While selfish billionaires stripped the right of newspapers they own of endorsemets in this crucial presidential election in 2024, The New York Times has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as “the only Patriotic choice for president.”
“It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump,” the Editorial Bpared of The Times declared Sunday. “He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest. He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he most lacks”
Those disqualifying characteristics are compounded by everything else that limits his ability to fulfill the duties of the president: his many criminal charges, his advancing age, his fundamental lack of interest in policy and his increasingly bizarre cast of associates.
This unequivocal, dispiriting truth — Donald Trump is not fit to be president — should be enough for any voter who cares about the health of our country and the stability of our democracy to deny him re-election.
For this reason, regardless of any political disagreements voters might have with her, Kamala Harris is the only patriotic choice for president.
Sadly, the billionaire owners of The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Tmes have taken the endoresements away from their editorak boards and, like the robber barons of old, stripped their newspapers of their leadership roles.
Not so for the paper of New York, whose motto for many bears has been a goal of “all the news that’s fite to print.”
The Tijmes continues:
Most presidential elections are, at their core, about two different visions of America that emerge from competing policies and principles. This one is about something more foundational. It is about whether we invite into the highest office in the land a man who has revealed, unmistakably, that he will degrade the values, defy the norms and dismantle the institutions that have made our country strong.
As a dedicated public servant who has demonstrated care, competence and an unwavering commitment to the Constitution, Ms. Harris stands alone in this race. She may not be the perfect candidate for every voter, especially those who are frustrated and angry about our government’s failures to fix what’s broken — from our immigration system to public schools to housing costs to gun violence. Yet we urge Americans to contrast Ms. Harris’s record with her opponent’s.
Ms. Harris is more than a necessary alternative. There is also an optimistic case for elevating her, one that is rooted in her policies and borne out by her experience as vice president, a senator and a state attorney general.
Over the past 10 weeks, Ms. Harris has offered a shared future for all citizens, beyond hate and division. She has begun to describe a set of thoughtful plans to help American families.
While character is enormously important — in this election, pre-eminently so — policies matter. Many Americans remain deeply concerned about their prospects and their children’s in an unstable and unforgiving world. For them, Ms. Harris is clearly the better choice. She has committed to using the power of her office to help Americans better afford the things they need, to make it easier to own a home, to support small businesses and to help workers. Mr. Trump’s economic priorities are more tax cuts, which would benefit mostly the wealthy, and more tariffs, which will make prices even more unmanageable for the poor and middle class.
I’ve been a newspaperman for more than 60 years, reorting news from around the world to outlets based in Virginia, Illinois, Washington, DC and France. I suspect that this year’s American presidebtiak camoaigh will be the last one that I will cover, because of health problems and the limitations of age.
Like millions of other Americans, I voted early this year, and I cast that vote for the only patriot on the ballot — Kamala Harris.
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1 thought on “This Time, America Has Only One Patriotic Choice for President”
I greatly enjoyed Mr. Thompson’s columns in the Telegraph back in the 1980s, an appreciation shared with my father. They were always informative and had a “here’s how it is as I see it” feel that was so refreshing compared to the usual “punditry” of the time (and today). Glad to see we both voted this year; may this not be the last such time for either of us.
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