Las Cruces Sun-Times endorses Obama: U.S. president Our choice: Barack Obama

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Presidential elections are a choice, not a referendum. The other choice this year is Mitt Romney, a flawed candidate who was the last man standing after a Republican primary in which the best and brightest of the party chose to sit this one out. That left it to the likes of Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, as GOP voters lurched from one to another in an anyone-but-Romeny parade. In the end, they settled for Romney.

Romney has offered a tax plan that doesn't add up, and an immigration policy that would be disastrous for New Mexico, saying he wants to use Arizona's law as a model for the nation. He advocated letting the auto industry go bankrupt and has selected for his running mate the architect of a plan to turn Medicare into a vouchers program.

We believe the country has turned the corner and is heading in the right direction under Obama. Given the intentional vagueness of his proposals and his many reversals on core positions, we're not sure which direction Romney would lead us.

http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-opinion/ci_21759576/u-s-president-our-choice-barack-obama

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