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More superdelegates declare for Obama

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor April 16, 2008 01:39 PM

Barack Obama's campaign today announced the backing of three superdelegates in Indiana and North Carolina, the next states on the Democratic nomination calendar after Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary.

In North Carolina, which votes May 6, US Representatives David Price of Chapel Hill and Mel Watt of Charlotte endorsed Obama. They had previously supported John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, before he suspended his campaign.

"With all of the challenges we face -- from the war in Iraq to the foreclosure crisis -- we desperately need change in the White House. And Barack Obama represents that kind of change," Price said in a statement issued by the Obama campaign. "Senator Obama is the candidate best equipped to transcend the conflicts and resentments of the past, while energizing and inspiring the newest generation of American voters."

Watt, former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Obama "listens to Americans across the country and understands the problems they face -- and what it will take to solve those problems. In these difficult economic times, we need a president who will serve regular Americans, not special interests."

And in Indiana, Congressman Andre Carson said he is supporting Obama because he is "a fighter for working families, and part of a new generation of leadership that will bring needed change for our country."

Obama has won the support of far more superdelegates in recent weeks than Clinton, though she still holds a slight lead among the elected officials and party leaders who will likely decide the nomination because it is mathematically nearly impossible for either to get enough pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses to clinch.

22 comments so far...
  1. The Supers are waking up and smelling the rot of Clinton campaign. Good for them!

    Posted by LM April 16, 08 01:56 PM
  1. I LOVE THE WINDS OF CHANGE...

    NO MORE DIRTY SHEETS IN THE WHITE HOUSE...

    Posted by NATIVEEYESAREWATCHING April 16, 08 01:58 PM
  1. Meanwhile, the Hillary Clinton campaign--the political equivalent of a Batan death march-- and the Republican smear n' spin masters, who can't figure out which label they rather pin on Obama (take your pick): "elitist", "inexperienced", a radical Muslim, a "racist", or an uppity "Boy" (and that last one sure bears closer scrutiny by the news media since it is a pretty good foreshadowing of what we can expect from the Republicans when Obama becomes the Democratic nominee), just continue to drag political discourse down further and further into the mud.


    Meanwhile, as Hillary tosses back shots of whiskey and does her best to imitate a Rottweiler, and as McCain fumbles around trying to sound like a progressive Republican while hauling out the same old tired and miserably failing economic policies of the intellectually-stunted and morally bankrupt political reigh of baby Bush, Obama keeps get more delegates, more endorsements, more support.

    Kind of telling, is it not?

    Posted by oaklynne April 16, 08 02:16 PM
  1. Thank you Congressman Andre Carson and US Representatives David Price and Mel Watt for endorsing Senator Obama! He is the ONLY candidate who will bring America in the quagmire in which we find ourselves. He genuinely believes in "A GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND OF THE PEOPLE, and he is the one that can turn us in this direction. I am looking forward to Senator Obama becoming our President and Commander-in-Chief.

    As I see it, Hillary totally failed the Commander-in-Chief test when she stated on 4 or 5 different occassions that "I remember landing in Bosnia amidst sniper fire, putting our heads down, and running to our cars" . She got caught in a full-fledged fraudulant claim! Then she went a step farther by going on the Jay Leno Show and joking and laughing that she "was last because she got caught in sniper fire". Her words and behavior depict a person who has NO respect for our fighting men and women in Iraq and Afhanistan! She has greatly insulted our servicemen and servicewomen who have lost their lives in these wars, She gave GWB the green light to attack Iraq and helped put our troops there and she rewards them by false claims of sniper fire and joking and laughing about sniper fire??? This is the epitomy of disgusting behavior and every single American who cares about our military servicemen and servicewomen should recognize the great insult to our fine members of our military services--4000+ have paid the ultimate price in Iraq, thousands returning with missing limbs, brain damage, paralized, and severe mental and emotional stress, and Hillary makes fun of sniper fire?? I have not heard her apologize to anyone!! She owes the entire country an apology. The best we got for fraudulant claims was, "I misspoke". Pathetic!! And she wants to be the Commander and Chief of our Armed Forces????

    Posted by NinaK April 16, 08 02:24 PM
  1. No one really knows Obama or how he will act in the
    White House. He has no known history. Senator Clinton is being negatively judged because she is a woman and married to Bill Clinton. The same people who shout the importance of family values are ridiculing her for keeping her family intact by staying with her husband and rejecting divorce. How ironic. Shame on some for being hippocrites. As for dirty sheets, does that mean sheets Bill dirtied and Hillary didn't wash because she wasn't a good little woman? Women remain in the society on the lowest rung of the ladder, not supported by MEN OR WOMEN. How can we criticize other countries for not giving women their rights? We have a long way to go ourselves. Remember that in the last few weeks Senator Clinton has been the only one giving answers to important questions while Barak has spent his time pretending to know how to bowl to impress the "common man." Watch out! We need a president who knows how to not only talk but to act and not step on the tail when talking.

    Posted by AB April 16, 08 02:32 PM
  1. Clinton campaign is “dirty”?

    Hillary Clinton (mildly in comparison to Obama’s “cling to religion comment) insulted the voters of Mississippi by questioning the importance of that state in the nominating process months before the primary there in Iowa (“…how can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi?”).

    Obama's campaign dug up the quote on the eve of the Mississippi primary and referred to it night and day in a very hard hitting radio ad accusing Clinton of insulting Mississippians, and it hurt her very badly in the Magnolia State's primary. (In the 30-second spot former Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus accused Clinton of calling Mississippi voters “second class.”)

    This is not rocket science.

    People do not like to have their views dissed as less legitimate than someone else’s, and people are particularly sensitive about their religion. Many Midwesterners are also passionate about hunting. But for Obama to deliver the insult in a way that suggests that Miswestern views and values are the pathetic and unconscious result of their miserable lot in life is political suicide with that huge segment of the general electorate. It's as simple as that.

    This grave insult to Midwesterners cannot be undone, and as Obama’s own Mississippi supporters proved, can be invoked by John McCain at will months later to tank the senator from Illinois in the general election in the Midwestern regions should the Democratic super-delegates be foolish enough to anoint him as the party’s nominee on August 25, 2008 in Denver.

    Posted by Stephen Gianelli April 16, 08 02:35 PM
  1. BARACK HUSSAIN OBAMA CONTINUES TO BE A THREAT TO NATIONAL MATURITY!

    OBAMAS PRIEST A NATION OF ISLAM CHEERLEADER AND AMERICA BASHER SHED A LITTLE LIGHT ON OBAMAS SHADOW SIDE.

    HIS ASSALT ON THE CONSTITUTION INCLUDING 2ND AMENDMENT AND HIS IDEAS ABOUT FIRST STRIKE ON A NUCLEAR ARMED ALLIE (PAKISTAN HOSTILE TRIBES) RAISE QUESTIONS!

    Posted by ADAMS April 16, 08 02:36 PM
  1. David Price and Mel Watt are two of the finest North Carolinians ever to serve in Congress. Their support will be noted in the Democratic Cloakroom in the Capitol.

    Posted by John April 16, 08 02:38 PM
  1. Typing in all caps is a sure sign of maturity and knowledge of actual issues. If this is what we have to look forward to when HRC drops out, as someone once said, "Bring it on"! Barack is ready!

    Posted by LM April 16, 08 02:48 PM
  1. I never thought I would see the day that I would agree with Hillary about anything, but her point that Senator Barach H. Oboma is an elitist is right on the mark. I also believe Barach H. Oboma is a very inteligent politician and doesn't say anything he hasn't carefully thought out to have the maximum affect. What I mean is, he knew the public reaction was going to be negative, and that he would emerge stronger having gained respect from his party faithful for saying something no thoughtful person would even consider but was designed get the publics attention big time.
    To that end he has succeeded and will receive an atta boy from George Soros and Reverend Wright.

    Posted by John's Son April 16, 08 04:40 PM
  1. Hey John's Son...why don't you spell his name right? Oh wait, does proper spelling make me elitist too?

    After W, maybe we need someone with an elite mind to get us out of this mess that the Andover-Yale-educated W got us into. Yeah.

    BTW, in case you hadn't heard the Wellesley-Yale-Governor's Mansion-White House-Chappaqua-$109 million HRC is elite. So is the 8-vacation-home-needs-connections-to-get-into-Navy Academy-John McCain.

    Give me a break and a real argument.

    Posted by LM April 16, 08 04:49 PM
  1. I for one want a president who is more intelligent than I am. I want a president who can make me feel stupid, because he/she is so darn smart. I want a president who tells it like it is. George "Dumbya" Bush makes me feel like a genius. That's frightening, because I do not think I could handle the job of president, and unfortunately Dumbya has proven he can't.

    I don't think America is ready for Obama. I believe racism, fear and the good old right wing smear machine will make sure that he does not get elected.

