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Sen. Ben Nelson to Endorse Obama
January 11, 2008 11:29 PM
ABCNews' Sunlen Miller reports: Sen. Ben Nelson, a conservative Democrat from Nebraska, will endorse Barack Obama on Saturday.
The junior senator will announce his endorsement on a conference call with reporters and Obama campaign manager David Plouffe on Saturday morning.
The campaign advises that Nelson will be out on the campaign trail for Obama soon, although plans are still being worked out for his first event.
Nelson's endorsement follows a long list of endorsements the Obama campaign has rolled out following their New Hampshire primary loss.
January 11, 2008 in Kucinich, Dennis | Permalink | User Comments (17)
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Good news, and great job Obama. Obama is so getting support out of his own talent, vision and capabilities.
HRC cannot even run a campaign. Put clinton aside and let see how capable she is.
Go Obama, you are already changing our lives.
Posted by: demos | Jan 11, 2008 11:45:04 PM
Nelson's endorsement of Obama shows Obama can unite the country for a common purpose. Nelson is a conservative democrat. Hillary cannot boast of having any conservative endorsement. Shame on Hillary and her disgraced husband. For staright 28 years, it is either Bush or Clinton as vice president or president of the United States. U.S.A. is not a kingdom; we are a democracy.
Posted by: Sam Lobey | Jan 11, 2008 11:48:53 PM
So Hillary is doing some REAL work, getting out an economic plan to add to her other SPELLED OUT plan, and distinguishing her stand. Meanwhile, Obama gets endorsements; he still has empty rhetoric to me.
Posted by: PC | Jan 11, 2008 11:52:52 PM
He'll have Republicans endorsing him next. No joke. Its a wrap. He just needs to do a commercial with all his endorsers behind him signing like a choir.
Posted by: ROB | Jan 11, 2008 11:55:13 PM
Hillary's campaign is fine without Bill, it's already doing better without Bill. That's why Obama doesn't look more substantial right now!
Furthermore, Obama is just laughable and is truly walking down fairy road if he thinks he has a good chance.
If we choose him, we’re obviously marrying his wife too – so active campaigning for him. People say they don’t want the Clinton years to return. There was nothing bad about the Clinton years!! Our economy was in much better shape than now. The Clintons inherited a deficit from Bush Senior then left a surplus. You can’t group the Clintons with the Bushes. There’s nothing wrong with the “status quo” if it was actually better. It’s Obama and Edwards who are an unnecessary presence.
08’ Hillary !!
We actually have something to look back to with Hillary, Obama and Edwards are just blind hope!
Posted by: PC | Jan 11, 2008 11:56:06 PM
Unfortunately, it is easy to compare the Clintons to the Bushes. They use similar dirty tricks of implied character assasination that Bush-Rove used. The only difference is that Bush-Rove rarely whined.
Posted by: dkr | Jan 12, 2008 1:18:08 AM
Nothing wrong with staus quo?
Instead of unity you want division?
Don't let the HRC rhetorcs brain wash you, listen to the Obama fella, just give him a chance and listen to him.
I found him to be very authentic and trustworthy.
A candidate can say whatever the public wants to hear, to gain political advantages. But the question is can you trust him/her to do the right there when there is pressure? Character and judgement is the better criteria for electing a leader
So what Hillary rolled out an economic plan that's similar to John Edwards, except it's 75 billion instead of 25 billions?
If i may add, that's a lot of money, that's called irresponsible spending.
Wake up!!
Posted by: Jing | Jan 12, 2008 1:22:44 AM
Obama is not qualified. McCain will mop up the floor with him if he gets the nomination. Besides, Hillary's preferred by the Democratic base; he's winning with these right-leaning independents and cross-voting Republicans, but that won't be enough to win him the nomination.
For months he's been saying he's non-partisan, post-baby boom, candidate of hope, the uniter. All the while, he's been jabbing Hillary with character assassination again and again.
Now, a shift for South Carolina: his campaign is in full onslaught mode right now pushing the race buttons - any criticism anyone makes of him, his surrogates come out and yell racism, demand apologies, act outraged. Press release after press release comes out of their camp saying that any comment from anyone - even if they're not in the Clinton campaign - is Clinton's fault and is racist. Well, John Lewis and Maya Angelou and Quincy Jones can tell you about the Clintons; they've all endorsed Hillary.
This is dirty Chicago politics, and also bad strategy; calling a civil rights ally a racist to get yourself ahead is not 'the politics of hope'. Where was his apology to Indian-Americans and to Hillary for that (D-Punjab) dirty politics document?
You will not find out anything about Obama by his speeches because they're fluff. Look at his record in Chicago, running for the legislature, voting present on tough issues, using lawyers to get his Democratic rivals stricken from the ballot, playing poker with lobbyists, etc. Look at the difference between his Senate votes and what he claims. Look at his fundraising bundlers. Look at how often he's skipped votes in the Senate, missed meetings (e.g. for veterans affairs), and how he never even called a hearing for the subcommittee he chairs.
This silver-spoon prep-school upstart is not qualified to be President: he needs to work, not talk, his way there.
