SMART Letters to the Plain Dealer, Vol 1: Yay for Enlightened People who Didn't Forget 2000-2009!

[HughBeaumont]

Surprised the Plain Freeper actually printed an-Tea LTTEs. Seems not everyone's happy with the paper's expected endorsement of Bewsh's trade advisor for Voinovich's vacant senate seat and a slash-n-waste Wall Streetwalker as Governor:

http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2010/10/errant_endorsements_plain_deal.html

Errant endorsements: Plain Dealer misses on Kasich and Portman

The editorial board of The Plain Dealer should be ashamed of itself for endorsing Rob Portman for the U.S. Senate and John Kasich for governor. The Bush administration partnered with congressional Republicans to send a thriving national economy into an economic abyss. Ohio Republicans under Bob Taft followed suit, passing the same set of flawed policies that centered on tax cuts and undermining the public sector. In the last two years, Republicans blocked every effort to improve the economy, forcing the country to accept weaker and incomplete policies.

How does The Plain Dealer reward such a legacy of failure and obstructionism? With an endorsement.

The lesson from the editorial board's action is extraordinary: If you screw up and then prevent others from cleaning up your mess, you deserve a chance to govern.

Mark Cassell, Shaker Heights

http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2010/10/errant_endorsements_making_the.html

Errant endorsements: Making the case for Strickland

Despite The Plain Dealer's intended endorsement of John Kasich for governor, to me the editorial was actually an endorsement of Ted Strickland.

As an investor, I take risks -- but I don't roll the dice on a "scary" candidate for whom it's "hard to tell what's core belief, what's hot air and whether he even knows the difference," such as phasing out Ohio's income tax or reducing the state's commitment to public schools.

In a very difficult national economy, Strickland has introduced innovative and realistic programs to advance Ohio's business environment and jobs. Give me a leader with a steady hand at the tiller, not an amateur who asks, "Hey, which way do I turn it to go port or starboard?"

Allan Morris, Beachwood

And these aren't the only ones.

See . . . there IS intelligent life in NE Ohio after all.

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