Lincoln Chafee was a great Republican senator--a real hero to me amid all the right-wing crazies.

He'll be a great addition to Obama's team on the campaign trail, and hopefully encourage other moderate Republicans to see how favorably Obama compares with John ("100 Years of War") McCain.

My friend is a 35 year republican in Mass. He voted for Obama in the primary (he also vowed to never tell his Republican friends). They made him give him thumb print, and he said that they told him the police would run it.

This is why Obama will snatch Republican votes in BLUE STATES from John McCain in the Fall, and will likely win a hand full of RED STATES too.

Lincoln Chafee, Susan Eisenhower, and the list of Republicans (known and unknown - just keeps growing.

Obama seeks a workable majority to get legislation passed for America. Clinton seeks to replay the 1990s' exhaustive litany of scandal after scandal that plaugued the Clinton White House. This is why she is losing. You can't demonize Republicans for this and that during the 1990s, and then expect for some of that group to vote for you in the Fall.

This presidential race is Obama's to lose. He has the BLUE STATE credentials, and the RED STATE credibility to get it done.

Digging the bottom of the barrel for endorsement stories. LOL*

Lincoln Chaffee...if only he had been a Democrat.

Otherwise, all-around great guy!

Senate to vote on legislation that would cost U.S. $845 billion, also enables UN to implement gun bans
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama is pushing a bill that will lead to the implementation of a UN global tax, costing the U.S. at least $845 billion dollars over thirteen years in the name of fighting worldwide poverty, as well as banning "small arms and light weapons".

The "Global Poverty Act," which is sponsored by Obama, is up for a Senate vote today, and if passed would mandate the U.S. to spend 0.7 percent of the gross national product on foreign aid, on top of the money being sent out of the country already.

The bill passed the House by a voice vote last year because most members failed to read what was actually in it. The words "global" and "poverty" in the title were presumably enough to convince them that it must be good.

In reality, the bill also "Commits nations to banning "small arms and light weapons" and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child," writes Cliff Kincaid.

"Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the U.N.'s "Millennium Project," says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.'s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the "Millennium Development Goals," this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels."

A UN controlled global tax has long been ...(cont at link)

The operative word here is "former".

Didn't he lose the last election??

Chafee's endorsement is symbolically very significant, as he was the only Republican to vote against the war- while Hillary was one of the many Democrats who voted for it.
It is an apt reminder of how filthy the Dem party truly is- and of how important it is to clean it up.
(If it can be cleaned up.)
I see this as being as much about the terrible state of the Party itself, as about Obama. (Clearly Chafee is one of those who would rather see a true Democratic Party, and all praise to him.)

Linc, if you would have left the GOP while you were in the Senate you might still be there.

One has to wonder why didnt Chafee endorse Hillary or McCain since he has known them longer?

Anyways Lincoln Chafee was one of the good guys in the Senate.. I too was sad to see him leave.. Too bad he didnt switch to dem when he was asked a few years ago to save his seat.. It's nice to see a man of integrity..

I was almost sad to see Chafee go, he was more liberal than Hillary on foreign policy. He lambasted her in his book for not showing any leadership on Iraq, instead opting to blindly follow Bush's promises and obviously faulty intelligence. He was dead on. She is no leader, she is a political calculator, a manipulator, a follower.

This is yet another example of how Obama can bring this country together. I'm as cynical as they come, but I'm amazed by the coalition he has motivated and brought together. All Hillary can do is the exact opposite. This is a great explanation I found of the "Obama Effect" and the opposite "Hillary Effect":

http://thepersonalispolitical.tumblr.com/post/26284440

I knew he would . . . I just knew it.

Lincoln Chafee is the best . . . he was my senator . . . he was the only GOP who stood with Ted Kennedy and the 23 other senators to vote against the Iraq war . . . he has moral integrity and isn't afraid to stand alone . . . I was very sorry when he lost in 2006 . . . very happy he has left the Republican Party and I want him back in RI and national politics. . . he is a great man!