Arizona newspaper endorses John Kerry

[joanne]

Four years ago, George W. Bush became president of a thriving America. Not only had his predecessor eliminated the national deficit, he had left the new president a $236 billion budget surplus. Unemployment was at a record low of 4 percent. The nation was not at war. The current president's policies have had a negative impact on each of these areas. We believe John Kerry can reverse that trend, and we endorse him for president.

In less than four years, President Bush, the avowed conservative, turned a record surplus into a record deficit, now estimated at $422 billion. During the same period, the unemployment rate rose to 6 percent and then improved a bit, but this summer, 5.4 percent of the work force was still unemployed.

The peace and prosperity of the Clinton administration evolved, under President Bush, to a falsely justified war and an economy that declined sharply and is barely staggering back to solvency - though even that faltering solvency is seriously jeopardized by impractical tax cuts for which our children will pay dearly.

http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/dailystar/41363.php

[spooky3]

1. Great editorial. Do you know anything about this paper?

[joanne]

2. No I dont

Found out about this endorsement from Buzzflash.

But I do know Arizona is a state that was considered leaning towards *. So it is a more significant endorsement than if it had been, for example, a newspaper from Michigan.

[annabanana]

3. It's a pretty big paper........

They may be Tucson based.

[Tansy_Gold]

4. It's the major daily in Tucson

The Phoenix rag is the Arizona Republic. You can guess which way THEY lean. . . . .


Tansy Gold, in the Phoenix market