NYT rips Dubya a new one

The NYT endorses Kerry and in the process, provides a scathing review of the Bushco presidency.

Not that it will sway any swing voters in states other than say New Jersey or Pennsylvania, but a strong endorsement none-the-less.

Currently, Bush and Kerry are tied in terms of the number of newspaper endorsements, but Kerry has roughly a 3-1 lead in terms of total circulation. The NYT addition breaks the 13-13 tie, but we can expect many more to come over the next few days.

The Times also published this piece by Ron Suskind in this weekend's Times Magazine. Talk about scary, this will really raise the hair on your neck. Here's a taste:

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Talk about being out of touch with reality, the shrubberies have gone off the deep end. I haven't read anything this scary since I last read Stephen King.

17 days and counting...