Posted by: PanMetron | Jan 12, 2008 5:29:27 AM
"There was nothing wrong with the Clinton years" - PC, Jan 11, 2008 11:56:06 PM
Clinton's military failures in Somalia and Haiti, sitting on his hands and denying genocide and stifling UN action while 800,000 Rwandans were massacred, bombing Iraq in retaliation for the phantom assassination attempt on President George H.W. Bush, bombing a medicine factory in Tanzania, bombing Iraq and Afghanistan to distract from his scandals, turning down offers from the Sudanese and Saudis to extradite Osama bin Laden, "accidentally" bombing the Chinese embassy in Serbia, failing to get any health care reform passed, losing Congress to the Republicans for the last six years of his term, signing the Defense of Marriage act, taking campaign contributions from Chinese government officials, signing NAFTA, humiliating the country and the Democratic Party by not being able to keep his junk in his pants and lying about it, yeah, great stuff.
Posted by: Brendan | Jan 12, 2008 8:08:53 AM
Obama is the real candidate to defeat any Republican cadidate in general election.He has leadership capability.He is qualified to be president. I think character and judgement is the best criteria for electing a leader.The gentleman has those things.He wants to take the America in the right direction with good visions and hopes. He is the best person to unite the country and restore the United States crebility to the outside world.
Posted by: I.A.T Smith | Jan 12, 2008 8:21:13 AM
Well, so much for change. Obama is lining up the establishment behind him and screaming "Change". His actions speak louder than words... this is not "change".... this is the "fairy tale" that Bill was talking about. Although I believe illusionist would have been a better term. Give me the appearance of being the "Change" maker but have the establishment behind me...So I can go status quo if elected
Posted by: Denise in Illinois | Jan 12, 2008 9:02:55 AM
I am independent and was leaning toward Obama from the start, but after listening to him and paying close attention to him, I can honestly decalre as follows:
Lobbied endorsements as is clearly the case with Obama do not mean anything. Obama is using endorsements to conceal his empty rhetoric. The presidency is not a fashion parade, where people excite the crowd without substance to show. The few ideas Obama has picked from news headlines are hollow: He says his health care plan is universal, but it leaves millions without coverage; he brags about objecting to the Iraq war from the start, but in 2004 said he did not know how he would have voted if he were in the senate; he claims he has sound judgement, but in 2004 he supported Bush's vision and strategies in the now failed war in Iraq; he ducked all key votes while a State senator in Illinois; he ducked a key vote that 76 U.S. senators, including senator Clinton voted in favor of sanctioning Iran for killing American soldiers in Iraq and sponsoring terrorism around the world; he sends his surrogates to cry racism once his inconsistencies are questioned; after being coached by one of his concealed campaign chairman-Chris Matthew of MSNBC to attack clinton, he published in the New York Times that he will unleach personal attacks on Clinton and just last weeked threatened to unleach his chicago dirty politics on Clinton, but claims to be running a positive campaign; he yells change wherever he goes, but is being endorsed by the very status quo (Kerry etc) he condemns. I have not decided who to cast my vote for, but I do not trust him.
Posted by: Eugene A | Jan 12, 2008 10:36:13 AM
Eugene,
you're not fooling anyone with that "I am independent and was leaning toward Obama" nonsense. You're clearly just spouting the anti-Obama talking points from the Clinton camp. At least try to conceal it better next time.
Posted by: Mike | Jan 12, 2008 12:51:18 PM
"You will not find out anything about Obama by his speeches because they're fluff. Look at his record in Chicago..."
WWill we ever find out about Hillary CClinton's alleged record? The only tthing we know about Hillary is from hher sspeeches. You can look at OObama's record. No one can find CClinton's
Posted by: PV Bella | Jan 12, 2008 1:27:00 PM
I'm a Republican and there aren't ANY circumstances where I would vote for Clinton. However, I could vote for Obama. This country needs someone who can bring some hope to people. None of the Republican candidates can do this, nor can Clinton. A Clinton candidacy is doomed to fail right out of the gates, assuming a two person contest. Most people will at least consider Obama. At least half the electorate won't consider Clinton under ANY circumstances and that's the flat out reality of the situation.
Posted by: Troy | Jan 12, 2008 1:47:27 PM
Unfortunately, it is easy to compare the Clintons to the Bushes. They use similar dirty tricks of implied character assasination that Bush-Rove used. The only difference is that Bush-Rove rarely whined. - dkr
She is the media established candidate; the big defender of corporations; the candidate who plants questions in campaign events, the candidate who leads by polls and not principles, the candidate who has nothing to run on but her husband’s accomplishment, the candidate with the highest unfavorable rating in the history of the Democratic party; the Hawk; the candidate who voted for the Iraq war; the candidate who said we should only talk to our friends; the candidate who leads in negative campaigning and said attacking other Democrats is the fun part of it.
Hillary is the Dems' Bush.
Posted by: Jack | Jan 12, 2008 3:10:09 PM
I would rather have another Clinton in the White House than some one bought and paid for the Republican party and with no plan to fix what is wrong with our country.
Furthermore, when Bill Clinton left the White House social security had a surplus, where is it now? Second question, What is Obama's plan for creating jobs in this country? What is his plan to secure our borders? What is his plan to resolve the housing crises? We need answers, not just hype.
Posted by: Willie White | Jan 13, 2008 8:51:01 AM
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