimity under pressure. He was unproven, but we found him to be presidential, in all that that word implies. In that, we have not been disappointed. This is a serious man. And now he is a proven leader. He has earned a second term.

Mr. Obama sees an America where the common good is as important as the individual good. That is the vision on which the nation was founded. It is the vision that has seen America through its darkest days and illuminated its best days. It is the vision that underlies the president's greatest achievement, the Affordable Care Act. Twenty years from now, it will be hard to find anyone who remembers being opposed to Obamacare.

He continues to steer the nation through the most perilous economic challenges since the Great Depression. Those who complain that unemployment remains high, or that economic growth is too slow, either do not understand the scope of the catastrophe imposed upon the nation by Wall Street and its enablers, or they are lying about it. To expect Barack Obama to have repaired, in four years, what took 30 years to undermine, is simply absurd. He might have gotten further had he not been saddled with an opposition party, funded by plutocrats, that sneers at the word compromise. But even if Mr. Obama had had Franklin Roosevelt's majorities, the economy would still be in peril.

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Mr. Romney apparently will say anything that will help him win an election. As a president, he might well govern as a pragmatic chief executive, or he might sell himself to the plutocrats and the crazies who have taken over his party. He is asking Americans to take a lot on faith — there's nothing to see in his tax returns; he can cut taxes and whack away debt while trimming deductions he will not specify.

Mr. Romney's business career is the only way to judge his foundational beliefs: He did not run a company that built things and created jobs and strong communities. He became fabulously wealthy by loading up companies with tax-deductible debt, taking millions out up front along with big management fees. Some companies were saved. Others went bankrupt. Mr. Romney's firm always got out before the bills came due, either in lost jobs, bankruptcies or both. If the nation's most pressing issue is debt, why elect a president whose entire business career was based on loading up companies with debt?

[BlueToTheBone]

1. k & r

:kick:

[janx]

2. Very thoughtfully written.

This is my hometown newspaper, and it was funny to see one of my old friends swear in the comments!

He'll survive.

[treestar]

3. That is well done

And shows that we are starting to value seriousness and real facts rather than showing lies. Like Rmoney's so called "businesss success" which is not about building up a company, but about making money by manipulating things.

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. kick