    For all of you who are scared that Barack HUSSEIN Obama will be president, you can rest easy. I'm pretty sure we'll have 4 more years of the same (government by the corporations for the corporations, Iraq war, an eroding middle class, inflation, AmericWall Street corruption, the selling of America to China to fund the war, historically high revenues for oil companies, no "space race-like" plan for developing alternative green energies, no real progress in dealing with global warming - which thanks to Bush and his crew many people are still too ignorant to believe is real).


    Posted by Mpagner April 16, 08 07:10 PM
  1. John's Son, are you for real. She is from a rich family. On top of that, she and her husband brought in $109 million in seven years. If that is not elitist, what do you call that.

    Posted by Patrick April 16, 08 07:27 PM
  1. Three more nails in the She-Weasel's Coffin!
    Will Shrillary get KKK Sen Byrd as a super delegate?
    What level of trash and lies will the Nixonian Jr. Carpetbagger from NY stoop to tonight?

    Posted by remus April 16, 08 08:40 PM
  1. Throughout this presidential campaingn I hear old time good politicians some of whom have occupied their offices for more than two decades calling out for change only in the presidential elections vied for by candidates who are just for the first time fighting to change the present government.Honestly speaking, even a second grader could differentiate between these two nouns; William and Hillary.

    Posted by SAK April 16, 08 09:59 PM
  1. I wished that the two commentators had spent more time on the issues than about personal questions that has no business in politics.

    Senator Barack is correct, we need to get away from the old style of politics because that is the only way that we can go foward.

    I enjoyed the debate. Senator Clinton was good, but she is not the one that can bring about the changes we need in this country right now.

    We are in a new age and Senator Barack is the one that can deliver on his promises.

    Jo

    Posted by Jo April 16, 08 10:40 PM
  1. It is incredibly depressing to see how ABC's debate today has been so controlled by pro-Clinton and her Republican conservative friends. Both groups want Senator Obama out of the race. Obama threatens business as usual in Congress and the WH. He will change our government to take it away from the lobbyists and oligarchs. He will work openly for national security, peace and the American people. Hillary, Wolfson, and the Clinton machine seize every opportunity to smear Obama, to throw the whole dirty kitchen sink at him (flag pins, guilt by assocation, etc, etc). Where is the debate on issues crucial to our nation, economy, education, security, future? This ABC cheap take on gotcha politics proves how mainstream media is still owned and run by Clinton power brokers. Our beloved republic is well on its way to becoming a Roman dynastic empire, with the Bush-Clinton dynasties leaching off the ordinary citizens, enabled by their henchmen and women.

    Posted by lin April 16, 08 11:10 PM
  1. Andre Carson... just "elected" to office based on the support for your mother, whom I supported wholeheartedly! There is no way in _ _ _ _ that you could sincerely evaluate the merits of the campaigns of Clinton and Obama and not base your "endorsement" on anything other than race. Obama does NOT have the EXPERIENCE to move into the oval office. I sincerely believe that your mother would not want your support to be based on race and not on the track record of the candidates.

    Posted by J April 16, 08 11:31 PM
  1. If given a choice between an intelectual elitist or a lying pit-bull; I'll take my chances with the intelectual elitist everytime. Hillary will say anything that she thinks will get her elected; she is as phony as her husband was. Who does she think she was kidding in having a Shot and a Beer with the "boys" in an attempt to show that she can fit in with the "common-folk" yet her history is that she rarely drank while she was 1st Lady or after her husband left office. Obama may not be "experienced" but from observations, what you see is what you will get.

    Posted by Jay April 17, 08 10:06 AM
  1. Inexperience is what we need! Not the same old corrupt greedy selfish politics we have had for years. Cut the bull**** and get down to what is important. The only reason for the attacks that Obama has seen is because everyone knows he will become the next president. Race doesn't matter, Being honest and telling it like it is, looking out for the people that break there backs just so the rich can sit on there fat asses and never worry about anything, thats what is important. Close the cultural gaps, build unity from within and build a strong economy on a sturdy base, not the trickle down method that doesn't work. Do you build a house starting with the roof?

    Posted by JoeforObamaalltheway April 17, 08 12:51 PM
  1. 'Inexperience is what we need! '


    so you're voting for Hillary? no one running has less political experience than MRS Clinton. Her experience lies in lying and she's really not very good at it. But the worst thing about her is that while she is well educated she is not smart. smart people who are married to the president might figure out that when the press is present someone is recording what you are saying and doing. DUMB

    Posted by james d granata April 18, 08 07:46 PM
  1. Austan Goolsbe, Obama Economics advisor is, in my Grandpa's words -an educated idiot.

