Paul Kirk, Ex-DNC Chair And Superdelegate, To Endorse Obama

ABC's the note says Obama will roll out the endorsement of another DNC ex-chair today.

Speaking of math -- the Obama campaign rolls out another former DNC chairman's endorsement on Friday: Paul Kirk, a superdelegate who led the party from 1985-1989, is coming out for Obama -- a day after Andrew's switch, an Obama campaign official tells The Note. (And don't count on that being it for the day, as the dribble continues.)

If Clinton, D-N.Y., can make this is a race yet, we're about to find out just how patient Democrats can be with a race that's showing signs of shredding the party. Notwithstanding moves by Andrew, Kirk, and the like, Clinton needs superdelegates to wait for her case to play out -- and then she needs an utter and total rejection of the Democratic frontrunner.

Yesterday Joe Andrew, former DNC Chair under Bill Clinton, withdrew his support from Sen Clinton and endorsed Obama. Read why Joe decided to switch to an Obama endorsement.

Political Wire notes that Obama after the last two days, Obama has pulled ahead in endorsements from former DNC chairs:

For those keeping score, The Hotline notes that of the 11 living Democratic National Committee chairs between 1981 and 2005, six have endorsed Sen. Barack Obama and four have backed Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Only former Colorado Gov. Gov. Roy Romer has remained neutral.

Read HuffPost's OffTheBus Superdelegate Investigation.

Comments

[Lisette]

This whole thing is a joke

THE RACE IS OVER

OBAMA WON

HILLARY LOST

Why are we still playing this stupid game

[eej]

1. Money. Hillary is in debt and she will get no more contributions after she drops out.

2. McCain. Hillary is working for him. Who knows what he promised her.

[mystic]

#5 should read; "Bill still owes $560,000"

[wmholt]

Since Bill and Hillary have owned the Democratic machine in the last 15 years or so, is it true that Hillary started the primary season with a boat-load of superdelegates, and they are drifting away from Hillary, or was there just a large pool of undecided superdelegates that are now picking sides?

Thanks!

[ChiGuy]

I don't know how many supers each candidate started with, but I honestly cannot remember hearing of ANY that have left Obama for Hillary.
I could be wrong, but I haven't seen it happen.

[ruffmama]

INDIANANS NEED TO SEE THIS NOW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

[shockjock]

forward/email this to every news organization in Indiana

[shockjock]

Here are links to every Newspaper in Indiana:

http://newslink.org/innews.html

I'll come back with Radio and TV links

Start forwarding everyone!

[atowngirl]

Send this to the DNC and Indiana News papers. I bet they will not touch this!!!!

Hillary told another Bold Faced Lie stating Bush (don't care about him) had sent the jobs of an Indiana plant to China and it was Bill that sent the jobs and technology far away in 1995. Are you listening DNC Indiana? We are Even Playing field that is all we ask.

Her Campaign adviser Calling names WOW! No one at the top has anything to say, THAT IS TRULY GUILT BY ASSOCIATION.

Smart People are Watching.

Why isn't the world upset with this?

Since the topic is who you associate with (Rev. Wright) what about this guy Hillary adviser?
Pass this on and see if the Blue Collar (Archie Bunker media speaks to this. This is insane!!1

A Hillary campaign adviser called the people of Indiana "sh*t" and "worthless, white n*ggers".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

[Wheatstraw]

Well I thought I made a mistake by posting this video this morning.

Then I found the whole 9min section of it
It is not a doctored video...

Indiana are "white N**g...you get the point
Here is the whole thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_wKOgMNs0U&feature=related

[kylie]

Let's see how really biased and agenda-ridden the networks are!

Any bets to see if this "slice of life" gets any coverage at all?

We've had a month of 24/7 coverage of Wright(a real non-political issue).

I wonder what the majority of Indianans think of this, or if they'll ever get to hear it.

It shows real contempt from the Clinton's and their campaign people for lots of people in Indiana.

[globality]

Hey,

One of the guys in the video campaigning for Bill Clinton kind of looks like the moderator ABC news used in the debate

[going2ireland]

If Obama had not become the front runner in the Demo primaries, and instead it was Edwards, can you IMAGINE what Hillary would have done to him? She would have been no less "kind" than she has been to Obama.

If all you Clinton supporters think this is about Obama - it is not - it is about Hillary and her "kill or be killed" mentality in running her campaign.

[MizKit]

Hear, hear, Going2Ireland! You are so right.

[JADE2002]

GREAT POINT going2ireland!!!!!

[Jaradan]

Yep, it's not personal against Obama. Although her surrogates­/followers seem to think so. This shows that no matter who is her "opponent", Hillary goes for the jugular. She reminds me of my pit bull that I had as a child. He goes for the kill with other dogs, no matter if it's friend or foe. Hillary's goal isn't to make America better. It's to get power and make money. Anyone who thinks otherwise is drowning in her Kool-Aid.

