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Black Lawmakers Rethink Clinton Support

DAVID ESPO | February 14, 2008 11:13 PM EST | AP

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama is expected to be endorsed Friday by the Service Employees International Union, one of the nation's most powerful, union officials have told The Associated Press.

The sought-after endorsement would be Obama's largest from organized labor, and give him a powerful boost against rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the March 4 presidential primaries in Ohio and Texas.

The 1.8 million-member union is likely to endorse Obama on Friday, the union officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

SEIU backing is one of the most important labor endorsements available. The organization has donated more than $25 million, mostly to Democratic candidates, since 1989. In addition, the union has a powerful get-out-the-vote structure and has been courted by all the Democratic candidates since the beginning of the race.

SEIU has delayed an endorsement since September, when it had Obama, Clinton and other Democratic candidates speak to its members in Washington. It eventually narrowed the field to Obama, Clinton and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, but could not make a decision.

The union allowed its state affiliates to make endorsements, and many backed Edwards.

Edwards dropped out of the race just before the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses on Feb. 5, leaving the field to Obama and Clinton.

Union leaders decided after a conference call Thursday night to go with Obama.

The officials who spoke anonymously cautioned that the union was still voting, but Obama was "99 percent" likely to get the endorsement, one of the insiders said.

The union had announced earlier Thursday that "President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will discuss a major political announcement with reporters" on Friday.

Separately Thursday, Obama also won the backing of the United Food and Commercial Workers, a politically active union with significant membership in the upcoming Democratic battlegrounds.

The 1.3-million member UFCW has 69,000 members in Ohio and another 26,000 in Texas.The food workers also have 19,000 members in Wisconsin, which holds a primary Tuesday.

The union is made up of supermarket workers and meatpackers, with 40 percent of the membership under 30 years old. Obama has been doing especially well among young voters.

With an SEIU endorsement and the United Food and Commercial Workers' backing, Obama would only need to pick up one more union endorsement to be eligible to collect the Change to Win labor federation's support. There are seven unions in the federation, and it would take endorsements from at least four of them to make the federation consider a joint endorsement.

Obama was endorsed in January by UNITE HERE, which along with SEIU and the United Food and Commercial Workers, would give him three of the seven member unions. The Teamsters, the Laborers' International Union of North America, and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America have yet to endorse a candidate.

The seventh union, the United Farm Workers, endorsed Clinton in January.

Obama also was endorsed earlier this month by the Transport Workers Union and the National Weather Service Employees Organization.

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Associated Press writer Nedra Pickler in Milwaukee contributed to this report.

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'Judge me by the content of my character, not the color of my skin."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The fact that 80-90% African American voters have been voting for Senator Barack Obama proves me right on my herd mentality analysis of Black Americans.

They think like cattle.
They will flock to the greener pastures.

Most of them are voting for Barack Obama, because he is black like them.

They are also voting out of inferiority complex, because full Blacks feel excited when they see a half-black and half-white brother or sister.
That is why they relax their hair and bleach or tone their dark skin to look fair to resemble bi-racial African Americans.
I know the Freudian Complex haunting the Black Americans.
Suddenly, they have seen their "Black Hope" for the White House in Barack Obama.
"This is our chance".

What a shame!

For the so called White voters voting for Barack Obama, God knows they are casting protest votes and voting more out of malice for the Clintons than rationale.
Barack Obama even noted this when he said that it has been hard for Hillary Clinton, because she began her presidential campaign with 47% of Americans hating her.
And among these haters are millions who claim to be "Christians", but have been spitting venom of hatred against a woman they have never met or known in person, but simply brewing and spewing hatred against her.
Casting stones at her like the Jews Jesus Christ rebuked.

These hypocrites, should know that for every hate comment and hate vote they cast against Hillary Clinton, their own fate would be worse in the end.

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
~ Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:07 PM on 02/16/2008

If Hillary is in front of super delegates, perhaps she will explain to them why it is she felt it her moral and America duty to NOT hold Bush and friends accountable for spying on innocent Americans.

Perhaps she can explain to the Democratic Party and other why it is she did not vote against the FISA bill as she promised she would.

