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highplainsdem

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Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:40 PM Oct 2012

Washington Post endorsement: Four more years for President Obama

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/washington-post-endorsement-four-more-years-for-president-obama/2012/10/25/6ca309a2-1965-11e2-bd10-5ff056538b7c_story.html

MUCH OF THE 2012 presidential campaign has dwelt on the past, but the key questions are who could better lead the country during the next four years — and, most urgently, who is likelier to put the government on a sounder financial footing.

That second question will come rushing at the winner as soon as the votes are tallied. Absent any action, a series of tax hikes and spending cuts will take effect Jan. 1 that might well knock the country back into recession. This will be a moment of peril but also of opportunity. How the president-elect navigates it will go a long way toward determining the success of his presidency and the health of the nation.

President Barack Obama is better positioned to be that navigator than is his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

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Some criticism of President Obama here, but also lots of praise for him, and lots of criticism of Romney.
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Washington Post endorsement: Four more years for President Obama (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2012 OP
Good news. TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #1
Here is the Money Quote Blaukraut Oct 2012 #2

Blaukraut

(5,689 posts)
2. Here is the Money Quote
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:43 PM
Oct 2012
Every politician changes his mind sometimes; you’d worry if not. But rarely has a politician gotten so far with only one evident immutable belief: his conviction in his own fitness for higher office.
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