Demoralized as Hell: Editorial Reversal Edition

There aren’t many peo­ple who believe Mitt Rom­ney has a prayer of win­ning in Mass­a­chu­setts, how­ever that might depend on how many peo­ple read this absolutely dev­as­tat­ing endorse­ment of Mitt by the Sen­tinel & Enterprise

Rom­ney has faced eco­nomic chal­lenges at key points in his pro­fes­sional and polit­i­cal careers and has always seemed to grow in the job to deliver greater expec­ta­tions than when he went in. Pres­i­dent Obama, on the other hand, lacked any prior expe­ri­ence before enter­ing the White House in 2008 and appears over­whelmed by the one seri­ous eco­nomic chal­lenge he has confronted.

The com­ple­ments to Rom­ney are strong but the brick­bats swung at the Pres­i­dent are not some­thing you would expect to read from a Mass­a­chu­setts paper that endorsed him the last time around.

Pres­i­dent Obama con­tin­ues to say Amer­ica is in an eco­nomic recov­ery. The fam­i­lies bro­ken by his recov­ery, whose cor­ner­stone was Obama’s $787 bil­lion eco­nomic stim­u­lus pack­age, know oth­er­wise: Public-​sector employ­ees and union work­ers got “shovel-​ready” projects and dol­lars; the private-​sector got the shaft and more regulations.

In 2008, an unproven Obama promised things would turn out dif­fer­ently with him in charge. “Change we can believe in” is how he put it. Four years later we real­ize it was all made up.

All made up? Can we make it sound even worse? YES IT CAN!

Obama isn’t even try­ing to defend the inde­fen­si­ble — his fail­ing four-​year record. Instead, in par­ti­san style he is blam­ing oth­ers, includ­ing Demo­c­rat and Repub­li­can pre­de­ces­sors, for dri­ving Amer­ica to the edge of fis­cal insolvency.

When Obama looks into a mir­ror, he must see Jimmy Carter star­ing back at him.

I sus­pect Jon Gol­nik run­ning in Fitch­burg for Ma-​3 must love that part since his oppo­nent Niki Tsongas IS try­ing to defend the record the Pres­i­dent is not.

Pres­i­dent Obama makes a weak case for re-​election. He says his poli­cies need four more years to kick in. This from a commander-​in-​chief who hasn’t passed a fed­eral bud­get in three years, hasn’t sub­mit­ted a com­pre­hen­sive energy bill in four years, and hasn’t given vot­ers an inkling of where Amer­ica might be headed through 2016. Where’s your plan, Mr. President?

Remem­ber this is a MASS­A­CHU­SETTS News­pa­per in a City with a Demo­c­rat Mayor, a major­ity Demo­c­rat City coun­cil, a Demo­c­rat State Rep and a Demo­c­rat State Sen­a­tor rep­re­sented by a Demo­c­rat Congressman.

In The Sen­tinel & Enterprise’s view, that’s where Amer­ica has fallen off track these past four years. Amer­ica trusted a “hope and change” can­di­date, it didn’t work, and we’re suf­fer­ing the con­se­quences. Now we’ve got a tested leader with a proven track record stand­ing before us — Mitt Rom­ney — and it’s his time to inspire Amer­i­cans to greatness.

When News­pa­pers who endorsed Obama in 2008 in Massa D+26 chusetts are writ­ing edi­to­ri­als like this with two weeks to go before elec­tion that means one thing:

“Ride right through them, they’re demor­al­ized as hell”!

I would urge every voter in Amer­i­can and Mass­a­chu­setts to go over and read the whole glo­ri­ous thing.

Update: The Ride Right through them belonged after that “when News­pa­pers” para­graph, not before. Fixed