Then may be she would let them know that she can not and will not make any hard decisions if she is president. She can let them know that she is Bush with some social programs for children that will never pass the Republican held Congress-when she is president.

The next step for Hillary will be to pick up the phone and call Obama.

She needs to ask Obama what it took to cast his vote. He will tell her that at the end of the day leaders are expected to do the right thing-always. And he will tell her that it is not that tough-especially when you have NOT made deals with the devil.

Hillary dodge her duty to the nation and her party to stop Bush's tyrannical presidency. The vote was not even political problematic for her. She would have been given kudos for doing the right thing.

Why did she dodge the vote? Because she has made may deals with many devils. Because she has promised Bush that she will do nothing to hold him accountable-not now and not when she is 'president'. The pardons for criminals will continue, she will protect Bush-always. That is a promise she will keep.

All Americans, which would include votes, delegates, so called super delegates need to vote Obama. Its the right thing to do.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:25 AM on 02/15/2008

What's with this popular vote standard the Clintons are pushing, this popular vote thing. Why are we now having a new standard for winning the nomination, Popular vote and pledged delegates. The democratic party set the standard, the pledged delegates is what matters, now the Clintons are introducing a new dynamic, the popular vote and all the news media is buying into it. Lanny Davis is on TV twice a day pushing this idea and the Clinton agenda even though he claims not to be a member of Hillary's campaign, why and who is putting this Lanny Davis on TV. Now here is Lanny Davis spouting the fact that Hillary won the big states, why has any journalist called him on this, "Mr Lanny Davis, when was the last time the Democrats lost NY and California", then sit back and listen for his answer.

The only thing to consider is who will promote the advancement of the Democratic party and who has the majority of Pledged Delegates.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:46 AM on 02/15/2008

Super Delegates should go with who wins the state not popular vote and you need to include Michigan and Florida. Obama complaining about super delegates not going his way is hypocriticle in that Obama's has won every election on technicalities.

Obama has never ran against an opponent except Allen Keys. Obama has won every election because of scandals or on technicalities, (his
opponent"s being disqualified, leaving him the only choice on the
ballot)..

Or Obama"s opponent"s confidently psychiatric medical records being released to the public..

Or like Blair Hull who was falsely charged (by rumor spread by the Obama team) that he threaten to kill his wife during an argument,
after he was arrested for battery years earlier, although charges were
never filed. Nevertheless, the damage to Hull"s campaign was done..

And then there was Jack Ryan who crashed and burned and was forced to drop out because of a major sex scandal that surfaced after he won the primary election.

Not once or twice, but every one of the 5 elections Obama has won
stinks. Obama is part of the corrupt Chicago Daly political machine.
Obama sure does not believe in democracy, like counting the votes and
he will do anything to win.
http://tinyurl.com/3byskk
http://maroon.uchicago.edu/online_edition/viewpoints/2006/11/14/remember-blair-hull%20barack-obama-does
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2007/04/david_axelrod_o.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:47 AM on 02/15/2008

Obama has never ran against an opponent except Allen Keys. Obama has won every election because of scandals or on technicalities, (his

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Your blog reflects your ignorance, Obama neither had the standing or the money to oppose the machine candidate in the primary for the senate race. Anyone saying that Alan Keyes was
his toughest opponent is an idiot, the primary election where Obama took down the better known , more financed and machine candidate is where the election was, so shut up and stop using talking points Jim.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:13 AM on 02/15/2008

JORDAN, VERNON E JR
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
LAZARD, FRERES & COMPANY/SENIOR MAN Barack Obama (D)
Senate - IL
OBAMA 2010 INC - $2,000
primary 07/07/06

JORDAN, VERNON
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
LAZARD FRERES & COMPANY Barack Obama (D)
Senate - IL
OBAMA FOR ILLINOIS INC Won $2,000
primary 10/23/03

But by September 2003, ... still largely unknown in Washington circles, but that changed the following month when Vernon Jordan, the well-known power broker and corporate boardmember who chaired Bill Clinton"s presidential transition team after the 1992 election, placed calls to roughly twenty of his friends and invited them to a fund-raiser at his home.

