Only Iraq Vet In House Endorses Obama

TPM Election Centra:

Iraq vet and Dem Congressman Patrick Murphy is set to endorse Barack Obama in a conference call this morning.

Murphy, who's used his veteran status to speak out forcefully against the war, will likely employ his moderately high profile as a war opponent to amplify Obama's message that his early opposition to the Iraq invasion makes him the most genuinely anti-war of all the candidates. We'll bring you more after the conference call.

Read the whole story: TPM Election Centra

Comments

[ResidentChimp]

08:42 PM on 08/21/2007

It will be interesting to see if this endorsement does anything for Obama. I doubt it. The majority of the public is not anti-war, thay are anti-losing the war. Obama, himself is at odds with Murphy in regards to the war. Will Murphy turn around and support Obama going into Pakistan? I think not.

[May2002]

07:43 PM on 08/21/2007

How much I hope Obama will win and how much I scare that another 4 years of Clinton after 8 years of Bush.

I am craving for a fresh talent to lead the country to a new direction.

[Marilyn Ferdinand]

05:36 PM on 08/21/2007

OK, who do you think I am? I use my real name. You don't. Don't monkey with me, you coward.

[MrBritesnide]

05:52 PM on 08/21/2007

I can imagine your family name would coinside with BULL.

The question is who the hell do YOU think you are?

[Marilyn Ferdinand]

06:05 PM on 08/21/2007

When you learn to spell and come out of the closet, I'll engage with you further. Until then, you're just a fanatical little troll to me.

[Marilyn Ferdinand]

05:13 PM on 08/21/2007

You know what? He's raised record amounts of money. Would it kill him to refuse the $191,000 from Exelon? Just for the sake of appearances? Is that one teeny, tiny thing he could do to change things RIGHT NOW?

[MrBritesnide]

05:26 PM on 08/21/2007

I have a little dictum i live by...

"Don't let anyone monkey with your swing"

Especially undercover bitches.

[Waitaminute]

11:56 PM on 08/21/2007

Those were individual donations. How would you know that the all the donors worked for "Exelon". Did they put i am an employee of ""Exelon" on the freaking check. Again, how would you know. LAURA

[RusStyles]

05:10 PM on 08/21/2007

You're looking for Jesus...And you see how his own folks treated him. I believe he WILL change some things, and live with the rules that are beyond--or anybody else's--purview. You feeling me?

[Chocolate2008]

05:10 PM on 08/21/2007

YES!

YES!

YES!

YES!

Barack Obama 2008!

JUDGEMENT MATTERS !

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/8/21/163840/973

[DaRight]

05:48 PM on 08/21/2007

....

You will be allowed to post this nonsense until Hillary is nominated...

After that you will SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE..Bend over and VOTE for HILLARY like the DLC COMMANDS...Got it? Good.

Signed, The DLC

[Marilyn Ferdinand]

05:03 PM on 08/21/2007

Rus - You see smart enough to understand that I don't trust politicians - any politicians. I believe that actions speak louder than words. I believe Obama is running because the enormously positive response (including from me, who voted for him for Senator) he got to his speech at the DNC created a groundswell that makes him think he can win.

I've had experience with him as my representative, and I've frankly been disappointed at his "don't rock the boat" stances on many issues of importance to me (based on his responses to my letters). He's got a good act, but I have yet to see much follow through. If you think he's going to suddenly deliver once he's in the White House, I think you're in for a rude awakening.

[MrBritesnide]

05:25 PM on 08/21/2007

I think YOU'RE the one that's in for a rude awakening. Because I think he's going to be vice-president.

[SteveRoach]

04:42 PM on 08/21/2007

Union Beards have infiltrated Hillary's campaign.

The Teamsters have Bill wrapped up in a bankruptcy interference lawsuit.

Hillary, look within your campaign to clean house.

[KindAndThoughtful]

04:39 PM on 08/21/2007

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[keiran]

07:38 PM on 08/21/2007

dear kind and thoughtful, you sort of are. Both. I can tell.

[Marilyn Ferdinand]

03:42 PM on 08/21/2007

My point is that Obama has been campaigning as someone new and different. He's supposed to change business as usual in the running of this country. I say, if you're going to sound like a preacher, you'd better practice what you preach, or get real.

