Report: Lewis backing Obama?

CNN :

Is he or isn't he? The New York Times reported Thursday night that Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights movement veteran and Democratic congressional leader who endorsed Hillary Clinton's presidential bid last year, was switching his superdelegate vote to Barack Obama.

Within hours, according to the Washington Post, his spokeswoman Brenda Jones said the story -- and an earlier Associated Press report that the Georgia congressman was considering the move -- had been "observations, not statements of preference."

Read the whole story: CNN

Comments

[suntzu]

08:53 AM on 02/16/2008

The Times reporter sticks by his story that Lewis has switched his super vote to Obama, but next day Lewis denies it. Hmmmm. Did Lewis get a phone call from the Clintons overnight?

[TheScarletPimpernel]

08:56 PM on 02/15/2008

It seems all the black double crossers are coming out of the wood work.Obama and his gang are intimidating black super delegates with Republican like tactics.

Seems these folk are weak and fearful, they double cross Clinton to vote on RACE alone, and they have the hide to call Bill and Hillary Clinton racist..LMAO!!!

The Obama campagin and black leadership seems determined to isolates black americnas, and have them seen as an unreliable racsit ethnic voting bloc.

Clinton is going to try and build a coaliton of Hispanics ( the largest and fastest growing ethnic bloc in the country, whites and women )

She has realized that if she wins the nom black Americans will not support her and will stay home and pout.

Black americans will be left with no influence anywhere soon.
Oh they will all join Pat Buchannan in the GOP .

Their only hope is that the 90% of the voting age folk from 15% of the population is enough to win the Presidency...Bush must be taking and advising them on the whip count LMAO!!!

[MidSection]

05:17 PM on 02/15/2008

Obama is the REAL PHONY. You are all being gamed. He's planting women in the fronT who "pretend" fainting and Obama comes to the rescue. Such the good guy. Except he's done it at least three times in three different cities using the exact same words. It's actually caught on tape. HMM?.....IF IT LOOKS, TALKS AND ACTS LIKE A PHONY....WELL U KNOW.

Obama will lead the Dems off the cliff.

[Trollstakeyourmeds]

06:19 PM on 02/15/2008

The 6 o'clock news just said that Rep. Lewis has NOT, I repeat NOT removed his support from Senator Clinton. Then some minister from his district came on to say he is running for Rep. Lewis's seat for the upcoming election. (See my earlier post about the pressure and threats Cong. Lewis has withstood from the black community for not endorsing the black candidate). Go ahead, sir. Run. When the dust has settled, Rep. Lewis will stomp your bootie come election time.

[treadway123]

02:18 PM on 02/15/2008

Today, I heard Clinton say Ohio is not her Fire Wall state so if she lose's it----that's is ok. That Texas is now her Fire Wall State and she's putting her eggs inthat basket.I am not a Hillary hater.At one time I would have voted for her. Some one should tell her the record turn out in every state should prove to her the American people are screaming That they do count, and they will be heard. She keeps makeing these mistake's of dismissing state after state if she thinks she'd loseing it to soften the blow.She loses campayne people left and right. An when Bill says 140 million is a meger amount, and that they didn't have enough cash to spend like Obama did, It is a sad day for us all.

[clbrune]

03:47 PM on 02/15/2008

I didn't hear her say that.

[ChimpmasterDJ]

05:16 PM on 02/15/2008

Makes sense, though. It's Bush's state.

With her voting record, she might be able to pull it off there, if anywhere.

[denver]

01:32 PM on 02/15/2008

Jesse Jackson Jr is making Barack the black candidate at a time in the race when he cannot afford that.But I love it go ahead keep playing the race card Jesse!!!!!

[nihilon x]

02:09 PM on 02/15/2008

Jesse Jackson Jr. isn't running for president.

Stop with the nonsense.

[Trollstakeyourmeds]

06:22 PM on 02/15/2008

Neither is Bill Clinton, nihilon. But folks can't seem to stop talking about everything he has done and his "playing the race card". (By the way...I became a fan of yours today). People can't have it both ways. If Senator Clinton is held responsible for what her campaign says, Senator Obama should be, as well.

[MichaelO]

01:23 PM on 02/15/2008

Ahh, politics.

[Lostskeleton]

01:12 PM on 02/15/2008

Latest Texas poll from American Research Group

Obama 48%
Clinton 42%

So much for the Texas stand

[denver]

01:25 PM on 02/15/2008

Thats funny that is the only poll to show a Obama lead in Texas,The zogby and time/cnn poll show Clinton up by 26 points.you better check how that poll was taken.

[BrooklynLager]

12:33 PM on 02/15/2008

I seriously doubt Jesse Jackson Jr. did, or could say anything to sway John Lewis' vote. Jackson is a political lightweight, and John Lewis' district is as safe as they get.

This is total misdirection: John Lewis says some complimentary things about Barack Obama, and Taylor Marsh replies with some things Jesse Jackson has said which have nothing to do with anything.

Can Lewis consider his constituents votes, his impression of the two campaigns, his desire to head off an ugly floor vote, or whatever it is that he's factoring in without people screaming bloody murder?

[HaveaBud]

12:14 PM on 02/15/2008

All you I'm gonna vote for the Democrat or Republican candidate no matter what are a bunch of sheep. Its us Independents that make these candidates sweat like pigs.

