Election Day: If you live in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, or Vermont, please consider voting (and caucusing) for Barack Obama today. Even notwithstanding all of the Clinton campaign’s bad behavior of late, it’s time to focus on Sen. McCain and the Bush-Cheney Republicans.
Tag: Vermont
Leahy and Durazo Aboard.
“‘We need a president who can reintroduce America to the world – and actually reintroduce America to ourselves. Barack Obama represents the America we once were and want to be again.” Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont endorses Barack Obama. “Leahy likened his support of Obama to the 1968 presidential campaign, when as a young prosecutor he endorsed Robert Kennedy over Hubert Humphrey. ‘He was bringing us a sense of hope, bringing us together,’ Leahy said. ‘I know those are intangibles, but it encouraged me to go against the establishment in my own state, and go with Bobby Kennedy.’“
And another potentially big Obama endorsement from yesterday: Maria Elena Durazo, head of the Los Angeles Federation of Labor. One expert said of Durazo: “There is no person in all of California who could get more people out to the street to go do something, either to march or get the vote out.” “When she discussed her endorsement with her son Michael, a senior at Cathedral High School in Los Angeles, he urged her to choose Obama. ‘He said, “In the end, Mom, it’s the chance of a lifetime.” For him to say that means a lot. It’s true.’”
Independent’s Day.
Citing both his and his wife’s health, Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) announces he will not seek reelection in 2006. That’s too bad…it took a lot of courage for Jeffords to leave the GOP in 2001, and the Senate needs more leaders of his ilk. Enjoy your retirement, Sen. Jeffords — you’ve earned it.
Payback’s a B****.
Basking in their return to power, the GOP contemplates what evil things to do to James Jeffords of Vermont, instrument of their fall from grace eighteen months ago.