{"id":1240,"date":"2004-10-24T06:47:55","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T10:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/editorial_funny\/"},"modified":"2004-10-24T06:47:55","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T10:47:55","slug":"editorial_funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/editorial_funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Knoxville News-Sentinel<\/i> comes out with a qualified endorsement of Bush<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With the endorsement comes a qualification: Bush should make every attempt to return the Republican Party to the core values that best reflect the majority feeling in this area and that have served the nation well. . . Those values include balanced budgets, fiscal responsibility and a foreign policy that, while not isolationist, depends on a strong military and is not adventurous or interventionist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, Bush needs another four-year term to undo what he did in his first one.
\nAs if that wasn’t comical enough, the piece also emphasizes the need for the next president to “compromise” in order to bring a polarized nation together. Of course we’ve all seen what a great unifier Bush has turned out to be.
\nIn short, vote for Bush: he can be a great president, provided his second term is the exact opposite of his first.
\nUPDATE: The Tennessean, which backed Gore in 2000, today has an editorial for Senator Kerry<\/a>. I like how it mentions an issue which has largely been ignored this election cycle:<\/p>\n

Of all the vast differences between the two candidates, the biggest chasm is on the environment. Kerry has a record of strong environmental protection. The Bush White House has allowed industry officials to rewrite regulations. It has rejected solid science. It has begun turning back environmental laws that have worked well for a generation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Contrast that with the funny the News Sentinel<\/i> tries to pull in casting Bush as an environmental advocate:<\/p>\n

And, while there is much concern about the president’s environmental policies, it is Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency that is holding Knox and other counties’ feet to the fire on nonattainment. That EPA action requires local participation in helping stem the tide of air pollution in one of the haziest regions in the nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whatever EPA “bureaucrats” (to use a Bush term) have been doing to address air pollution is in spite of this White House, not because of it. To imply that Bush wants to crack down on polluters is laughable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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