A silent slap at Dick Cheney: His hometown newspaper endorses Barack Obama

The editorial concluded bluntly: "We endorse Barack Obama for president."

Not a happy read this morning for Vice President Dick Cheney in his hometown Casper Star-Tribune. And Cheney compaigned in Wyoming on Saturday for John McCain.

Somehow, however, the paper managed the produce its endorsement editorial without reference to Cheney or President Bush--while making abundantly clear that conditions in the country after eight years of their leadership demanded a change.

The newspaper's editorial board wrote:

The next occupant of the White House will inherit a national economy that's collapsing and two wars our nation has been fighting for years, depleting valuable resources we need to fix a multitude of domestic problems. Far too many of our nation's citizens live paycheck to paycheck, worried about whether they'll have a job next week or if a medical crisis will bankrupt them.

By a count assembled by Editor & Publisher, that makes the pro-Obama editorial tally over McCain 250 to 110.

-- James Gerstenzang

Photo: Ben Woloszyn / Laramie Daily Boomerang, via Associated Press

Comments

[PlumHunter]

Dick Cheney - Bush's Goebbels ... Someone who would trash our Constitution for any political gain; to push his view of a Great Society down the throat of every American citizen and any country that would stand in his way

[W]

this is now surprise, hie and GW screwed this country so bad, both their native state's hate their guts. These two idiots put Oboma alone in office. Way to go shooter, this time retire, count your millions and don't come back.