[Micaanab]

I think the superdelegates should wait until after NC and Indiana. If they all come out before these two primaries, Obama voters may decide to sit at home on election day figuring it's a done deal. Clinton supporters will come out in full force to prove a point. It might make these two primaries look like a landslide for Clinton and could further her argument she is more electable.

[abby4ever]

Sit home, or even vote Hillary---as a protest to the superdelegates telling them how to vote Not that they are, but some voters might see it that way.

[Jaradan]

No, Obama voters won't sit at home. They know this is too important of an election because they can see Hillary trying to STEAL the nom away from him. I love primary days where more than one state is voting. It shows that her here and there wins are nothing in the grand scheme of things. Just like Super Tuesday.

Throughout this whole race, Hillary has NEVER led Obama in pledged delegates. That's why she keeps harping about popular vote. But Obama has most popular vote, too. And he's about to have more superdelegates. So what's left then? Whichever candidate has the biggest head? The most personalities? The loudest, most shrill voice? Because those are contests she would win hands down.

[mystic]

Would someone PLEASE suggest to the MSM the most important question to ask Hillary :
"Will you pardon President Bush if you're elected president? (We all know that's a rhetoric question)

[Sneakerface]

you know, I was thinking a while back that when our Democratic nominee takes office, pardoning Bush might be a good political way of acknowledging and emphasizing that Bush did indeed break the law - why a pardon unless he did something wrong, the reasoning goes, and he certainly did. We need some major way of letting the world know that this type of criminal behavior is unacceptable, since the Congress thus far has refused to impeach him. But at this point, Bush's crimes are so stunningly malevolent that he and his administration MUST be held accountable. 'Let it go, there's less than a year before he leaves office' is no way to deal with this, because there will be no deterrent for future Presidents to wipe their butts with the Constitution, as this bastard has.

[TodStewart]

Hillary is Hydra!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

[suzyku]

For heavens sake people, WAKE UP! Hillary is deceitful, manipulative, negative and will do and say anything to help her cause! She is BAD for this country. I sincerely hope the people of Indiana see through her phoniness. I'm beginning to think that after 8 of the worst years this country has ever experienced under the worst administration possible, this country apparently hasn't learned anything! The fell for the right wing, karl rove spewing lies before, twice! and now people are doing it again! What on earth is wrong here?!

[patch61]

what do you think obama your starting a campigan thats going to make you win like getting people to stop sen. hillaray clinton you knew it would come to this noone is going to run on your side we are going to fight for sen. hillary clinton to have her to be the next president of the united states. stop this president bush make sen. hillary clinton our president.

[TheNuff]

what?

[wm1066]

Wow, I second that. what the hell is 'patch' raving about?

[MrKINOKO]

Another undecipherable, pointless rant by an HRC fan. Amazing in it's consistency...the illterate content, the childishness, the sheer lack of grammatical and syntax skill. Please HRC, I implore you...start handing out dictionaries at your cross bur...ooopppsss! I mean "rallies", especially now that they are all outdoors because no one will rent you a hall unless you pay in advance. Bad credit will do that to you. Please Hillary...teach your minions some English...maybe just enough so I can occassionally understand what they are ranting about. It was certainly easy enough for me to understand the racial comments coming out of your advisors mouth in the new Youtube video, so why can't you teach some of your fans to speak some English too?

[AdLib]

And can you believe that rumor that Hillary is getting the uneducated rural voters?

[Sneakerface]

Can anyone translate this ?

[Nancyann]

DO NOT FORGET !!!! remember all the unsavory acts she pulled the last time she lived in the White House...
REMEMBER WHITE WATER, FILEGATE, TRAVELGATE, STEALING VINCE FOSTER'S PAPERS BEFORE SHE LET THE POLCE INTO HIS OFFICE, HIRING PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS TO DISCREDIT THE WOMEN BILL CLINTON ABUSED AND IN THE CASE OF JUANITA BRODDERICK-RAPED, HAVING TO RETURN MORE THAN $30,OOO. WORTH OF FURNITURE ETC. THAT SHE STOLE TO FURNISH HER NEW MANSION IN D.C. AND MORE. IN ARKANSAS REMEMBER THE HOG FUTURE BONANZA, AND TROOPERGATE. SHE'S A DISASTER AND VERY BAD FOR THIS COUNTRY.!!!!
She's a liar and a fraud !!!

[Mike789]

As for Hillary's claims to electability, do not think for one moment that the Right's 527 scandal machine would ignore her history with the Black Panther's defense and her association with a Stalinist lawyer's firm. Cripes, the MSM Republican pundits keep touting her resurgence. They want her bad. When are people going to wise up? The Clintons are there when they need you.

