Obama’s Hometown Jewish Newspaper Endorses Romney

From the Chicago Jewish Star

In many ways this is still a post-9/11 world. The threat of Islamic terror, a depressed and failing economy, an unsure future for a troubled healthcare system, a genocidal-spewing Iran, an unbalanced Middle East- these are some of the problems which surfaced after that fateful September day and mutated afterwards in unexpected ways....

Contrary to the implications of Mr. Obama’s 2008 statement, Americans provided for the sick before his time; the rise of the oceans did not begin “to slow” and our planet did not begin “to heal”- not in a metaphoric sense and not in a real one.

 

Mr. Obama’s unsatisfactory direction for America was rooted in untenable assumptions, fueled by arrogance, and promoted by divisiveness. We don’t need more of that.

 

It is not only that Mr. Obama thus deserves to be a one-term proposition; it is that Mr. Romney is simply the better bet for our country.
 

I would add that in many ways this is still a post-2008 world.  The economic issues are not on the path to resolution.  Joblessness and hopelessness is now the "new normal" for many.  Dependence - the permanent, debilitating kind - has increased.  The racial divide, which was shrinking has widened again, and to that has emerged a new, virulent class war instigated and stoked for political gain.   By "never letting a good crisis go to waste" the Obama administration has taken a nation that had a bad fall and given it an infection that threatens it very life.