    Goolsbee, who must have several degress in economics, says we must be careful to identify the cause of - the rich getting richer and everybody else getting poorer.

    Goolsbee says the cause is: dramatically increased returns to skill i.e. college degrees are paying off better and better all the time.

    Uh, huh, yeah but that does nothing to explain the rise of the super rich, nor the increasing poverty of everyone else.

    The cause is simple: Reagan cut the top tax rate down from the 70%'s to the low 30%'s AND Corporations all over America trotted out the "Two-Tier Wage Structure" - - right after Reagan was elected. i.e. pay everybody at the top a whole lot MORE, pay everybody else a whole lot LESS.

    The rich are getting richer, and have been doing so at a faster & faster rate for the past 30 years - because of RADICALLY INCREASED RETURNS to CAPITAL.

    Everybody else has been getting poorer and poorer over that same time span because its been CORPORATE POLICY to pay everybody else a whole lot less; (not to mention the fact that -everybody else has been Paying a Lot More Taxes - to make up that portion of the Federal Budget no longer being paid by the wealthy/not currently being "borrowed" from our children and grandchildren.)

    My grandpa was a farmer, son of a share cropper. In his later years he worked for an experimental farm operated by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. The people who ran the farm had degrees in agriculture. My grandpa had a LIFETIME of EXPERIENCE.

    When the ...educated idiots... wanted to get some plants to actually GROW & prosper IN THE REAL WORLD they had to have my Grandpa SHOW THEM and TELL THEM
    HOW to do it.

    Condoleeza Rice & the whole gang of "Vulcans" that gaggle of neocons ... are educated idiots, along with Zbigniew Berzinski, one of Obama's "foreign policy" advisors.

    All they've ever DONE is ... write, postulate, publish their latest hare-brained claptrap & Wait ... for applause and compliments from the same "'highly' specialized literary" ilk as themselves.

    Paying those at the top a Whole LOT MORE has paid off handsomely for the corporations and politicians...because... those at the top - responsible for things like morals, ethics, obeying the laws, are ALREADY Paid off to ... look the other way ...incentivized... to sell their fellow humans down the river.

    Case in point: Howard Fineman of Time magazine, and, a MSNBC "News Analyst" ... plaintively whining to Chris Matthews on Hardball last week: They shouldn't be complaining about US - they shouldn't be blaming US for our coverage ... We're JOURNALISTS --- reporters --- we just report the facts.

    NO. They are highly paid Propaganda Operatives who would make Goebbels (Hitler's Propaganda Minister) PROUD.

    Ge, 2nd largest corporation on the planet, Westinghouse, Excelon Corp of Illinois, Entergy w/utilities in the Southern States have been planning since 2005 When the Cheney Energy Bill was passed - to build 29 new nuclear power plants. (licensing hearing for the first few have already been scheduled).

    GE owns MSNBC & NBC. Westinghouse owns CBS. AND they have Billions of Advertising $$$$ to spread around in all forms of media. Obama & McCain are PRO-Nuclear. Clinton says nuclear can be considered in the future IF they make it CHEAPER and find a way to SAFELY and PERMANENTLY dispose of the nuke waste.

    i.e. the Cause of the Media Propaganda Blitz Pro-Obama & McCain / Anti-clinton is the result of GE, et al's desire to gain $$billions in profits RISK-FREE by building 29 new nukes AND higher electricity rates for the next 30-40 years.

    The Mainstream Media (the most blatant offenders being MSNBC & NBC) are busy selling We the People and Democracy in America ... down the river.

    The media is holding a lid on all the bad news about Obama ... until AFTER he gets the nomination. Then, the full force of their Propaganda BARRAGE will be directed against him, instead of FOR him.

    Thereby, leaving nobody but McCain ACTUALLY running for President.

    Starting out the campaign season with the consensus of opinion being that a large majority of voters were all in favor of electing Hillary Clinton President w/Any Republican nominees chances of being elected standing at virtually NIL ... what was the nasty party of the BAD/GREEDY contingent of the rich & super rich TO DO?

    Same thing they Always do Pinky ... Divide & Conquer! (HOW ELSE can a very small minority CONTROL a much larger majority?)

    Can YOU think of anything better to DIVIDE the Democratic Party than ... to run a black man Against THAT WOMAN?