That event marked his entry into a well-established Washington ritual"the gauntlet of fund-raising parties and meet-and-greets through which potential stars are vetted by fixers, donors, and lobbyists.
.
Other fund-raisers were soon organized"one at the Four Seasons Hotel, another at a Dupont Circle restaurant, yet another at the Clintons" home off Embassy Row.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/11/0081275

Because Obama was running against Blair Hull in the primary and then Jack Ryan in the general (both multi-millionaires), Obama could, and did, receive especially large donations from individuals, to so-called "millionaires exception."

news was leaked to media outlets that both Hull and Ryan had personal scandals associated with them. The release of this news devastated both of their campaigns, leading to an easy run to victory for Obama in the primary and then in the general election. The New York Times Magazine revealed that David Axelrod, Obama's chief political and media adviser, may well have been behind the leak of the story that doomed the Hull candidacy

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01axelrod.t.html?ex=1177905600&en=765f1fc42884f6d3&ei=5070

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:35 AM on 02/15/2008

Obama was the insurgent candidate in the Democratic primary for Senate in Illinois and NOT backed by Mayor Daley...surprise! He didn't get Daley's endorsement (BTW, get the spelling right, out-of-stater) until he won the primary. And with regard to the rest of the falsehoods you're presenting, please turn in your tin foil hat before you go out today. It makes you look like a fool.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:18 AM on 02/15/2008

Hillary Clinton's two opponents in 2000 self-destructed. All she had to do was not fuck up.

Frankly this is the first competitive campaign either of them has run as far as I can see.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:56 PM on 02/15/2008

Does Hillary really mean....

They're not that important to me?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:05 AM on 02/15/2008

Turn coats with no integrity, I'm a black women supporting Obama before you accuse me of being racist. What kind of person gives an endorsement then runs to the other candidate because they are winning. They had a choice to endorse neither candidate which would have been the better thing to do. But look at these people -- old establishment playing the old game of politics and looking after their owe asses.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:58 AM on 02/15/2008

Seems like an easy call to me.
Either we have more of the same or we look to the future.
Hopefully our new/energized Democratic voters will return our Party to it's loyalty to the American working class.
I am embarassed by the comments about 'trailer trash' etc. by supposed Democrats here on huffpo.

Take back OUR Party.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:40 AM on 02/15/2008

(Seattlelite)
Great comment.
I agree with you completely.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:49 PM on 02/15/2008
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I've been told by the Clintonians that Caucuses do not count. Only Primaries count.

I think the plan is to execute all the delegates allocated in caucuses as they get off the plane in Denver.

And there will be that many more balloons for the delegates allocated in primaries.

I have been looking over the convention rules, but I can't find this. Anybody want to explain this one?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:14 AM on 02/15/2008
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This post is pretty nasty keven7, why are you so hateful in the middle of the night?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:05 AM on 02/15/2008

Gsikev, you take too many things at face value, you're either accustomed to debating fool or you yourself are a fool, I will leave you to decide which.

If black people were racist, they would have promoted Obama's candidacy, they didn't, whites did and they then joined the choras.

If black people were racist, they would have supported other black presidential candidates regardless of his chances at the nomination. That is what racist do.

If black people were racist, their leader would not have signed onto Hillary and attempt to knee-cap Sen. Obama. When was the last time you saw white racist support such a strategy, maybe you could sight me an example.

Women are migrating to Hillary because she's a woman, regardless of her baggage. Black are migrating to Obama, because Bill Clinton used his 'By any means necessary' racist slant and alienated them from Hillary campaign. In this you could call them follower and not racist in that they have migrated to Obama, because the rest of the country has.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:38 AM on 02/15/2008
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IS YOU OR IS YOU AIN'T MY CONSTITUENCY?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:09 AM on 02/15/2008

So did Sophie Masloff of Pennsylvania and Nancy Larson of Minnesota, and they are white.

Where is the headline that states, "White Lawmakers Rethink Clinton Support"?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:29 AM on 02/15/2008

There will be loads of stories like this.

No big deal.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:09 AM on 02/15/2008

Will there be loads of stories like her FISA vote dodge, where yet again she did the WRONG thing and continues to support and protect Bush's tyrannical presidency?

