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Obama bags his own Florida paper endorsement

Oct. 19, 2012 4:56pm Eddie Scarry

It’s not set to be published in the print edition until Sunday but the Tampa Bay Times has officially endorsed President Obama for a second term. From the online version of the staff editorial:

[T]he president at least proposes some specifics to bring the nation’s finances into better order. He would end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over 10 years. He relies on artful accounting, and he will have to make a more serious attempt. But the president’s bottom line is right: Reducing the deficit will require a combination of spending cuts and additional revenue. …

We wish the economic recovery was more vigorous, and we would like the president to present a sharper vision for a second term. But Obama has capably steered the nation through an incredibly difficult period at home and abroad, often with little help from Congress. The next four years will not be easy for whoever occupies the Oval Office, but Obama has been tested by harsh circumstance and proven himself worthy of a second term.

Today Mitt Romney was endorsed by the Orlando Sentinel, a Florida newspaper that backed Obama in 2008.

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TCK
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:50pm
My wife works for the times in the advertising dept and they are all Romney supporters there. Its the “journalists” that are running the times. Plus, I’m guessing that with the huge black population in St. Petersburg, endorsing Romney would be like committing suicide to subscriptions. I have a feeling that they choked this one down and endorsed Obama simply because of their liberal writers. Liberals have taken over journalists. They are one and the same now. Too bad though, because they probably would have better business and sell more subscriptions if they were more central and not so heavy on the liberal side.

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jaylew
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:59pm
There is no more fragile business model right now than the profitable operation of a printed newspaper. So let the endorsements emanate from all of them around the country….every single newspaper operation in this country lives on the constant edge of bankruptcy…..and anyone who allows a nearly bankrupt business model influence their own personal political decisions is by definition just as bankrupt in the intellect column. Like The Washington Post, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Detroit Free Press among others……would not endorse a rotten tree stump for President if the nominee that election cycle happened to come from a Democratically owned cypress swamp. A voter would be better served performing the Richard Dreyfus method of picking horse races as seen in the movie “Let It Ride”…….ask which horse everyone else is betting on….and then scratch that horses name from the program as if it had the bubonic plague.

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anothercomment
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 2:23pm
So, FULL DISLCLOSURE. How much did the Tampa Bay Time s newspapers receive from the DNC, or other ‘under the table’ sources for this endorsement? No, I will not believe this an endorsement because the paper actually was able to pull a plan out of Obama’s LEAN FORWARD, (non-specific) platform.

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- rickc34
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:00pm
  yep Obama bought a truckload of subscriptions with tax payer funds for this one.
  
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lynda1276
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:20pm
i am canceling my subscription to that rag of a newspaper

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Hiswill
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 1:27pm
What planet do they live on? Our economy is in the toilet, we owe 16 trillion dollars, our credit rating dropped (first time since depression), welfare and food stamps have doubled, we have lost 200,000 small businesses since 2007 and there are over 24 million people unemployed. Obama has done a wonderful job pulling us down to become a third world country.

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Mapache
Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:03am
“Worthy of a second term?” Really? I did not know the election was about worthiness, here all along I thought it was about competence. While Obama means well he is incapable of both moving this country forward and keeping the government out of my life. Obama has to be led peacefully or kicking and screaming into retirement.

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- jaylew
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 5:09pm
  Nice pointing out of the silliness of the worthiness criteria as being something to be a factor in puling the presidential voting lever……by my measure then we should select a gay female candidate with Down’s syndrome….and I can’t find any such candidates left since the last one was selected to the Supreme Court two appointments ago. Worthiness is a progressive adjective which describes a condition exactly opposite of what the Merriam Webster dictionary defines it as. In the Progressive universe……words mean very little at all…..it’s all much more about feeling and the inner sanctum…facts mean nothing….and nothing means everything. These days and in these times the political process is nothing more than a bad LSD trip…..the more flashbacks one has…the brighter the colors and the candidates becomes…..it is not until they are sworn into office…that the horns and the tails and the claws can be seen. Today’s middle aged progressives are the LSD babies of the 60′s…….their entire lives have consisted of one perpetual flashback.
  
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steelpanther
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 10:34pm
Nice to see they don’t even bother with that dirty concept of unbiased reporting.

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