    Contrary to the Media's BIG LIES:

    Obama started the negative campaigning several months ago during the first Philadelphis debate. He began with NAME-CALLING - with him & his wife endlessly repeating ... disingenuous...Hillary's disingenuous ... while his campaign staff and surrogates went on TV yelling ... She's a Liar, a Liar, a liar.

    Next, the Obama campaign pushed those ... totally absurd ... accusations of "racism" to the press because they were LOSING the South Carolina primary.

    The LYING & Propaganda have continued to this day ... Obama's the negative dirty campaigner --- Hillary gets blamed for it. Neither one can gain enough delegates to get the nomination ON THE BASIS OF DELEGATES, but DELEGATE COUNT, having FAILED to get the job done ... the Media Proclaims that Delegate Count should be the ONLY criteria to get the job done.

    First the Obama camp INSISTS on Playing by the RULES:(FL & MI delegates DON"T COUNT); but, NOT Playing by the RULES: SuperDelegates are ENTITLED to and CHARGED to: SELECT the BEST, most Electable candidate --- that's the RULES --- But NO, don't do THAT!

    Obama claims he has special "talents" for working across the aisles, bringing people together to get good new progressive legislation passed (--- CHANGE --- We can Believer In ---) as EXEMPLIFIED - by the 26 wonderful Bills he got passed WHILE in the ILLINOIS legislature.

    But ... according to a hometown Chicago news reporter - all 26 Bills were passed in ONE Year because the Democratic legislative leader .... gave Obama .... all the good legislation OTHER Senators had been WRITING, CRAFTING, and WORKING to get passed .... during all the years when the Republicans had majority control.

    One year to get 26 bills passed would leave .... suspiciously little TIME for .... working across the aisles, bringing people together to get them passed .... & given a Democratic Majority .... how much NEED to "work across the aisles" to get the bills passed actually existed? Obama's claim appears to be FALSE. He has little to NO accomplishments or experience that would in any way qualify him to be President of anything --- or --- give him much more than a CLUE about how to get legislation passed in the U.S. Congress ... absent ... a party leader willing to Falsely give him credit for other people's work.

    Things that DON'T ADD UP: The Obama campaign has been bragging to the compliant media parrots since January that he has raised 2X, 3X, and now 5X as much money as the Clinton campaign .... from .... we the little people, but if that's the case then ..... why hasn't he been getting 2X, 3X, 5X MORE VOTES in the primaries from all us little people who support him to the extent of giving him money?

    If, as Obama keeps repeating - Clinton is the "establishment candidate", the candidate of corporate controlled America, the candidate financed by Washington Lobbyists for the corporate controllers of our economy & government ---- Then, WHY is Clinton's campaign chronically running out of money ... WHILE .... the Obama Campaign has been full up to the gills with cash since January? Why is it the Clinton campaign that has been financed the past several months by .... WE the People?
    WHY does the media keep on allowing Obama to tell the BIG LIE that he does not accept money from LOBBYISTS?

    He used to say .... I don't take money from REGISTERED FEDERAL Lobbyists. Technically, True. But, he does take money from STATE Lobbyists and the husbands, wives, law partners, aunts, uncles and cousins of REGISTERED FEDERAL LOBBYISTS.

    I found that information, (including plenty of details), with very little searching on the internet, so you would think the media could, and would, find it too .... you would think that .... only IF you had not been watching the media very much this campaign season.

    For those millions of us who HAVE been watching - the Outright Propaganda and brainwashing put out all day everyday by the MSM -- quickly becomes repetitive, boring, DRIVEL. We stopped watching it and went searching the internet for REAL Information.

    The MSM sold you Reagan, Bush 1, and Bush 2 TWICE. The MSM sold you the Iraq War. Are you going to just sit there and let them Sell you Obama/McCain/ 29 nuclear power plants? i.e. the NEXT Big Cheney Energy MONOPOLY RIPOFF just waiting in the wings?

    Going to let The Media Sell You, Your Children and Grandchildren Down the River? Democracy down the tubes - again?.

    Or, are YOU going to get THE WORD Out .... copy paste .... & email to everyone on your email list .... paste into blogs on the internet, in newspapers, magazines, radio & TV stations .... nationally and locally.

    WE the People are in the same situation as the Russians during the days of Samidzat .... when they made Xerox copies & passed them around as the only means available to get the word out about their govt & its govt controlled media ---- but, we've got a LOT BETTER TECHNOLOGY than they had.

    Posted by elme April 23, 08 08:19 PM
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