Superdelegates Shift To Obama

UPDATE: Obama has picked up another superdelegate from Oregon.

Barack Obama has picked up a series of superdelegates this morning, one of which at the expense of Sen. Clinton.

Today, two California superdelegates endorsed Obama, Reps. Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza. Cadoza has previously endorsed Hillary Clinton.

In addition, two of John Edwards' New Hampshire delegates, who have since been designated as unpledged delegates, endorsed Obama.

Cardoza:

"This is the most important election of my lifetime. While I continue to greatly respect and admire Senator Clinton and feel she has made history with her campaign, I believe that Senator Obama will inevitably be our party's nominee for President. He has proven himself to be a thoughtful, knowledgeable, and inspirational leader and will take America in a new direction, which we desperately need."

Costa:

"In my conversations with Senator Obama, I explained to him that our San Joaquin Valley is the number one agricultural region in the country and in the world. Before the election in November, he needs to come to our Valley and understand the water challenges we face, the diversity of our farm crops, and the combination of the wonderful ethnic communities that make up Valley families, which is truly a reflection of our nation."

Comments

[TheShadow]

So the question that begs to be asked: Where are the rest of the Super Delegates waiting for? I think that waiting for the phone call from the Bill or Hilary that an Ambassadorship for their loyalty is long gone.

Come one SD's: It’s time to make haste for the exits from the Clinton Kabuki dance show, and think about winning big in November!

Sh*t, or get off the pot.

[abby4ever]

We will find out if the reason the SD's aren't declaring yet is because they want to wait until all the primaries are over, on 4 June. If they don't come out by then, we will know they have a different reason. if they do, I hope it's a good one, because the calls for them to show their cards are getting louder and louder. Soon they will be deafening.

[Krikkit]

Haven't you noticed that the superdelegates have been rolling out at a regular pace?

Both campaigns have been pitching to these superdelegates for a long while now. I have no doubt that of those that informed Obama that they want to endorse him were told to please not endorse until asked. That way, as they stream to Obama's side in twos and threes and fours and fives daily in concurrence with the remaining races, it will be impossible for Hillary to claim that the superdelegates "stole" the election from her. I have no doubt that she would scream bloody murder if they all came pouring to his side today!

[wolfi101]

Yes, he is picking them up quite regularly, but I have to agree more with abby4ever, that at this point, there's only 10 days or so left, and the delegates who have already committed, might be more likely to wait it out.

But I hope not.

[PAposter]

If anything happens to Senator Obama, the REVOLUTION will not only be Televised, it will be on YouTube, MySpace, Facebook..­.......etc­. Who would have ever thought there would be so much resistance to Change, this nation is build on Change, Advancement, Growth and Expansion. Maybe if "European Immigrants had not treated "African Immigrants" so poorly, for so long, there would be nothing to fear. This land was the sacred home of Native Americans, now look at it, we have all destroyed it. And the ONLY candidate that had enough respect to go visit the Native Americans, is BARACK OBAMA!

Superdelegates, Stand Up, endorse a candidate, so all us "Americans" know where we Stand in this process.

[westminster]

I suspect that by next week the slow drip of super delegates will become a constant leak and a flood towards Obama. Responsible super delegates could not possibly think that the comments were ok. Kind of scary where this woman's head is. SHE HAS COME UNDONE!!!!!!!!!

[PAposter]

I'm hoping for a f*cking tsunami of Superdelegates, the Fierce Urgency of Now, is upon us.

[INDYBIGT]

Great theme song for her goodbye rally-- She's Come Undone by the Guess Who!

[in4success]

Increasingly, Clinton is operating in a virtual reality programmed by her pollster Mark Penn during his downtime from working for the butchers of Colombia. Adhering to Penn"s fatal calculus, Clinton has endeavored to re-segregate the Democratic Party electorate into demographic segments and then pitted them against each other. The Clinton campaign has intentionally inflamed these simmering antagonisms: black versus Hispanic, black versus white, black versus older women, white collar versus blue collar, young versus old, under-educated versus college grad.

