(Tampa Bay) Times recommends: Hillary Clinton for president

[Scurrilous]

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"These are anxious times. Americans are concerned about economic stagnation, terrorism and spasms of gun violence. A chaotic presidential campaign has not improved the national mood. But this remains a resilient nation determined to pursue a brighter future, and there is a clear way forward to renew our common bonds and build upon the gains of these last eight years.

Hillary Clinton is the only candidate for president with the values, experience and knowledge to meet the challenges at home and abroad. Donald Trump is stunningly unprepared and temperamentally unfit for the presidency, and he has played upon our deepest fears and worst impulses with reckless rhetoric, wild promises and flagrant disregard for the truth. His bombast makes for entertaining television, but it is not suited for the Oval Office.

Perspective gets lost in the Twitter era. America is on firmer ground than when President Barack Obama took office. The country teetered on the brink of economic collapse, and we came through the Great Recession. We were mired in two wars, and thousands of our troops have returned home. Osama bin Laden is dead, the Islamic State is under strain and the doors to Cuba are reopening. In Florida, unemployment is down, housing prices are up and urban areas from Tampa Bay to Orlando to Miami are experiencing a renaissance.

In every respect, Clinton is well prepared to capitalize on those successes and ensure more Americans benefit. Her experience as a young lawyer, first lady, U.S. senator from New York and secretary of state during Obama's first term is unmatched. She has spent a lifetime advocating for children, health care and economic opportunity regardless of race or class. Her attention to policy details and her negotiating skills are well established, and her toughness has been tested through decades of public life."

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[Cha]

1. Wow, great endorsement of Hillary. Like they've

been paying attention!

I don't agree with this though..

Clinton is a flawed candidate, and there are legitimate concerns about her honesty and candor. While she was secretary of state, her use of a private email server was an egregious error that smacks of self-entitlement. The Clinton Foundation, whose initiatives have saved lives around the world, should have been held at greater arm's length. As president, she would have to be more candid with Americans and fight her tendency to withhold information she fears would be damaging. Eventually, it always comes out.

Who isn't "flawed"?.. no one is perfect. And, I don't think she used her private email server because she felt "self-entitled".

This is what it comes down to..

In every respect, Clinton is well prepared to capitalize on those successes and ensure more Americans benefit. Her experience as a young lawyer, first lady, U.S. senator from New York and secretary of state during Obama's first term is unmatched. She has spent a lifetime advocating for children, health care and economic opportunity regardless of race or class. Her attention to policy details and her negotiating skills are well established, and her toughness has been tested through decades of public life."

Mahalo, Scurrilous!

[Scurrilous]

2. Hi Cha!

They really nail Trump:

"But putting Trump in the White House is simply unthinkable. Compared to him, Clinton's issues of integrity are minor. His are monumental.

Trump's grim view of a declining America that has lost standing in the world is at odds with reality. The billionaire's tax cuts would primarily benefit the wealthy. He wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act but offers no serious alternative. His pledges to round up and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants and to force Mexico to pay for a border wall are nationalistic nonsense. His Rust Belt promises to revive steel mills and reinvigorate the coal industry are fantasies, and he is in denial about climate change.

But Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party makes this election unlike any other in our lifetimes. It is not about the size of tax cuts, or the scope of government regulation, or the details of health care reform. At its core, this election is about uniting behind a tested, thoroughly vetted candidate and preventing a dangerous demagogue from taking office."

[Cha]

4. "But putting Trump in the White House is simply unthinkable."

I'm going with that

And, nailed it here..

"At its core, this election is about uniting behind a tested, thoroughly vetted candidate and preventing a dangerous demagogue from taking office."

Be safe all Floridians who are in Hurricane Matthew's path..

I see their governor isn't going to extend early voting..

Alex Seitz-Wald
✔ ‎@aseitzwald
Rick Scott will not extend reg deadline due to storm, he says at presser, via @MAlexJohnson: "Everybody has had plenty of time to register."
1:48 PM - 6 Oct 2016
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meta ‎@metaquest
This is a heartless travesty. https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/784178507052093440 …
2:30 PM - 6 Oct 2016
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[vadermike]

3. Cool

Do people in Florida still read this is as a major newspaper I know it's the Internet age but people still read these .....great news

[yardwork]

5. Lots of retired people in the Tampa area probably still subscribe to papers.

I would guess that the majority of subscribers to papers are older people. That's a demographic more likely to vote Republican. So I think these endorsements will help Clinton.

[DonCoquixote]

6. the times is a private run newspaper

Which has kept it out of the Maw of Media General. However, it is the number one target for both Right wing pundits and internet trolls, who do their best to get people to not read it. They cannot tell them to buy the Tribune, the right wing rival, as it FOLDED

[Nay]

7. Yeah, it used to be that there were 2 newspapers -- the St Pete Times and the

Tampa Tribune. When I was growing up in FL, the Times was an award-winning newspaper that did all sorts of investigative reporting and got Pulitzers and everything. I read it all the time. When I was in FL this past winter, I read the Times and could see that it was still a liberal paper, but it's obvious that just us olds are reading newspapers.

[DonCoquixote]

8. not quite

namely through it's new arm, the tbt, it was able to reach the sort of people that used to read creative loafing, aka the "alternative newspaper" that became a lot less alternative when they had to get into compliance with an Atlanta based parent.

[DonCoquixote]

9. The Tampa Tribune

was called a "fishwrap", and justifiably so. Hard Hard right and dumb.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Still batting 1.000 IIRC...

haven't seen any other daily paper go Trump.