PA Governor Rendell: I'll "Bust A Hump" For An Obama Nominee

Time:

"I don't think any endorsement for President means jack," Ed Rendell will tell you. But if you spend a morning watching the popular governor of Pennsylvania work the phone for his favored candidate, Hillary Clinton, you quickly see why he is the exception to his own rule.

Even if Clinton wins the state's primary on April 22, her chances of taking the big prize are slim--as Rendell, for all his bluster, must surely understand better than most. Either way, Ed Rendell will go on. "I like Barack," he says. "If he's the nominee, we'll bust a hump for him."

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Comments

[VOTER]

It sounds to me like Ed is getting some flack for supporting Hillary from his PA voters and is now

attempting to placate them.

Hmmmm

[slow2]

Whatta guy, that Rendell. Wonder how many calls he's made to Richard Mellon Scaife to shore up Billary's campaign?

[FairyTale]

Please Ed, stay away. Really

[Gmoney1]

If it was not for the majority of the black voters in Philadelphia, Ed Rendell would not have won the governorship - he did a dispicable thing by going on tv and making the remark that there were whites in pennsylvania who would not vote for a black person - he did that because he wanted to tell the white voters in his state not to vote for a black person - there was no reason for him to make that statement other than to enforce a racial divide in his state -

[the964kid]

I'm glad he's not my governor. I will be donating money to what ever Dem runs against him in any future political campaign. We're tired of these old style political bosses, its time to clean house and sweep the Clinton/Rendells out of the party. You can't stop change.

[Countess]

Rendell represents the old time soprano type politics that people are disgusted with and he couldn't have picked a better candidate to reflect his views than Hillary Clinton and her gang of thieves.

[TN]

I was just thinking before I read your post, he looks like a mob boss.

[Teri]

if i were obama, i wouldn't want his help. he is an old time pol and it is time for him to go with the clinton's! america wants something NEW and different.

[NYC07]

Why do I feel that anyone who gets too close to a Clinton gets infected with the "Lying" disease?

[Grannysue]

Oh, ED your such a kidder! Go back on Faux news and tell them all how fair and balanced they are for continually bashing Obama! He's just trying to make certain he still can get a job after he leaves as Gov. don't worry Ed, Fox will be looking for a new talking head.

[Bobleblah1]

Yeah right.

[geg6]

Yeah, well...

As far as I'm concerned, the next time Fast Eddie comes calling for my support for whatever office he's running for next, I'll tell him I'll be happy to bust a hump for him after I spend a year supporting his opponent in the primary.

[SEQUOIABISON]

Finally something intelligent and uniting and realistic coming from the good governor.

I think Rendell came out early for Clinton because of their mutual strong commitment to Israel and he is nervous that Obama might be an honest broker between the Palestinians and the Israeli conflict.

Hillary has been one sided in that conflict and has always sided with Israel to the detriment of securing peace in the region. She has never tried to restrain the expansion of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land and broker a fair and just peace.

I think Obama will bring an evenhanded approach to the entire Middle East conflict, and remove a major obstacle for developing a lasting and just peace between Israel and Palestine.

Obama seems to understand the interconnection of all the conflicting elements in that region and how the difficulties between the Palestinians and the Israelis have inflamed the tempers and violence of all Nationalities in every area of the Middle East.

G. W. Bush has contributed to the escalation of the Middle East tension by continuously siding with the Israelis almost exclusively over the Palestinians.

Unfortunately Hillary also wholeheartedly made decisions and cast votes that lopsidedly favored and benefited the Israelis over the Palestinians, thus helping to perpetuate the conflict in the entire region.

I think Obama understands that America must be seen to be umpiring the conflict as an honest broker rather than a biased corrupt exploitative referee.

[markkraft]

Better start now,, Ed... it won't be long.

[atila]

is this kind of wink wink???...­..two weeks ago he said Obama wasn't ready and now..."if he is the nominee"..­....Ed is worry after the new polls ....

[ConcernedCtzn]

As a Pennsylvanian I'm very disappointed the Gov Rendell cast his vote and support for the Clinton machine so early on. Of course we all know why he did. He owed her something. Well he may owe her, but his constituency does not. I know I do not.

Obama 08!!!

[TheRealMacDaddy]

I just finished making 100 volunteer calls to Pennsylvania for Barack Obama, about half were to the Scranton area and 1/2 to the Levittown/Langhorne area.

Of all the calls I made only 6 people told me they were voting for Hillary. 70+ (and the majority of the Scranton contacts) said they were either strongly suppporting Obama or were leaning heavily towards him. Of the rest they said they had not yet made up their minds or I had to leave a message on their machines.

Moral of the story? Hillary isn't doing as well as people think in PA.

[TN]

Thank you for your service to our country.

[TotobiAyokoh23]

Gov, are you saying you are not white anymore? Because you have claimed Whites in PA will not vote for Obama. Or are you saying you are pink now. Yea, you look more pink than white to me.