The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review endorses Hillary!

[Maribelle]

For Pennsylvania Democrats, the smart choice Tuesday is Mrs. Clinton.

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More disturbing is what seems to be Obama's private view of America.

Start with the "God damn America" diatribes of his one-time pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. (Obama claims he didn't know of these, even though he sat in Wright's church for 20 years.) Add his wife Michelle's remark about being proud of America for the first time in her life only because of her husband's campaign.

Now we hear Obama himself disdaining small-town, Middle-America attitudes and values -- a "clinging" to God, guns and bigotry -- as a legacy of bitterness.

Everyone utters stupidities now and then. Yet taken together and uttered repeatedly, they sound like a pattern of thought in the Obama household. It's a pattern the nation can't afford in the White House.





http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/archive/s_563322.html

[libbygurl]

1. Thanks for this.

Clinton went into 'enemy territory' - editorial office of Trib-Rev who have been criticising her for years and years - and discussed policy (as usual) while winning over the members! Hope you don't mind I post this, too, 'elsewhere'? :)

[Maribelle]

2. Please do post it elsewhere.

Thanks!

[tigereye]

4. I can't believe Scaife was willing to talk to her -

he is soooo creepy.



It was hilarious and weird to see that he was impressed by her.


It's kind of a sport here in Pgh for Dems to make fun of the Trib. Color me amazed by this. :wow:

[susankh4]

3. Thank you!

Pittsburgh and Philly need to take a stand on our candidates! The rest of the state, as we have seen in the past, tends to go red in November. Mid-Pennsylvania will go for Hillary in the primary, but not necessarily in the fall.

This is an important indictment of the Obama candidacy at a crucial time. Pittsburgh is BIG Dem. country.

[elleng]

5. I think its a GREAT endorsement, and here are pieces:

he is extremely knowledgeable on crucial foreign issues. Meeting with Trib editors last month, she ticked off an impressive list of international challenges and the solutions. (In Wednesday's Philadelphia debate, Obama praised George H.W. Bush's foreign policy -- apparently not realizing that one of its architects was then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, a man he regularly excoriates.)

As we noted at the time of that meeting, Clinton's decision to sit down with the Trib was courageous, given our longstanding criticism of her. That is no small matter: Political courage is essential in a president. Clinton has demonstrated it; Obama has not. . .

Those who have endorsed Obama have rhetorically swooned, too, designating him the future of American politics, while denigrating Clinton as a relic of politics past.

How ironic, since Obama owes no small part of his success to the grooming and support of Chicago's old-line Daley political machine.

In policy terms, relatively little may separate these two. Obama ranks as one of the most liberal U.S. senators, but Clinton is no conservative. Determining how they differ is difficult, though, because Obama is long on soaring rhetoric yet painfully short on record. . .

Everyone utters stupidities now and then. Yet taken together and uttered repeatedly, they sound like a pattern of thought in the Obama household. It's a pattern the nation can't afford in the White House.

In sharp contrast, Clinton is far more experienced in government -- as an engaged first lady to a governor and a president, as a second-term senator in her own right.

She has a real voting record on key issues. Agree with her or not, you at least know where she stands instead of being forced to wonder. . .

She has a real record. He doesn't.

She has experience of value to a president. He doesn't.

Clearly, she's the wiser choice to represent Democrats the fall."