The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Saturday, October 16, 2004  

NEW YORK TIMES ENDORSES JOHN KERRY
Democrat Continues to Garner Top Editorial Nods

No surprise, really, but it's still gratifying to read the New York Times endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry, published in Sunday's paper.

The editors write:

We look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted. Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and again he chose the wrong course. We believe that with John Kerry as president, the nation will do better.

Voting for president is a leap of faith. A candidate can explain his positions in minute detail and wind up governing with a hostile Congress that refuses to let him deliver. A disaster can upend the best-laid plans. All citizens can do is mix guesswork and hope, examining what the candidates have done in the past, their apparent priorities and their general character. It's on those three grounds that we enthusiastically endorse John Kerry for president.

It's hard to argue with that.

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