Major Ohio paper endorses Clinton after years of backing GOP

Surfer Joe · Sep 24, 2016

The fact that a newspaper that has endorsed republican candidates for a century is endorsing Clinton over Trump is very interesting.
It's so patently obvious how defective Trump really is, and how utterly unfit he is to be potus, that you have to ask what sort of a person would fall for such a demagogue? It's deplorable.
I think that coming just before the first debate, it will bring added interest to the debate in that important state.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, one of Ohio's largest newspapers, is backing Hillary Clinton after supporting Republican presidential candidates for nearly a century.

"The Enquirer has supported Republicans for president for almost a century -- a tradition this editorial board doesn't take lightly. But this is not a traditional race, and these are not traditional times," the editorial board of the Enquirer published Friday.

"Our country needs calm, thoughtful leadership to deal with the challenges we face at home and abroad. We need a leader who will bring out the best in all Americans, not the worst."
"That's why there is only one choice when we elect a president in November: Hillary Clinton," the editorial reads.

The paper said Clinton was a "competent" secretary of state who made "mistakes" in Benghazi that were "tragic" but called Republicans' assessment of her actions a "diabolical conspiracy."
"Clinton, meanwhile, was a competent secretary of state, with far stronger diplomatic skills than she gets credit for. Yes, mistakes were made in Benghazi, and it was tragic that four Americans lost their lives in the 2012 terror attacks on the US consulate there," it wrote. "But the incident was never the diabolical conspiracy that Republicans wanted us to believe, and Clinton was absolved of blame after lengthy investigations."

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is more interested in his self than the country, the paper concludes.
"Trump brands himself as an outsider untainted by special interests, but we see a man utterly corrupted by self-interest.

His narcissistic bid for the presidency is more about making himself great than America," the board said.
"Trump tears our country and many of its people down with his words so that he can build himself up.
What else are we left to believe about a man who tells the American public that he alone can fix what ails us?"
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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/23/politics/cincinnati-enquirer-hillary-clinton-endorsement/

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