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The New York Times and Washington Post endorsements of Obama

Wed, 10/31/2012 - 19:27 — Dave Culver
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Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor John Stoltenberg

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29 October 2012 | With just over one week before the national election, three leading US newspapers, representing various shades of opinion within the ruling elite, have published editorials endorsing the reelection of Barack Obama: the Washington Post did so Friday and the New York Times and Chicago Tribune published theirs on Sunday.

All three newspapers hailed the killing of Osama bin Laden as the greatest foreign policy success of the Obama administration, demonstrating the debased character of official political discourse in America, where a willingness to commit murder, by death squad or remote-control missile, is deemed an indispensable qualification for the highest political office.

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