Obama, Romney endorsed by Reno newspaper

[jackson_dem]

This is a big win for these two "candidates of change." Reno is the second largest city in Nevada.

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The Reno Gazette-Journal, Nevada’s second-largest newspaper, announced on its Web site Thursday night that it was endorsing Republican Romney and Democrat Obama in a pair of editorials that focused on electability in November.

The paper's editorial board complimented Romney for getting voters to cross party lines to elect a Republican governor in heavily Democratic Massachusetts.

“Romney’s most remarkable feat,” the board writes, “was his stewardship of the Salt Lake City Olympics. He showed that he could bring disparate groups together, clean up a mess left by his predecessor, and to put on possibly the most successful games ever.”

Obama, the editorial board believes, “embodies the political and ideological perspectives that the party projects. He represents the platform of political unity and workable populist economics that he and party members believe will reinvigorate the economy and solve many of the other problems the nation is facing.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/17/romney-and-obama-2-for-2-with-major-nevada-papers/

[TwilightZone]

1. Romney's "stewardship of the SLC Olympics" qualifies him to be president?

President of the USOC, perhaps.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Lame. Fuck Romney.

[Wilms]

2. I didn't realize they were running mates.

:shrug:

[jackson_dem]

4. I caught that now. Romney has adopted Obama's message

"Change", "outsider", "lobbyists", and finally a rethug is talking about "building bridges" to "get things done".

[annie1]

5. wow. Obama is racking up the newspaper and politician endorsements. impressive.

i guess there is not much love for hil. this is interesting how much support he's getting and yet hil is still doing so well. i'm really at a loss to understand why no love for the hilster.

[jackson_dem]

6. It makes you wonder who the "establishment" is supporting now

Obama has had a rapid-fire succession of endorsements since Iowa and won almost all the newspaper endorsements since then.

[Diane R]

7. Actually, it makes me wonder why the seasoned lawmakers have turned against Hillary.

[Dogmudgeon]

8. The Establishment hates Hillary

It's perplexing, really. She's the object of scorn for rightists and hipster-leftists alike. That's why there is so little discussion of policy or planning. It's all regurgitated hatred for the goat-queen.

There is a constant repetition of the same accusations, and none of them are even close to being accurate -- "corporate", "man-hater", "ruthless", and "calculating", among the most frequent. Yet, if they are looking for real issues to take her to task over, there are many, all of which they ignore.

The same thing happened to Bill, and the people's response was to give him extremely high positive polling numbers. The fools!

But I forget -- we're all just sheeple, too stupid to recognize the evil so visible to our betters. And it might just get the Whip Mistress of the Democrat Party (sic) elected as President.

--p!

[Tulkas]

9. I don't think they hate her

I think that alot of Dems are afraid that the turnout in the general election will be altered by a Clinton nomination.

Her negatives are so high that many people in the middle won't turn out to vote for her, even if they don't like the Republican candidate either (I am one of them). This costs all the dems votes.

The actual hatred toward her comes from the right. This may cause more people from the right to show up and vote against all the democrats on the ballot.