[mystic]

1.JOHNNY CHUNG'S FUNDRAISING SCANDAL:Maggie Williams as her campaign manager exemplified the influence-peddling that Hillary is willing to tolerate.
2. TRAVELGATE: Hillary lied under oath (or came perilously close) in denying any involvement in the firings. The scandal shows Hillary's managerial ineptitude and her propensity to deny responsibility
3. CATTLE FUTURES TRADING :Tax returns only revealed up to 1980 --by then the statute of limitations had passed. The campaign created a fake cover story to explain the jump in net worth, falsely telling reporters that it was a gift from Hillary's parents.
4.PARDONGATE: It's hard to believe that she knew nothing about what her husband was doing on behalf of her brother and one of her major donors.
5.WHITEWATER: She was most likely padding her billing on the case in order to make more money for work she didn't do. Her invoices were undocumented, inaccurate, or padded.Bill and Hillary did some very slick legal tapdancing to avoid being prosecuted. Bill still owes me $560000, but no amount of court time will recover it.
6. HEALTHCARE: Hillary Clinton's secrecy about her health-care plan probably wasn't illegal, but it hurt the effort to pass health care reform
7.ROSE LAW FIRM:Hillary clearly had some questionable dealings, and falsely promoted the idea that her profits were walled off from the start. Also, the disappearance of Rose Law records about her legal work (they surface a few days after the statute of limitations on fraud expired) raises serious questions.

[StandingStill]

TO ALL THE VOTERS:
Since the media is refusing to reveal/report the Paul vs Clinton fraud case in court right now, we need to create our own movement and flood every blog on CNN and every blogging website on the World Wide Web with information from the case regardless of what the topic is. For those that don't know - Google Paul vs Clinton and hold on to your shirt with what you read!!
For those of you who think this case has been thrown out or is irrelevant:
"In the landmark civil fraud case against Bill Clinton in Los Angeles, where the former President is charged with defrauding a Hollywood dot com millionaire to help Hillary Clinton obtain more than $1.2 million from him for her 2000 Senate campaign, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz ruled on Friday, April 25, 2008 that Hillary Clinton would not be required to testify in a sworn deposition as a material witness in the case until AFTER the November election!.­"(paulvcli­nton.com)
Here is the kicker - the judge is a Bill Clinton appointee!

[Sneakerface]

Yeah, I remember Nancyann. I remember that most of that was nonsense and didn't happen. And I'm for Obama.

[margoharris]

The story about Travel-Gate made me cry.

Watch Hillary: The Movie (long version)
on youtube

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

White "n" is on Drudge. OOPS!

Hillary will have to do a race speech.

[veteran1964]

HERE IS THE SPEECH YOU NEED TO GIVE TO HILLARY.....THIS NEEDS TO BE SEEN BY EVERYONE....IT SHOWS WHAT IS GOIN ON.

Wow...if this hits Indiana, we'll win by a landslide. Since the conversations sometimes hide quoted info, here's the link Michael sent again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

I'm not one


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Michelle Kilpatrick wrote:

everybody must check this video out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

**********­**********­********** **********­**********­*

MICKEY KANTOR:

SERVED AS CLINTON/GORE CAMPAIGN CHAIR

SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR CLINTON

ADVISOR TO HILLARY '08:

QUOTE:

"Look at Indiana...it doesn't matter if we win. Those people are sh*t. How would you like to be a worthless white ni**er?"

END QUOTE

Link

WAKE UP, INDIANA.

**********­**********­********** **********­**********


Michelle D. Kilpatrick

[rabprevent]

CAN WE GET THIS TO MSNBC, CNN AND EVEN FOX NEWS ASAP? GET THIS TO CHUCK TODD, THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR, GET THIS PRINTED ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY'S NEWSPAPER?
WHO DO I NEED TO CALL, EMAIL THIS TO? GET ME NAMES AND EMAIL ADDRESSES ASAP PLEASE

[truesoccermom]

Guilt by association goes both ways baby!

[Taaj]

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE CLINTON SUPPORTERS, PLEASE HEAR THIS.

OBAMA SUPPORTERS ARE NOT SUPPORTING A CANDIDATE, WE ARE SUPPORTING A MOVEMENT, OURS!!

WE WANT A COUNTRY OUR CHILDREN CAN BE PROUD OF.

WE WANT OUR RESPECT, DIGNITY AND INTEGRITY BACK IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY

WE WANT THE AMERICAN DREAM REINSTATED.

THIS IS A TIME WHEN NONE OF US HAVE A CHOICE, BUT ALL OF US ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE NOT A POLITICIAN BUT A POLITICAL LEADER EMERGE THAT BELEIVES IN US AND WILL HELP US ACHIEVE OUR GOALS FOR OUR NATION.

