ORLANDO SENTINEL: Endorsement: Joe Biden for president, because he can get us out of Trump's mess

[highplainsdem]

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/endorsements/os-op-sentinel-endorsement-joe-biden-for-president-20200828-tntaxemoyrabtcy4khjugnuqwu-story.html

More than a year ago, the Orlando Sentinel published an editorial saying we wouldn’t endorse Donald Trump for re-election. We facetiously left the door open to changing our mind if, say, he cured cancer.

Not only did the president fail to cure cancer, he botched a health crisis so badly that he made American No. 1 again, this time in total coronavirus cases (pushing 6 million) and COVID-19 deaths (180,000).

Donald Trump has lived down to our lowest expectations since that non-endorsement. It didn’t seem possible at the time, but Trump has gotten worse, a constant chaos president dragging the once-proud Republican Party down with him.

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Biden is honorable, faithful and truthful. He has the emotional capacity for empathy and understanding. He’s a person of faith. He cares more for his country than himself.

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We endorse Joe Biden for president, and we implore Floridians to consider him as a balm to treat the wounds this current president has inflicted on the United States.

Much more at the link.

[Laelth]

1. Hear! Hear! k&r n/t

-Laelth

[steve2470]

2. This was a morally correct and courageous decision

Granted, Orange and Osceola counties are blue, but Seminole, Lake, and Volusia counties are red. They will probably lose subscribers over this, but hopefully gain subscribers from those who admire what they did.

Their original decision was courageous and morally correct as well. That probably cost them also. They did what they SHOULD have done, as all media should.

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Agreed

[sheshe2]

4. They didn't hold back.

Bravo!

[Mr.Bill]

5. Trump will be okay despite this.

I'm pretty sure he still has the highly coveted endorsements of Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. If he loses either of those he's toast.

[mac56]

8. Not to mention the My Pillow guy.

[ancianita]

6. Wow, Orlando Sentinel! The best straight talk endorsement a newspaper can make!

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Right out of the gate in 45's home state!

Other papers will probably follow suit.

I wonder if FL voters will.

[flibbitygiblets]

9. I wonder how blatant the FL voter registration purge will be this year

and right along party lines

[ancianita]

11. As blatant as Rethugs always are. You can bet they're workin' on it.

I'm hoping other red state newspapers will take up the Sentinel's banner.

This is BIG.

[Fritz Walter]

12. Haven't you heard?

Just yesterday, the Repuke-appointees to SCOTUS decided to allow Florida to place voting restrictions on ex-felons:

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Florida to block more than a million convicted felons from voting if they have outstanding court fines and fees after serving time behind bars. The justices chose not to overturn a hold on a federal appeals court ruling that would have enfranchised the voters.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan dissented. In her opinion, Sotomayor wrote that the high court's ruling "continues a trend of condoning disenfranchisement."

During the 2018 midterm elections, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that granted certain non-violent felons the right to vote. The measure, known as Amendment 4, restored eligibility to an individual "after they complete all terms of their sentence."

Source: CBS News. Emphasis added.

The purge is already underway. That's why we need to get each and every blue-vote cast and counted.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Well, damn.

Long way from the Mikes years.

[NCjack]

10. Come on Orlando Sentinel, call for Trump's resignation NOW.

[Sloumeau]

13. I read it in full.

It was a well-written, well-organized, solid takedown of a terrible President and a truly evil man. May God only show limited mercy on his evil soul.

[Grins]

14. That was quick!!! NM

[Cha]

15. Well Done, Orlando Sentinel!

We endorse Joe Biden for president, and we implore Floridians to consider him as a balm to treat the wounds this current president has inflicted on the United States.