[mcfried]

01:19 PM on 02/15/2008

Sheep … No believe me Obama is my man for a large number of reasons but if it unfortunately comes to having to vote between McCain and Clinton, I will have to pick Clinton, despite my serious misgivings about her candidacy. I can not in all good conscience allow a man, like McCain, become president . I used to respect him but his recent kissing up to bush, the war, FISA and yesterday selling out his principals (allowing torture) to get a bunch of lunatics who want to impose their religious ideology on the entire population to support him is sickening. All I’m suggesting is that when we have these discussions we don’t resort to name calling, hate mongering and the like to get our point across, because at the end of the day out, of the 3 candidates, 1 is great, 1 is beyond contempt at this point and 1 doesn’t suck horribly

[denver]

12:01 PM on 02/15/2008

Maybe Ted Kennedy and John Kerry should pull their support of Obama and Support Hillary since the majority of the people in their state chose Hillary.And that race was not close with 1% or a 1/2% like some.She won Mass with a clear majority.

[williamg]

12:28 PM on 02/15/2008

Hillary Clinton - President of New York and California.

[denver]

01:46 PM on 02/15/2008

Hillary for president foen forget New Mexico,Arizona,New Jersey,Oklahoma,Tennesse,Florida,Michigan,New Hampshire,Nevada and soon to be Texas,Ohio,Penn

Obama president of Alabama,GA,CO,IA,SC,WA,ND,MI,CT,MN.
P.S I live in Colorado and their is no way either democrat can win this state in the general their are way to many republicans and its the home of James Dobson and a whole bunch of religious right people....Colorado has a dem gov.But we have for the last three decades execpt for one republican,but the state always goes red.The only dem to win here in the general was Bill Clinton so chew on that Obomits

[TotobiAyokoh23]

11:59 AM on 02/15/2008

Hillary's campaign appeals to the primary libidinal impulses of "fear and be afraid." Obama's campaign appeals to the internalized moral conscience of hope and endless possibilities within the American psychic-polity. The choice is yours.

[ornery]

12:17 PM on 02/15/2008

That great speech Obama gave Tuesday night proves your point.

Hill's "experience" and "results" rhetoric is beginning to morph slowly into something more like "we haven't been attacked since 2001".

Watch for the fear factor in her rhetoric to become more subtly racial--Obama is a mere "boy", for example.

Of course, she and Bill know how easily that can backfire on them.

[clbrune]

04:05 PM on 02/15/2008

Riiiiiiiiiight.

Nice that Obama backers are walking the walk. You know, uniting with others and stuff. Instead of obnoxiously stating that those who disagree are motivated by "impulses of fear" and are apparently without moral conscience.

Way to go. Smacks of all the grossly intolerant Evangelicals who claim Jesus loves them and them alone.

[denver]

11:52 AM on 02/15/2008

These so called super delagates should just keep quiet.I think after March 4th they can coms out of the wood works and say who they are supporting one way or the other,maybe even after Penn in April,These are big states with major democratic demographics.The race will be much clearer after they have their say.We all know they can change their voted anytime so dont say you are supporting one candidate and then reun back to the ship with your tail between your legs if the vote and outcome should change dramaticly one way or the other.

[williamg]

12:29 PM on 02/15/2008

Without superdelegates, Obama has a 140 point lead. This is what she depends on.

[hank48188]

06:38 PM on 02/15/2008

The Convention in Denver is a long time away, anything can happen.

[Lostskeleton]

11:27 AM on 02/15/2008

I'nm sick of this back and forth among Democrats. I just hope one of them ( I prefer Obama but if its Hilldog so be it) wins this damn thing, because this is tearing this party apart. I am seriously considering becoming an independent and leaving this party.

[mcfried]

11:52 AM on 02/15/2008

Amen! - honestly given the level of nastiness I half expect that some of these posters are Republican instigators. Maybe they are trying to distract us from the serious issues of the last couple of days - you know McCain’s vote to allow water boarding to buy off the conservatives and FISA. I like to believe we are better than this but who knows I may be wrong (how incredibly sad) I also support Obama - but if it's Hilary she gets my vote - tearing down either of these candidates over issues that are unbelievably trivial in comparison is beyond counterproductive it makes us all look petty and pathetic

[AnninCA]

11:25 AM on 02/15/2008

And Obama spent 4 times as much as Clinton to buy superdelegates. Yuck.

[williamg]

12:30 PM on 02/15/2008

How much did Hillary spend to trash Bill's rape victims?

[denver]

01:28 PM on 02/15/2008

Your a sick sick person,Obamit backers are the most hateful demented people.Too bas your backing another Jimmy Carter,and if elected will go down so fast and get eaten up wuicker than his rise to superstardom!!!

[AnninCA]

11:19 AM on 02/15/2008

The scoop today is that Jesse Jackson Jr. is now strong-arming Lewis and others with the race card.

Yuck.

[ProgressiveNotLiberal]

11:29 AM on 02/15/2008

While Hillary plays the gender card and strong-arms any female not voting for or endorsing her.
YUCK!

[AnninCA]

11:36 AM on 02/15/2008

I haven't seen any report of that at all. However, I did see the report on Jesse Jackson Jr.'s tactics, and it's flat-out racist. I definitely saw the financial report on Obama's efforts to buy super-delegates over the past 3 years while pretending he didn't really have a PAC to people.

So now, where is this so-called gender card being played?

[Bulbul]

11:45 AM on 02/15/2008

She did not

[denver]

11:56 AM on 02/15/2008

They better stop I mean the Black elected officials with their strong arming to support Obama just because he is black.This wont play well with the whites or hispanics in the upcoming primaries in the big three states.Yes they have an african american demographic that will vote but it is not the majority like some of the southern states and that might make people cast there vote for Hillary if they think Obamas camp is pulling the race card and pulling threats to get their backing

[Independent007]

12:54 PM on 02/15/2008

Are you kidding me, most of the black leaders of this country support Hillary, Charlie Rangel, Maxine Waters, Mfume, on and on.

They are in her corner because she locked them up early when no one thought Obama had a chance.

So I don't see this flood of black leaders except maybe Jesse Jackson and one or two others that are backing Obama. Race card is essentially a non issue as far as Obama is concerned.