2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"The president has earned a second term. Romney, in whatever guise, does not deserve a first"
Salt Lake Tribune has endorsed Obama. ~ pinto
Too many Mitts
Obama has earned another term.
Therefore, our endorsement must go to the incumbent, a competent leader who, against tough odds, has guided the country through catastrophe and set a course that, while rocky, is pointing toward a brighter day. The president has earned a second term. Romney, in whatever guise, does not deserve a first.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55019844-82/romney-obama-state-president.html.csp
NightOwwl
(5,453 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)Raster
(20,996 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)the only Salt Lake Tribune I'm aware of is located in Salt Lake City, Utah! The This-is-the-Place place, home of the Mormon church, Brigham Young's multitudinous progeny, just up the road from BYU, you know, all that stuff!
Is it Backwards Day?
edited for spelling
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)shocking to see a newspaper not close ranks around one of their own.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)I used to live in SLC and, as a non-Mormon, I've never seen their equal for tribal solidarity...not even the Republican Party can equal them.
drm604
(16,230 posts)Do they usually tend to support Republicans or Democrats?
renegade000
(2,301 posts)They endorsed Obama in 2008, but Bush in 2004. Didn't check further back in time.
drm604
(16,230 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,433 posts)Obamas foreign policy record is perhaps his strongest suit, especially compared to Romneys bellicose posture toward Russia and China and his inflammatory rhetoric regarding Irans nuclear weapons program. Obamas measured reliance on tough economic embargoes to bring Iran to heel, and his equally measured disengagement from the war in Afghanistan, are examples of a nuanced approach to international affairs. The glaring exception, still unfolding, was the administrations failure to protect the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, and to quickly come clean about it.
The fact that they mention the recent Libyan attack gives it all the more gravitas.
Nice to see intelligence and rationality is alive somewhere. Never thought it would be in Utah!
pinto
(106,886 posts)Rationality lives!