Four Florida Congress Members Who Backed Hillary Endorse Obama

[babylonsister]

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Four Florida Members Of Congress Who Backed Hillary Come Out For Obama
By Greg Sargent - June 5, 2008, 5:16PM


More Dem elected officials continue to coalesce behind Obama: A bloc of four Members of Congress from Florida who previously backed Hillary -- including one of Hillary's most loyal supporters -- is coming out for Obama, one of their spokespeople confirms to me.

The four are Alcee L. Hastings, Corrine Brown, Kendrick B. Meek, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a very committed Hillary loyalist.

While its hardly surprising that Dem elected officials are coming out for Obama right now -- the entire New York Congressional delegation endorsed him today -- the support of these Florida Reps. is key, because they might be able to help soothe voters in this crucial state that are still upset about the failure to seat the full Florida delegation. The Obama camp advocated for a half-seating.

"It is with enthusiasm and excitement that we endorse Barack Obama for President," the four will say in a statement soon to go out to reporters that will also ask Obama to "do everything in his power" to seat the full delegations at the convention.

"All of us standing on one stage, hand-in-hand will send a clear message to Florida voters that regardless of who we previously supported, we stand united and as one from this day forward," the statement says.

[Hope And Change]

1. K & R!

[KeepItReal]

2. Good. Step 2: Campaign against GOP'ers from Florida

Don't lose the momentum, Meeks and Wasserman-Schultz.

[aquart]

3. Despite the scumsucking behavior of the Obama campaign and its supporters.

True Democrats (Hillary supporters all) behave magnificently.

[babylonsister]

4. 6 Days, then bye bye! Make that 5 and change. nt

[guruoo]

7. "There will be some jerks on the winning side...

who insist on gloating. And there will be some sore losers on the other side who will want to keep attacking the nominee. Once we have a presumptive nominee, those people will have one week to get it out of their systems."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6285770

[babylonsister]

8. Yep, I'm counting down for ones like this; there are some very nice

true Clinton supporters who are honest Dems on this board. The one above isn't one of them.

[populistdriven]

11. somehow this one escaped my ignore list... *plonk*

First known use of PLONK:

The first known use was in 1989 by a Richard Sexton in the alt.flame newsgroup.

>>Please refrain from posting to talk.bizarre until such time as you
>>cease to be an asshole and become at least one of: bizarre, creative,
>>or entertaining. You are welcome to dump your rotting ordure in rec.humor
>>or some similar group where your fellow mental defectives congregate.

>Make me.

*plonk*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk

[guruoo]

12. ROTFLMAO!

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/fullscreen.html?mode=m&year=2008&month=6&day=11&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p0=179

[OhioChick]

5. K&R

:kick:

[mopinko]

6. feel the o. but the delegation-

just to be straight about what happened last saturday- the full delegation will be seated, they just will all have one half of a vote.

[bvar22]

9. Hillary should have conceded last Tuesday.

She's going to look like a jilted bride by Saturday....standing at the coronation altar all by herself while her strongest supporters are partying at the Obama camp.

[gristy]

10. Debbie Wasserman Schultz????????????????

Holy shit. You have got to be effing kidding me.

[babylonsister]

13. Yep. Quite the shocker. nt

[seafan]

15. Debbie W. planned to pressure Obama yesterday; preparing to endorse him today.

Just yesterday, June 4, she was spearheading the idea of a letter, signed by herself and her Clinton supporter colleagues, to be sent to Obama, *suggesting strongly* to include their girl on his ticket.



Today, she's declaring her imminent endorsement of Obama.

Four Florida Members Of Congress Who Backed Hillary Come Out For Obama


W. stands for whiplash.

[robinlynne]

14. well done.