Crawford Newspaper Endorses Kerry

ramoth4 writes "Local Crawford, TX (Bush's adopted hometown) paper The Lone Star Iconoclast has endorsed John Kerry for president. Kerry's home paper, the Boston Globe, hasn't come out with an endorsement yet. It's a very interesting editorial, especially in light of Bush's performance in the first debate."

Comments

Re:Doesn't matter.

[Anonymous Coward]

He's against letting gay people get married. Heavy appeal with the bubbas and religious nuts.

Re:Doesn't matter.

[Pluvius]

I'm not a Bush supporter myself, but I've read a number of ardent ones, and it seems that they like how Bush has been killing a lot of brown people, and believe that that somehow makes us safer.

Rob

Re:Tripe

[EnronHaliburton2004]

The American Press is mostly a mouthpiece for the two major parties. It is very rare to find a good, objective article in most of the newspapers or on the TV.

I'm not at all suprised that newspapers would lift the text directly from the DNC website, after all, they've been lifting text from the Bush Administration for the last 3 years, the Clinton Administration before that, etc.

Re:This is news?

[KilobyteKnight]

Did you RTFA? It has nothing to do with being in a small town. It's a solid editorial made ironic by the fact its from Bush's home town.

This word, "ironic", I do not think it means what you think it means.

From m-w.com:

Main Entry: irony
[edited for brevity, click the link for the whole definition]
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

So, unless you think the paper is really FOR Bush, you misused the word "ironic". For a good example of what irony is, read some of Mark Twain's political commentaries.


[In the Galaxy Magazine]: I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

Re:Bush != Conservative

[ericspinder]

wow, you have convinced me using your carefully crafted logic.

[Balanced Bugdet] That's an economic policy goal, and it's one that not all conservatives agree about.

Kensian economics is not a conservative value.

[Protecting American Jobs] No, that's the opposite of the conservative position. Conservatives are for open markets and free trade.

Again you are confusing 'conservative' with another issue. Free trade is generally considered to be a liberal attitude, just look at who fought NAFTA.

[Not being involved in needless foreign wars.] Careful. Your biases are showing.

(how's this for bias)It was liberal democrats who lead us into WW1, WW2, and Vietnam. If you were a student of history, you would know that traditionally conservatives fought intervention in the afairs of other states. Of course this usually changes after the first shots are fired, many people are willing (like yourself) to believe the Iraq had something to do with Sept 11.

For many this election is as much about the Supreme court as it is about Iraq. Many conservatives have been quitely complaining about the Bush administration, but they are will to keep it down in deference for the 'holy grail' of single issue politics: making abortions illegal again. They want Bush to replace one of the 5 judges who rule in favor of a woman's right to choose. Considering their ages, it's a wonder that he hasn't had even one supreme court pick, of course the year isn't out yet.

Re:It's sad...

[Enry]

I get the Lowell Sun on Sundays and Mondays. Their idea of "Fair and Balanced" is to have one local libertarian/conservitive commentator, one syndicated conservative opinion (Thomas/Novak), and one "point/counterpoint" which at least seems to have some balance to it.

Given their reporting over the past year (and nice smear campaign against the Middlesex County Sheriff), it's no suprise they're endorsing Bush.

Re:This is news?

[Rayonic]

> One would expect Crawford's local paper to be...

So it's "Crawford's local paper" now? Okay, then, I declare that the Washington Times is "Washington D.C.'s local paper", and the New York Daily News is "New York City's local paper."

Change the name

[OreoCookie]

It would be more honest if you would change the name of this section from "Politics" to "Bush Sucks. Vote for Kerry."

Re:Doesn't matter.

[demachina]

You need to forgive Twirp, he is a flaming pedant and bad at it. From Wikipedia, I know how much you like Wikipedia, Twirp:

"A blastocyst is an embryo at a stage where it consists of 30-150 cells. It is covered in a layer of trophoblasts, cells which will eventually form the placenta. The inner cells of the blastocyst are undifferentiated, and a source of embryonic stem cells."

I think stem cells are by definition undifferentiated until they differentiate themselves in to something else, thats why they are stem cells.

The only differentiation you find in a blastocyst is between the stem cells and the trophoblast.

Again from Wikipedia:

"Stem cells are cells which are not terminally differentiated and are therefore able to produce cells of other types. Medical researchers hope they can be used to repair specific tissues or to grow organs from scratch. There are three types of stem cells: totipotent, pluripotent, and multipotent. A single totipotent stem cell can grow into an entire organism. Pluripotent stem cells cannot grow into a whole organism, but they can become any other type of cell in the body. Multipotent (also called unipotent) stem cells can only become particular types of cells: e.g. blood cells, or bone cells."

You really are slipping lately, Twirp. You feeling OK?