Another example. Hillary came to Oregon last week. She didn"t draw 75,000 people for a speech on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland, as Obama did. Instead she headed to Beaverton, the posh suburb of Portland that is home to Nike, where she held a press conference in an empty subdivision of new upscale homes that had sat unsold for the past year. Most of the people who voted for her in West Virginia don"t earn enough in ten years of hard labor to pay for one of these houses. She communed with the developer, commiserating over the hard times of the real estate industry.

And now, this -- certainly doesn't exhibit the judgement a president would need when answering that call at 3AM... nor, btw, did her iraq war vote or echoing that vote with the kyle/lieberman bill --- particularly, when lieberman refers to the insane pastor john hagee (who supports nuking iran in order to expedite the rapture) as a man of god.

[abby4ever]

The Times of London is running the story of Hillary's latest reference to RFK's assassination, and a comment to that story reads as follows:
"Hillary was referring to a historical fact - RFK was campaigning in June when he was killed. One needs to be slightly paranoid to twist this into anything more than that." (Nona, New York City, USA)
I want to say: that's just it! Why didn't Hillary just say that in addition to Bill not winning until June, RFK was also still campaining in June---and leave it right there? There was absolutely no need to mention his assassination, in order to make her point. Therefore, she must have been trying to make another, different point, with her reference to RFK being killed.
Hillary must think we are stupid.

[in4success]

"Hillary must think we are stupid."

no... she knows her "uneducated white" base is stupid and that is to whom she is communicating with. if it were the "educated" people she were pandering to this woulod have been over long ago.

[INDYBIGT]

...Like one of her long shot scenarios to win the nomination. I don't think it was meant as an historical statement at all.

[INDYBIGT]

Hill's RFK statement sounded to me like an invitation to some nut to shoot Obama. Like wishful thinking. Like one of her long shot ;

[wolfi101]

That's why it shocked everyone ( minus the die-hard Hillary supporters, that is ).

[speakingtruth2power]

There is very often some good that comes from a bad situation.

The good news is we can forget about Hillary getting the VP job.

We can't have that vulture hanging around, hovering & drooling.

[mizonglohong]

I know!!! I am still in shock that she said she's just waiting to climb over the coffin! But, you are so right that she will not be anywhere near him!

[DenaL]

It is way past time for Delegate Donna Christensen of the U.S. VIrgin Islands to switch her Sept. 2007 endorsement of Clinton to Barack Obama because 89.6% of the U.S. Virgin Islands Democrats voted for Obama in our caucus. This is as ridiculous as Clinton grasping by her fingernails to the delusion that she is going to be the nominee. Bow out gracefully, Hillary, and take your conjoined twin Christensen with you. And while you're at it, look yourself in the mirror--YOU blew it--sexism had nothing to do with it. You lost my vote months ago. From a 60+ white woman.

[abby4ever]

Whatever the reality is about Hillary, there is a growing and widespread perception that she is unfit to be president. On that, someone should go to Hillary and say this: "Look, sunshine, if I were you I wouldn't worry about Obama's electability or lack of it. The reality is that you yourself are becoming, if you haven't already become, unelectable. If I were you, then, I'd stop using Obama's supposed unelectability as an argument for why you should be the nominee. It just makes you look silly--for at this point in time, I'd say he is much more electable than you. Time to concede, sunshine."

[paganmist]

I am floored.

First, I see comments that racism doesn't exist. Yes! People saying racism doesn't exist!

And then, once 20% of West Virginia - amongst others - proudly step up and say, "Actually, racism DOES exist, oh and could you hang that darky from a tree, please?" - people instead say that sexism has been the worst thing affecting these elections.

And now I am hearing people downplay the fact that if a black man becomes President, his life is more in danger than any President or political figure we've had thus far?

Do some of you people seriously believe that Obama's life isn't constantly in danger as we speak?

Or do you deny it, because it allows you to maintain your support of Hillary (or McCain) without having to feel empathy for the "enemy"?

