Superdelegates Deciding

April 18, 2008

Howard Dean has said he wants the superdelegates to make up their minds and fast! Well, many are and by far the majority are saying Obama! An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they’re for – and “I need them to say who they’re for starting now.” The Democratic blood-letting needs to end. I don’t tbhink Hillary agrees.

Who won the debate this week? Who knows! But what we do know is that the superdelegates are lining up behind Barack quickly. Here’s a recent list.

In the past week alone, the Obama campaign has announced the support of congressmen from North Carolina and Indiana; the Utah state party chair; the Oklahoma state party’s chief fundraiser; 25 South Dakota state legislators; the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers; and, not least, The Boss. Some of these endorsers are super-delegates, and thus of no small consequence to the outcome of the race. Others are simply window-dressing, deployed to create a sense of ineluctable momentum in Obama’s direction.

But later today a big name will move from the Clinton past and into the Obama future, whatever that might be. The endorsement in question is that of Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of Labor and a friend of both the former president and his wife for four decades. Around 1:00pm EST, Reich intends formally to declare his support for Obama on his blog.

Another Judas!

But Reich insists that the endorsement does indeed come as a surprise. Reich had come from Berkeley, where he teaches, to give a speech and meet with some Democrats on Capitol Hill, he explained that, despite the criticisms he’s made of the Clintons (“I call it as I see it”), he had planned to refrain from offering an official backing for Obama out of respect for Hillary. “She’s an old friend,” Reich said, “I’ve known her 40 years. I was absolutely dead set against getting into the whole endorsement thing. I’ve struggled with it. I’ve not wanted to do it. Out of loyalty to her, I just felt it would be inappropriate.”

So what’s changed? “I saw the ads” — the negative!

It’s the Clinton trademark and more and more people are seeing it. As Obama said of the msot recent debate. The time was not spent on issues but “Gotcha” talking points. Enough! Enough of the trash-talking, divisive, and ugly rhetoric. Let’s move on to something new, and it doesn’t have to be that exciting to in comparison.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary