Sometimes, an endorsement hurts more than helps.

See Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post, "A Vote for Senator Caroline", endorsing Caroline Kennedy for N.Y. Senate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2008/12/08/AR2008120803294. html?hpid=opinionsbox1

"On the question of Caroline Kennedy for Senate, my head says no, on balance. My heart says yes! Yes!"

Okay, so she knows it makes no sense.

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A person could get the impression that the Washington Post hates to see regular people with retirement security.

Consider that they want to raid their production workers' pension fund as a precondition to negotiating over giving them their first raise in five years. Consider that last October, an unsigned editorial harshed on Hillary Clinton for not wanting to "fix" a system that was "not sustainable", or that this July, one of their reporters misrepresented Obama's and McCain's positions on Social Security in order to suggest that everyone believes the system is "fragile." Consider their in-house columnist, Ruth Marcus.

Marcus was sitting on a panel this March when she declared that the 10 smartest Democrats and 10 smartest Republicans could fix Social Security in two hours if they were all put in a room together for that purpose. Is she ignorant of the fact that the 10 smartest Republicans have spent the last few years trying to dismantle Social Security? One would hope not. She is a DC-based political columnist for the Washington Post, after all.

She might also have noticed that the Republican plan to turn Social Security into an oxymoron by replacing it with the stock market (Does she ever read the business section of the paper she works for?) was universally unpopular with seniors, people who will be seniors in short order, and people who plan on growing up to be seniors someday. If she did know, she neglected to mention it.

Today, Marcus had fun bashing Social Security in the Post's pages once again, while taking swipes at Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a book review, emphasis mine:

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The topic below was originally posted in my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal.

An editorial in the March 12th edition of The Nation, (subscription required) noted that Great Britain and the United States have the worst quality of life in the developed world. They cite statistics in a new Unicef Report entitled, Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries.

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