(Bill) Clinton ex-campaign manager backs Obama

[babylonsister]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/02/clinton_excampaign_manager_bac.php

Clinton ex-campaign manager backs Obama

Bill Clinton's 1992 Campaign Chief Backs Obama's Presidential Bid

PHILIP ELLIOTT
AP News

Feb 13, 2008 11:20 EST

The man who served as national manager of former President Clinton's 1992 campaign plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama, an aide to Obama said Wednesday.

Obama's campaign planned a 1 p.m. conference call Wednesday to announce the endorsement by David Wilhelm, who later became chairman of the Democratic National Committee, according to an aide who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement would be made public later in the day.

Wilhelm planned to tell reporters that Obama can build a coalition of Democrats, independents and Republicans needed to win the general election.

Wilhelm is a superdelegate who was previously uncommitted in the race. His endorsement helps Obama in the race for delegates, in which he pulled ahead after Tuesday's sweeps of primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Clinton remains considerably ahead in superdelegates, which are party officials, elected officials and others who can vote however they choose at the nominating convention.

If the race for pledged delegates based on outcomes in caucuses and primaries across the country remains tight, superdelegates could decide the nomination.

Obama leads the delegate race with 1,224 to 1,198 to Clinton, according to the latest count by The Associated Press.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Drip, drip, drip...

[rox63]

2. Ouch!

That one's gonna sting.

[Carolina]

3. K&R

:kick:

[goldcanyonaz]

4. Misleading title to make it read as though Hillary's campaign manager backs Obama.

[pnwmom]

5. That's what I thought, too. n/t

[babylonsister]

12. That was the original title, but I changed it just for you. nt

[goldcanyonaz]

13. I appreciate your doing so, but talking points is another story. It is a misleading headline.

Thank you for editing the title.

[SoxFan]

6. ruh roh

[hogwyld]

7. I still believe that Hillary will find a way

to get the SD's by any way necessary to snatch the nomination from a bunch of rabblerousing insurgents. :scared:

[Barack_America]

8. Interesting.

Apparently Clinton loyalty does not run very deep.

[papau]

9. coalition of Democrats, independents and Republicans - and that will make small step change happen -

aren't we happy.

[babylonsister]

11. Do you want a Dem to win this election? Sometimes I wonder. nt

[Adelante]

10. Very nice

:)