Calling ALL Hillary supporters/apologists!
Can any of you or will any of you explain/rationalize Hillary's non vote/dodge on the FISA bill. Give it your best shot.
I know why she did not vote on it, even though at the time she was begging people to TRUST her.
I would like to hear from all of you regarding the recent actions of YOUR candidate.
For those of you unfamiliar with the FISA bill and why it was so very important to this nation, our civil liberties and holding the tyrannical Bush accountable for criminal misconduct-get yourself EDUCATED.
As we all know Obama did the right thing, voted against it-as all good American Senators should have voted.
Give your best shot Hillary supporters-explain away.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:00 AM on 02/15/2008

When whites do anything newsworthy, no one ever thinks to put "white" in front of their actions.

Its a systematic racism that implies that whites are the defacto status quo while all other American citizens are the "other" but maybe that will eventually change when whites become the minority in America.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:02 AM on 02/15/2008

I agree with your comment.
(nihilon_x)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:52 PM on 02/15/2008
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Interesting about Nancy - she's uncommitted, always has been an remains uncommitted. Listen and see for yourself:

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegates-who-havent-endorsed.html
http://www.startribune.com/podcasts/15506062.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:57 AM on 02/15/2008

That's coming!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:21 AM on 02/15/2008

An obvious change because this campaign for president has increasingly become a vote purely on race for the black community.

On the other hand , even though I am a Hillary supporter, I am proud to see whites are not nearly as racist as shown by the wide support Obama has from the white community.

Question: is the black community becoming more racist than the white community. The voting pattern reflects this? If so its sad because the whites are finally becoming color blind while the African Americans are discriminating on color more and more.

Will this circle ever end? There was a time in my life I thought it would but not so sure anymore.


I hold these truths self evident !

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:18 AM on 02/15/2008

I don't think you can call black support for Obama racist. If you were of black heritage and there had never been a black President of your country, and then an outstanding black candidate presented himself, wouldn't you enthusiastically support that black candidate?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:08 AM on 02/15/2008

Gsikev,
I am a Black women who started out supporting Richardson. I believed he had the track record and experience to be the best democratic nominee. I switched to Obama when Richardson dropped out because I thought he was the second best. My vote for Obama had nothing to do with his ethnicity. However, its quite evident that women are voting for HRC because of her gender what kind of ism is that?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:17 AM on 02/15/2008

I'm black and I started out supporting Kucinich and then Richardson.

I think what it comes down to is that Obama is the best of the remaining candidates, and as the polls are showing, its not just black people who realize this.

Ironically enough, people are trying to cast black people as racist for supporting a black candidate, when since the very inception of this nation, we have supported white candidates by default to the point where it has become so expected that some are threatened when black people show any independence.

Its funny -- they claim that you aren't on a "plantation", but then when you decide to invest in your own property to get away from said plantation(s), you are suddenly wrong for doing so.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:06 AM on 02/15/2008

I wondered from day 1 if the AA community was prepared for this race.

I think they found the solution.

Just vote for the AA guy. LOL*

Seriously, it works. I want to win, but not at the expense of a stupid race war.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:52 AM on 02/15/2008

You're just being ridiculous now.

When you support Hillary, you claim that it is because of gender AND her policies.

Yet when blacks support Obama, you claim its "all about race".

So which are you -- a hypocrite or a racist?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:19 AM on 02/15/2008

You are a big cry baby. Black voters have been voting for white candidates for years. Remember when you loyal white democrats left Bill and Hillary Clinton out there to hang. The black caucus came to there rescue. If the black caucus did not stand up for Bill Clinton he would have resigned. You need to just check your own heart before you check others. Speak for yourself.

Bill and Hillary Clinton owe a lot of respect for black voter and congress persons.

So if you do not know what your talking about just shut up!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:51 AM on 02/15/2008
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I have friends who are only supporting Obama because he's black. They are so excited to see a black person rise so far and have a real shot at the Presidency. They just glow all over when they talk about it. I keep thinking if the roles were reversed, I might feel the same way. I'm not going to criticize them for their feelings. They're good people, not racist in any way - just proud that one of their own is making good.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:28 AM on 02/15/2008

All about race.

I think we can expect this to happen at this stage.

The politics of race is a shame.

But....so it goes.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:57 PM on 02/14/2008

Race has little or nothing to do with it. Barack Obama happens to be a black man who is an inspiring leader. Hillary Clinton happens to be the white wife of a popular ex-President. She also happens to have voted to give George W. Bush power to declare preemptive war on Iraq, a major stupid, bloody, and expensive f*cking mistake for which she has yet to apologize. She recently voted to give Bush and his neocon crowd the authority to go after the Iran and its Republican Guard (please see the Kyl-Joe Lieberman bill). She is basically a calculating, triangulating politician who has sold her soul to the fear-mongers (she's afraid to seen as "soft on terrorism") so that she can claim she is as strong on "national security" as any reactionary Republican, like John McCain.

Mind you, if she is nominated by the Democratic Party, I will vote for her (the Supreme Court is too important) even though I will have to hold my nose.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:52 AM on 02/15/2008
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Perhaps they want to go with the candidate who they think will do the best for their union.

Maybe they just want to be on the winning side and think Obama is the one who will win the nomination.

The headline is totally wrong for this article. It has nothing to do with Black lawmakers and everything to do with unions. That's a shame.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:54 AM on 02/15/2008

Racism exists in America because of whom?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:25 AM on 02/15/2008

Candidate: Are you now, or have you ever been, a real estate agent?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:48 PM on 02/14/2008
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Always good to pop the bubble and see what info is not just on HuffPo but out where the typical web user may be. Here are the top four AP headlines on Yahoo Politics at this minute:

Ex-GOP candidate Romney endorses McCain

Black lawmakers rethink Clinton support

SEIU expected to endorse Obama

Clinton wins N.M. caucus vote

Obama's crowds are awesome for so early

No disconnect, very nice to see.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:43 PM on 02/14/2008
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Whoops, make that top 5!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:44 PM on 02/14/2008

Isn't this the most schizophrenic year ever?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:53 AM on 02/15/2008

This is for you Annin:

Calling ALL Hillary supporters/apologists!

Can any of you or will any of you explain/rationalize Hillary's non vote/dodge on the FISA bill. Give it your best shot.

I know why she did not vote on it, even though at the time she was begging people to TRUST her.

I would like to hear from all of you regarding the recent actions of YOUR candidate.

For those of you unfamiliar with the FISA bill and why it was so very important to this nation, our civil liberties and holding the tyrannical Bush accountable for criminal misconduct-get yourself EDUCATED.

As we all know Obama did the right thing, voted against it-as all good American Senators should have voted.

Give your best shot Hillary supporters-explain away.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:56 AM on 02/15/2008

BARRACKISM: MEDIA'S ANOINTED MESSIAH (PART11)

Indeed, Mr. Obama is an iconic symbol of our desperation for change. My question becomes, "Is this all we want from a leader?" Do we only need an icon to idolize and follow as his oratorical rolls to a drumbeat of emotion? He speaks as if our whole system has suffered an absolute catastrophe. His tiny details speak of the future without any regard to past failures and successes. Have we forgotten that great leaders always learn from the past? We pick up the good things in life and learn from our failures. Going forward requires genuine introspection and reassessment and evaluation of our experiences. Going forward requires armoring oneself with the triumphs and tragedies of history. The past guides us to the future. The mere exaltation of change delivers nothing-just word.

There are many good things that our government has delivered. To exclaim that Washington has been an agent of total failure is a statement taken out of a fairy tale. Mr. Obama, how dare you condemn the establishment that you have been actively a part of? How are you different from anyone in Congress? How much have you done to serve as a real catalyst for change in the four years that you have been a Senator? Experience matters, Mr. Obama.

I must caution those who have ignored using wisdom over emotion in this great political process that we are electing a leader of a great nation and not a leader who has calculatingly mustered the appeal of thunderously screaming change and hope but with little details and experiences to back up his wild cries. We need someone who embodies not just the frenzy trend of the moment but someone who has repeatedly and brazenly articulated her scope of knowledge and experience of national and international affairs, mastery of managing and dealing with the political bureaucracy that is Washington DC, and a proven track of experience in delivering change through proactive engagement in solving REAL problems and bringing people together in creating and implementing solutions in their communities.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:37 PM on 02/14/2008
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Your posts raise a big question, are you off your Prozac?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:50 PM on 02/14/2008
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