HILLARY SUPPORTERS AND EVEN MCCAIN SUPPORTERS HELP US REBUILD AMERICA.

TAKE BACK THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE: THE FOREFATHERS TOLD US WE ARE ONE NATION

"OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE". JOIN US AND VOTE FOR OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BARACK OBAMA. :)

[Benmyoho]

Wow, what a bunch of b.s.! Your Obama is a FRAUD, big time. Okay, let those fools flock to your Obama, they are all leftists anyway, rubbish even. What we want are QUALITY superdelegates, not garbage..

[cosmic]

to be a fraud you have to be claiming to be something that you are not? what is Obama claiming to be that you find fraudulent?

[thegreatgiginthesky]

So by your reckoning all the people who support Obama are garbage?

[ChiGuy]

Gee....what a substantive counter argument.

Let's see......."fools", "leftists", "rubbish", "garbage".

Yup. A Hillary supporter alright.
Can't offer anything inspirational to say about their candidate, so the vitriolic name calling must suffice.

Hold your head high, Benmyoho.

[truesoccermom]

Both candidates have negatives and baggage but the big difference is that Hillary's baggage is personal and based on her own actions and Obama's baggage is based on the actions of three people he happens to know.
Hillary's negatives:
1: She is untrustworthy and exaggerates and misrepresents the truth.
2. She shamelessly panders for votes (downing shots, riding in pick-up trucks, remembering the good ol' hunting days, and promising stupid quick-fixes like the gas tax holiday).
3. She will go as negative as possible even if it risks destroying Obama's candidacy as long as it helps her campaign.

On the other hand, Obama's only negatives are the fact in his entire lifetime he has been friendly with three people who have done and said objectionable things.

See the difference?

[drzoon]

MANDATED HEALTHCARE is far left. helping make it more affordable.... and using the marketplace...? that is capitalist.

read "it takes a village". and even though she didn't write the book herself... i do believe its what she believes. (unless she was lying)

[AjicNYC]

you dont have a MOVEMENT!!! You have a fan club!!!

Your movement is based on a person OBAMA!! You have fallin' for a politician. You guys are fans!!!

a movement starts from organizations joining to fight against or stand for something , a principle , an Idea like

Womans rights Movement
civil rights movement

what do you have an Obama movement???

lol OH and do some research on the AMERICAN DREAM,

PLEASE SOMEONE tell me what is the American Dream and who many people do you know are living it???????

[MidwestMomma]

Sorry! But this is a movement! This is a people's movement plain and simple and it's an incredible thing to be a part of...I hope you will join us someday.

Oh! and the Dream is something different for every person...having a chance to persue whatever it is is American!

[drzoon]

you don't get it.

that's alright... we'll do for you what more than likely everyone else in your life has to do for you..

we'll "get it" for you.

and the american dream is: anyone.. ANYONE can "make it" in this country if you work hard (student loans?) and know what you want. if you know what you want... and go after it... its possible.

i have lived it. a few times. and probably will again.

and you? have you?

[AdLib]

You sound just like the crackers in the south during the civil rights movement, trying desperately to hold back the tide of change.

There is a movement, oh blind lemming, created by 7 years of Bush destroying what this country had and stood for.

You are swimming upstream and foolishly think that means a river flows against everyone. For people like you and those blind crackers, change will be here long before your mind can recognize it.

[AjicNYC]

typo , PLEASE SOMEONE tell me what is the American Dream and HOW many people do you know are living it???????

[doublesvb]

well said

[MrKINOKO]

EXCELLENT POST.

[LAJonathan]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/2/93316/53926/838/507664

BREAKING!!! Team Clinton 1992: Hoosiers are "worthless white ni**ers"

[rsottong]

Watch the video. Listen to it carefully. IT'S BEEN DOCTORED.

The whisper at the end is CLEARLY a voiceover.

Obama supporters: we don't need incindiery trash like this to make a case for his policies or governing ability.

We need to cut through this trash and get to McCain. THIS VIDEO SEEKS TO DIVIDE OUR PARTY. Don't allow that.

I'm for Obama. I'm against McCain. I'm voting D in November.

[MikeMidCity]

I saw his lips move when he said "those people are sh*t."

[cballen]

any truth to the "doctoring" claim above as far as anyone knows???

[nurseattorney]

Well, I've listened about ten times, and I don't hear a voice over at all. I hear a whisper, just as anyone willing to use such an epithet would whisper, and Kantor says clearly "white ni**er."

Surely with all the voice technology out there, that whisper can be enhanced so we can hear it more clearly.

Why is it divisive for the Obama supporters to promote this video of Hillary's backroom advisors saying hateful and divisive stuff about white voters in Indiana, but its NOT divisive for a major supporter of Hillary to arrange and coordinate that National Press Club/Wright fiasco?