Comments on The Seattle Times Endorses...

I don't trust a thing that rag prints.

You should check out their stunning expose of Husky football, then, Jubilation. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004147443_rboverview27m0.html -- it's outstanding.

Read how the UW and Norm Maleng covered up a brutal rape, and how the UW, years later, was still going out of its way to harrass and humiliate the victim. Read how "when one player was sentenced to 30 days in jail, the judge wrote in her order: 'to be served after football season.'"

But that's off-topic. On topic is this endorsement. I think people are wondering what's so great about "experience" when it's experience in the worst government this country's ever had.

P.S.: apparently the Times didn't see Josh's Slog post about banning the word 'narrative'.

Proof perhaps of the power of Barak Obama to get people previously considered intransigently pigeon holed in their own ideological dogma to join together in unity with their political opposites inorder to create a new workable coalition.

Wait, when did Obama come out for repealing the "death tax"?

I stopped giving a shit about their endorsements after they endorsed Bush in 2000.

Wow, I wonder *who* the Stranger will back....yeah...I am on the edge of my seat. I mean, god its not like almost all the writers have been giving Obama a slog blow job.

@7 but what if ECB win the cage match? With her cyclist legs she could deliver a powerful roundhouse kick for HRC.

It does seem most likely that The Stranger will come out for Obama, unless they go Don Quixote and endorse Edwards.

But please, can we have the endorsement announcement made live somewhere? I want to see ECB turn weird colors and howl.

Yes, Caucuses, people, the CAUCUSES are coming up on Feb 9, which means we have to turn out (regardless of whom we support). The primary means nothing for delegate selection. Spread the word.

"The Seattle Times Endorses Barack Obama."

What? You thought they'd be endorsing one of the Republican candidates?

I totally don't trust the Times.

But I'm sure the Stranger will endorse a President for the 21st Century, so that means another Obama nod from you guys.

The Seattle Times will endorse a Republican candidate for President on February 3.

Edwards is toast. It's too bad since he had a good message, but if he can't win in his own back yard and the state of his birth he should bow out while he still has some dignity.

Andy @10: I hope our caucuses aren't a moot point since they come after Super-Duper Tuesday (or whatever the pundits are calling it). If the Clinton/Obama match is still unsettled after 900 other states have their primaries, this could be interesting. Otherwise, it won't matter who Washington Democrats like.

I wish newspapers wouldn't endorse anyone. It's an overestimation of their "power" and influence on a community for them to even think readers care. Newspapers shouldn't have editorial boards or editorial pages; they only piss people off and alienate them from the public. It assumes people are too stupid to make their own political choices.

omg i can't wait to find out who the stranger will endorse. the anticipation is killig me. i wonder who it'll be.

When you're finalizing your Stranger Endorsement, remember to read Hillary Clinton's book "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets" that she wrote in 1993 when she was getting all that experience in the Whitehouse so she could hit the ground running.

I thought the Stranger hated the Times, and always did the opposite from them. I look forward to your Clinton endorsement.

@7: And this is a problem? Why?