New Orleans' Times-Picayune: "No One to Champion" (endorsed * in 2000!)

[tedoll78]

I don't like it, but it's better than a Chimp endorsement.

The United States is facing profound challenges as it chooses a president for the next four years. Insurgents continue to plague the rebuilding of Iraq, this nation's deficit is exploding, and terrorism has become a worldwide reality.

These and other pressing issues will require singular leadership from the Oval Office. Unfortunately, we cannot recommend either George W. Bush or John Kerry with confidence.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1098600905155542.xml

They're "unwilling to urge Mr Bush's re-election" for a litany of reasons, but they're skeptical of Kerry's foreign policy plans.

Hogwash. I think they did this to avoid a backlash from the conservatives living in Jefferson Parish and Mandeville.. :eyes:

[requiem99]

1. For once, the devil they know is far worse than the devil they don't.

[sandnsea]

2. Be A Champion for Kerry

It's time for us to tell our friends and families why we are FOR John Kerry. Trying to get the word out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1155995

[Tony_Illinois]

3. Non-Endorsement from a Non-Newspaper

I have lived in New Orleans and read the Times Picayune. It is a cowardly rag and appropriate for that miserable city.

[tedoll78]

4. Hey hey now..

I love New Orleans.

But you are right.. it deserves better.
It deserves to be cleaned-up.
The politicians are crooked.
The Saints never win anything.
The streets need to be fixed.
The chemical plants to the west need to be audited for pollutant output.

But I still love it..

[Tony_Illinois]

6. Sorry tedoll78...

I did not intend to offend you. I lived there for a good while--went to UNO--but did not have the love for it that you do...

[tedoll78]

7. I understand.

It really is an acquired taste. If I had a nickle for every time I've heard someone say, "I love to visit.. but I couldn't live there.." - I'd be RICH! :hi:

[cyr330]

5. They're worthless anyway

That is one shitty newsrag if I've ever seen one. New Orleans is just about the poorest city in the United States--We called it "Bombay" or "Calcutta" when I lived there. . . . The poor there are treated so badly, and the hourly wage employees--it's a nightmare!

Yet, the goddamned paper endorse that fuck, * ,in 2000.

I DO agree with you that it's better that they endorse nobody than endorse the squatter in the WH, but it just makes me angry that they are soooo stupid.