Clinton, McCain, Obama Win Key Early State Endorsements

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain picked up key early state endorsements Saturday evening as the clock ticks down to the Iowa Caucuses on January 3, and the New Hampshire primary on January 8.

Read OffTheBus's endorsement coverage, including an interview with Clinton campaign spokesman, here.

The Des Moines Register, the leading newspaper in the Hawkeye State, gave its coveted endorsement to Clinton and McCain, citing their competence and readiness to lead.

Read the Register's entire endorsement of Clinton here.

Read the Register's entire endorsement of McCain here.

The Boston Globe, the largest newspaper in New England, endorsed Obama and McCain in the New Hampshire primary.

According to the Globe staff,

the board wrote that Obama, the Illinois Democrat, fulfills America's need for "a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world,'' and that McCain, the Arizona Republican, ''has done more than his share to transcend partisanship and promote an honest discussion of the problems facing the United States.

The Globe endorsements will be available Sunday on boston.com.

Comments

[leftbehind2000]

Edwards didn't get the nod in Des Moines. Here was the reason given today:

"We too seldom saw the positive optimistic campaign we found appealing in 2004. His harsh anti-corporate rhetoric would make it difficult to work with the business community to forge change."

Translation: "We are owned and controlled by big business. They are understandably nervous that Edwards' positions, deemed friendly to their interests in 2004, have strayed in this campaign to the side of the regular guy (the dumbfuck readers). Consequently, the corporate entities and rich dickheads that control us feared that a determined Edwards might, in fact, forge change."

[leftbehind2000]

Edwards didn't get the nod in Des Moines. Here was the reason given today:

"We too seldom saw the positive optimistic campaign we found appealing in 2004. His harsh anti-corporate rhetoric would make it difficult to work with the business community to forge change."

Translation: "We are owned and controlled by big business interests. They are understandably nervous that Edwards' positions, deemed friendly to their interests in 2004, have strayed in this campaign to the side of the regular guy (the dumbfuck readers). Consequently, the corporate interests that control us feared that a determined Edwards might, in fact, forge change."

[Tellmethetruth]

Obama and Edwards also refuse money from political action committees controlled by corporations and other interests, but they and every other presidential candidate accept money from employees of corporations and other interests that employ lobbyists. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, 14 of Obama's top 20 contributors employed lobbyists this year, spending a total of $16.2 million to influence the federal government in the first six months of 2007. Of Edwards's top 20 contributors, only seven have employed lobbyists this year, spending a total of $6.3 million. But the plaintiff attorneys who dominate the list of Edwards's top donors are well represented in Washington by the influential American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America), which has spent at least $3 million on lobbying this year alone. As for Clinton, all but four of her top 20 contributors have employed lobbyists this year.

http://www.capitaleye.org/inside.asp?ID=315

Candidates who do not take from lobbyiest: Joe Biden, Kucinich, Richardson

Vote for the Second Tier: AKA the Publically Financed Campaigns - www.joebiden.com

[Tellmethetruth]

Corporate Financed Campaigns: Obama, Clinton, McCain

Second Tier Public Financed Campaigns: Biden, Richardson, Dodd, Edwards, Kucinich

Choice is simple - who represents the publics interest?

[citizenofmars]

another crapo newspaper run lock stock and barrel by idiots...

[FourthOfJulyBaby]

Personally* I am begging the people of IOWA to consider what 8 years of a President who used/abused a variety of substances to cope with life has done for this country. I want a president this time who has not used Narcotics, Alcohol and Cigarettes as a crutch.

We need a President with the inner strength to find solutions to the mess Bush left us. Someone who will not fall back on substances to cope when the things get too tough.

*As a reference to my comments above I grew up with 2 siblings who turned to narcotics and alcohol to cope with life. They were often clean but when the smallest problem would occur they would be using again. It was Always "I have/had a tough life/childhood" excuse.

[Qbear]

These endorsements ae one day stories. YES, editorial boards have opinions,(like a$$holes, everybody has one.)
these endorsements don't come with a cash prize to bolster a broke campaign (McBush), or a team of advisors who don't shoot themselves in the arm, mainlining fear and smear, more than any heroin addict (Hillary.)

That would be a helluva catch phrase for both Obama and Edwards to use about the Clinton Machine..."MORE FEAR and SMEAR!"

[lindax]

The Boston Globe's endorsement of Obama reads like a book promotion of Obama's biography. It is amazing the eastern elite liberal could be this out of touch. They take someone's words as literal truth.

[eNewsReference]

In hindsight Bill Clinton might be saying Hillary Clinton should’ve never went to Iowa. The truth of the matter is there’s a chance that she might come in third in Iowa and she could’ve pulled third without even going. http://www.enewsreference.wordpress.com

[union79]

The endorsement reads like something straight off the
Clinton Campaign press ~ I hope the good people in Iowa see through this!!!
c

[Desiderata]

John Edwards Presidential Campaign got an unexpected boost today when he was endorsed by Desiderata on the Huffingtonpost late this evening.

With that endorsement, Desiderata declared Edwards to be the only credible choice to restore the United States Constitution, end the war in Iraq and on middle class Americans, grow healthcare for all and end the stranglehold of BigHMOs, BigPharma, BigCredit and BigCorps on the dying American Dream.

Edwards, Desiderata wrote, is the most ready, the most able and the most willing to end the Bad Deals of the last eight years and bring forth a 21st Century New Deal that will restore strength, prosperity and honest government to all Americans instead of just the privileged few.

[hazmaq]

After seeing the Fox/Luntz opinions of the last debate I believe Iowans are ready to make the changes necessary and will support Obama, despite the Registers choice. The Register and Politico, along with a few Iowa Dems are old school DLC people. As many have noted, this is now a war of the old versus the new.

On the Republican side it's simple - pick the one least likely to get us all nuked.

[MNmommy]

Nice to see a thread change and a photo that includes Senator Clinton.

She was correct, let the fun begin! The race is indeed on, not one of the great Democratic candidates deserves to have this handed to them. Good luck to them all and I'll be supporting whoever comes through the process.