Bush hometown paper endorses Kerry


This publisher has guts. Real, old-style guts. The kind of guts we came to expect from Texans, and the kind they've prided themselves in, the kind their leaders have had so little of in recent years.

The whole editorial is such a plain, simple and concise indictment of Bush, his policies and performance, you owe it to yourself to read it whether you support Bush or not. It's definitely a hot knife through the butter of all the political spin we've been subjected to this election cycle.

Here's the lede and a few excerpts:



From The Lone Star Iconoclast:

Few Americans would have voted for George W. Bush four years ago if he had promised that, as President, he would:

• Empty the Social Security trust fund by $507 billion to help offset fiscal irresponsibility and at the same time slash Social Security benefits.

• Cut Medicare by 17 percent and reduce veterans’ benefits and military pay.

• Eliminate overtime pay for millions of Americans and raise oil prices by 50 percent.

• Give tax cuts to businesses that sent American jobs overseas, and, in fact, by policy encourage their departure.

• Give away billions of tax dollars in government contracts without competitive bids.

• Involve this country in a deadly and highly questionable war, and

• Take a budget surplus and turn it into the worst deficit in the history of the United States, creating a debt in just four years that will take generations to repay.

These were elements of a hidden agenda that surfaced only after he took office.

more from The Lone Star Iconoclast:

The publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago, based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda.

Today, we are endorsing his opponent, John Kerry, based not only on the things that Bush has delivered, but also on the vision of a return to normality that Kerry says our country needs.

Four items trouble us the most about the Bush administration: his initiatives to disable the Social Security system, the deteriorating state of the American economy, a dangerous shift away from the basic freedoms established by our founding fathers, and his continuous mistakes regarding terrorism and Iraq.

Read on to read the explanation of their rationale here.

Posted: Wed - September 29, 2004 at 07:39 AM          

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