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riversedge

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Fri Sep 23, 2016, 10:02 AM Sep 2016

LATimes Editorial: Clinton would be a smart, pragmatic president. Trump would be a catastrophe.

Now this is a grand way to start the weekend before the big debate!


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Editorial board: Clinton would be a smart, pragmatic president. Trump would be a catastrophe. http://lat.ms/2cIjDaZ



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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in Orlando, Fla., on Sept. 21. (M
att Rourke / Associated Press)


The Times Editorial Board

American voters have a clear choice on Nov. 8. We can elect an experienced, thoughtful and deeply knowledgeable public servant or a thin-skinned demagogue who is unqualified and unsuited to be president.

Donald J. Trump, a billionaire businessman and television personality, is the latter. He has never held elected office and has shown himself temperamentally unfit to do so. He has run a divisive, belligerent, dishonest campaign, repeatedly aligning himself with racists, strongmen and thugs while maligning or dismissing large segments of the American public. Electing Trump could be catastrophic for the nation...............................

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LATimes Editorial: Clinton would be a smart, pragmatic president. Trump would be a catastrophe. (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2016 OP
Not really surprising from that paper. Funtatlaguy Sep 2016 #1

Funtatlaguy

(10,875 posts)
1. Not really surprising from that paper.
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 10:15 AM
Sep 2016

Will be interesting to see if there are a lot of Repub leaning editorial boards that either endorse Hillary or make no endorsement.
Not that I think newspaper endorsements influence many voters especially at the Prez level.

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