Exaggerating my criticism only hurts your cause and shows how narrow-minded you can be andyboy--punting to inferring I or anyone who questions Obama (even though I'm a real constituent from Illinois who has experience under his leadership) a racist is about as low as it gets.

[RusStyles]

03:50 PM on 08/21/2007

I don't think you're a racist; purist perhaps, and in a perfet world that would be great. Look...to use a sports analogy, if you're playing basketball with players that throw elbows and the refs don't call it, what do you do? You play by the uwritten rules to be competitive, and ultimately win. Once you become top dog, you're in a better position to change "some" of the rules. No politician can make wholesale changes to a system this rooted. You sound smart enough to understand this immutable fact.

[SeanGardner]

03:30 PM on 08/22/2007

excellent analogy!!!

[OhPlease2007]

03:38 PM on 08/21/2007

Congrats to Senator Obama for gaining this Congressional Vet's endorsement.

:)

Edwards/Obama '08!

[sarge]

06:50 PM on 08/21/2007

OhPlease...you have it backwards..."Obama/Edwards '08"

[keiran]

07:36 PM on 08/21/2007

That would be a good ticket.

[Ammobob]

03:32 PM on 08/21/2007

Wow, he's got me convinced.

Osama 08!

[GarsLuber]

04:26 PM on 08/21/2007

You did believe bush boy.

Doesn't speak well for your intellect.

[smartstuart]

03:30 PM on 08/21/2007

HUFFPO jumps into political bed with Barack Hussein Obama once again! Just endorse him, Arianna, and stop trying to bullshit us bullshitters!!!

[sarge]

03:08 PM on 08/21/2007

Um, current soldiers just submitted a NY Times op-ed critical of the surge and the way it is being spun by pundits and the media to paint an unrealistically rosie picture.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-rieckhoff/the-82nd-airborne-vs-the_b_61201.html

[ExposingCommunists]

03:00 PM on 08/21/2007

SO WHAT! Cheney gave a speech to 700 former Marines and he received two standing ovations and was wildly interrupted twenty times.

How many current Marines are calling up the Communist Party and their United for Peace and Justice front organization asking for an ACLU/NLG lawyer to go AWOL? If the CPUSA had any, you can guarantee they would make them a puppet like they did to Cindy. Of course Cindy was easy to DUPE since she has half a brain.

When it comes time to vote, those American soldiers, and their families, will remember who said that the "terrorists are the real freedom fighters" and who accused them of "raiding homes in the dead of night" and that "this country is not worth dying for!" They'll remember the John Murtha's of Congress and their state representatives too! They'll also remember who cheered more for enemy rights more than their own and who called them "murderers and rapists" and then saying that they "support the troops" which actually means they support "murderers and rapists" which doesn't make sense.

Current soldiers are saying the MSM isn't telling the full truth about the good they are doing in Iraq and that the MSM only focus on the destruction which most of the time, they have no control over.

[andyboy]

03:22 PM on 08/21/2007

Rah Rah Rah sis boom bah! Cue trumpet blast.

Why is it all you ever seem to be concerned with is "when it comes time to vote"?

I hope you have undies on under your short little cheerleader skirt. Don't worry son we all know your a diehard Republican. You aren't going to win any converts over here.

Hey take heart little fella! George of the Bungle was a flaming faggot member of the Glee club too. He even pretended to be in the military between bouts of homo sex and mounds of coke and oceans of alcohol.

After he drove a couple Oil companies into the ground he bought a baseball team. Why? Who the fuck knows or cares? George doesn't even remember it. His Daddy and Granddaddy were so fucking rich it hardly mattered. Then he swore to "go straight" as a last ditch effort to avoid being taken out of the will.

Your hero. A rich, spoiled little fuckup who has broken or failed at everything he ever looked at. When he doesn't get his way he cheats and lies and fixes. I mean this fucking ingrate can barely even read. He's wall-eyed. You can't look him in the eyes. I dare you.

But you keep workin on them starry-eyed little pep talks of yours. Someday you might be a right handy little speechification specialist in the Jeb Bush White House.

You deserve it.

[ExposingCommunists]

03:32 PM on 08/21/2007

Is that all you got? With this logic, you surely didn't vote for Gore or Kerry did you?

[GarsLuber]

04:26 PM on 08/21/2007

how would you know what the soldiers are saying.

Do you have a special Chicken Hawk Phone?