Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison to Endorse Obama

[kpete]

Author Toni Morrison to Endorse Obama

Share January 28, 2008 7:23 AM

ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison -- who famously declared Bill Clinton to be the nation's "first black president" -- is endorsing Barack Obama for president today, an Obama campaign source tells ABC News.

This comes as Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., also announces his support for Obama on Monday, at a rally in Washington.

In an October 1998 essay in The New Yorker, Morrison wrote: "Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime."

The Morrison endorsement is expected to come via letter from Morrison to Obama that the campaign is releasing later today.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/author-toni-mor.html

[Benhurst]

1. ...

:rofl:

[Bullet1987]

2. GOBAMA!!

But I thought she endorsed Clinton a while back?

[Connie_Corleone]

3. Hopefully, she'll apologize for calling Bill the first black president.

I never liked it and thought it was offensive when people called him that.

[Benhurst]

4. So did I.

I think she should have just kept her thoughts to herself. So what is Obama supposed to be now? Our SECOND Black president, if elected? It's all too silly to contemplate, and to be fair, neither Clinton's or Obama's fault.
Enough, already!

[Adelante]

5. TO AVOID EXPLODING HEADS - LEAVE DU NOW nt

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

6. LOL

I'm going to need to increase my lead screening to protect from the exploding head debris that keeps flying from the Hillaryites every time Obama or Edwards gets an endorsement. Maybe that explains the juvenile level of the insults that often result.

[WinkyDink]

7. I'll wait for Nobel-Prize-winning Jimmy Carter.

[goodhue]

8. excellent

[mdmc]

9. kick

:patriot: