Endorsement Update (3/5)
Apparently Obama hasn’t become black enough to scare away the endorsements, yet. Today, it should be mentioned, he secured the endorsement of the first post-March 4th superdelegate: Dayton, Ohio Mayor Rhine McLin. What sparked this endorsement? Obama trounced Hillary in her county by over 10,000 votes.
Rolling Stone also endorsed Obama today, here are some highlights:
Obama has emerged by displaying precisely the kind of character and judgment we need in a president: renouncing the politics of fear, speaking frankly on the most pressing issues facing the country and sticking to his principles. He recognizes that running for president is an opportunity to inspire an entire nation.I encourage you to read the whole thing though, Rolling Stone is apparently quite a bit more astute than the “traditional” news media.
All this was made clearer by the contrast with Hillary Clinton, a capable and personable senator who has run the kind of campaign that reminds us of what makes us so discouraged about our politics. Her campaign certainly proved her experience didn’t count for much: She was a bad manager and a bad strategist who naturally and easily engaged in the politics of distraction, trivialization and personal attack. She never convinced us that her vote for the war in Iraq was anything other than a strategic political calculation that placed her presidential ambitions above the horrifying consequences of a war. Her calibrated course corrections over the past three years were painful.