I hope it's the last part. I can understand the last part - the best way to stay angry with someone is to demonize them and pretend like they've never done any good.

But god help us all if there are people so unaware of the history of this country and the state of this country that they truly believe that Hillary Clinton and John McCain are anywhere near the same level of danger that Obama is.

[Anonani]

They know...and never doubt it. There is something about pointing out a truth that makes some people invoke questions about your sanity. The reasons for denying that racisms exists in the US is probably autobiographical for too many.

[ashen]

Keep in mind that changing the minds of the superdelegates is the one thing that could possibly allow Hillary to win at this point. Not even seating Michigan and Florida IN FULL will allow her to win -- Obama's projected delegate wins from here on out STILL put him ahead.

[Mogamboguru]

Right. And this is GOOD news! 8-)

[HoosierInMaryland]

Whether Senator Clinton said her comments with malice or not, the part that REALLY turned me off was the standard political non-apology apology, specifically "If I offended anyone."

Well DUH! There's an outroar, especially among Democrats, so OBVIOUSLY someone was offended.

"If I offended anyone"? Would there be ANY comments if she had NOT?

She offended the entire Kennedy family today. She offended the Obama family today by not including them in her non-apology apology. And she offended every American who knows anything about assassinations and the history of such attempts on American Presidents, President-elects, and candidates for President.

ALL of her comments today, along with the "working class ... WHITE working class" comments less than three weeks ago show to me that her concern is NOT trying to unite this country, but only win the nomination and get back into the White House.

No wonder many are now calling her 'Hellery' or worse.

[MikePS65]

"...I regret that if my referencing that moment...w­as in any way offensive.­.."

Right. If.

Even if you ignore the ugliness, whether by design or accident, of the actual comment, you have to marvel at the seemingly physiological inability of the woman to apologize for her mistakes in a believable way. She seems to regard the admission of her own missteps as a sign of weakness, and as a result, we get these mealy-mouthed mea culpas that seem to say "If you're offended by my comments, that's because there's something wrong with the way you process them."

In fact, over the past eight years, we've seen exactly what happens when a President can't admit to having made a mistake. Rhetoric replaces honest discourse, and the badly chosen path becomes a rut from which neither the President nor the country can escape.

I think the American people have a great capacity for forgiveness - for myself, I regard the ability to admit errors as a sign of strength. Our only condition is that the person asking for it, actually ASK for it.

[valleygent]

Anderson Cooper on CNN had 3 Hillary advocates on his show dismissing Hillary's vile comments on assasination. He had no Obama supporters on the show. Absolute bias. Thank God for Keith O.

[clintfatigue]

Cooper is a puppet. CNN used to have integrity. Not any more.

[cooltxman]

when did cnn go astray? i don't watch them anymore.

[Mogamboguru]

Living abroad, you have no other chance than watch CNN. MSNBC isn't broadcasting outside the USA. And I cannot watch everything on the Internet (yet?).

Anyway, Hillary Clinton vastly underestimated the power of the Net for this and future elections. This time, the Net is Sen. Obama's. And his victory will be the first one being won by the power of the Net.

But rest assured: The Republicans will catch up. Conservatives have a constand pligh: What they cannot control, they try to destroy. So be sure to see strong conservative attempts to have the Internet controlled by any furure state agency, soon.

[PAposter]

You're right, I watched the rebroadcast last night/this morning, Lol, and I was shocked by how they were covering this story. Keep in mind, by that time Robert Kennedy, Jr. had released a statement, he's a Clinton supporter. I would love to hear what Ted Kennedy had to say about this.

[obamajusrocks]

NO ! To any talk of a joint ticket with Clinton

[KarenKaren]

Five SDs on a Friday--TGIF!

[Chillinout]

Many more are going to come out this weekend and next week I think, especially after Howard Dean begins receiving all the emails he is bound to get.

[e-mail]

Email him and let him know how you think. I put "donations" in the subject line to make sure it is opened in a timely matter.

[akkadian]

LOL