tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38615856892235391432012-01-10T23:19:21.025-08:00"Sometimes we're kept honest simply by the gift of being unfit for mass consumption." --Michael VenturaJacqueline Jeffreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03569648537405023415noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861585689223539143.post-34473967627707072192008-02-02T23:39:00.000-08:002011-07-27T23:45:02.744-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 10px 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font: normal normal bold 135%/normal 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 29px; padding-right: 14px; padding-top: 2px;">Austin American-Statesman Endorses...</h3><div class="post-header-line-1"></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 29px; padding-right: 14px; padding-top: 10px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John McCain for the Republicans</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama for the Democrats</span><br /><br />Barack continues to rack up some impressive editorial endorsements (LA Times and Chicago Tribune, for example). It's debatable what they're worth, and I'm sure the Statesman's is low down on the list, but I just had to report what the hometown editorial board has decided:</div><blockquote style="border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #558866; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.75em; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 5px;">Like a veteran slugger on deck, Hillary Clinton has campaigned principally on the logic that it is her turn at bat. Democrats must resist the instinct to select the next in line and grab instead the best hitter on the bench. That is Barack Obama.</blockquote>On the subject of editorial board endorsements, it was interesting to see that the New York Times endorsed Hillary, and over the next several days the</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3861585689223539143-3447396762770707219?l=blaneconklin.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jacqueline Jeffreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03569648537405023415noreply@blogger.com0