Obama: I won't get as many endorsements because I haven't traded favors

[Alamom]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/primarysource/2007/07/obama_i_wont_ge.html

Obama: I won't get as many endorsements because I haven't traded favors


CONCORD, N.H. -- Under a hot sun, Illinois Senator Barack Obama received the endorsement of New Hampshire US Representative Paul Hodes, the first endorsement of such a scale in the first-in-the-nation primary state.

Hodes, a freshman Democrat from Concord, said he was supporting Obama to empower the newly Democratic controlled Congress.

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Obama said he was proud to have Hodes' endorsement, but conceded he would not have near the number of endorsements that other candidates, like Hillary Clinton will have.

"We haven't been in Washington all that long and we haven't traded that many favors," Obama said.

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With endorsements not meaning anything or so they say...
When other candidates get them, it's said they're bought (or traded)
With all the talk by this candidate of big changes in how everything is done in DC....
Imagine....my.... surprise at his statement about having so few endorsements.

Politics as usual. :eyes:

[hijinx87]

1. smart. playing the "outsider" card.

he's turning what could be perceived as a weakness into a strength.

[jefferson_dem]

3. And...by the way...he's right.

[hijinx87]

8. I try to stick to critiques of campaign strategy.

I attempt, sometimes unsuccessfully, to stay away from the "candidate
wars", because it usually isn't in me to brawl with people that I agree
with the vast majority of the time.

but, as a matter of campaign strategy, this is pretty smart. it probably
won't play in the general, should he win the nomination, because the rethugs
don't appear as though they are going to nominate a beltway insider.

[Colobo]

2. Good for Obama! :)

[rhombus]

Well, its' the hard truth. The Clintons were actually bullying some donors

You're either with us or against us. That's how they begun their campaign to strong-arm all the big donors. And sad for the Clinton campaign, some of the big time fundraisers were appalled by this bullying tactic and bailed on them.

[sandnsea]

4. Are endorsements often for favors?

Are you saying that isn't true?

[rodeodance]

6. well, Obama certainly implies that!

[Alamom]

11. Obama obviously thinks you trade favors for endorsements and

he says he hasn't been in Washington long enough to trade for many.......(Bold print/OP)

In making excuses for not having a load of endorsements, do we have
another fumble or is that how it's done in Chicago.



edgr

[sandnsea]

16. You refuse to answer

Even though we already know that Hillary got the endorsment of Darrell Jackson who she gave a $10,000 a month consulting contract to. And the endorsements of Mack and Alexander, who own components of Jackson's Sunrise Communications.

Once again, Obama points out the truth about Hillary, and you guys attack him for stating the truth. :crazy:

Do you cry and agonize about why the country is all fucked up too??

[rinsd]

19. Its the pattern of saying one thing but doing another.

"I don't trade favors for endorsements" while making his latest endorsee a campaign co-chair.

"I don't take lobbyist money" while taking state lobbyist dollars and money from lobbyists spouses.

"I represent a new politics" while calling Hillary Bush lite

[sandnsea]

22. My god, your candidate PAYS PEOPLE

Hellooooo???? How are you able to ignore that?

[rinsd]

24. You do realize she outbid Obama for Jackson's endorsement don't you?

A few days before that, Jackson was deep in negotiations with Steve Hildebrand, a senior strategist for Sen. Barack Obama's campaign. On the table was a contract worth in excess of $5K a month, beginning on 3/15/07. Separately, Obama was personally soliciting Jackson's endorsement.

Once again, Force of Good - 1, Team Smear-4-Obama - 0!

[sandnsea]

27. Then what the fuck are you bitching about

You smear him for the strategies that YOUR candidate put in place. I guess you like politics in America and the fucked up state of the world, is that it?

[rinsd]

32. Run away to fight another day sandnsea..

You got pwned here.

[sandnsea]

36. Hillary sold to the highest bidder

Exposed for exactly what she is, and so were the rest of you.

[Alamom]

5. Miss the point much? Read the bold and think about it. nm

[illinoisprogressive]

7. Hillary has bought and traded favors for endorsements. most of them have been bought.

[rinsd]

9. Team Smear-4-Obama chimes in.

[Alamom]

12. And he implies he hasn't been around long enough to do the same...

[rinsd]

10. So what did Obama trade to get Hodes endorsement?

Or is it just endorsement envy because Clinton gets a longtime well known Senator while Obama gets a freshman Congressman?

[wyldwolf]

13. became an Obama national campaign co-chair

...but that ain't no favor, is it? LOL

[rinsd]

14. !!!!!

:rofl:

[wyldwolf]

15. if we went back and looked at all his endorsements, how much of that would we see?

[rinsd]

26. Check out upthread when someone threw Darell Jackson in my face (nt)

[sandnsea]

17. I bet not $10,000 a month n/t

[rinsd]

25. Yeah Obama wanted Jackson on the "cheap" at $5,000 a month

[sandnsea]

28. Ten more years of shit

That's what you guys are supporting. It becomes clearer every day.

[rinsd]

30. That one had to sting.

And 10 more years? :shrug:

[sandnsea]

33. two years to 2009

eight years of Hillary after that. Ten years of junkyard politics. Ten years of nibbling at the edges. No real change in foreign policy, trade, labor, health care. Ignoring Darfur like we ignored Rwanda. A President who won't take any risks because their legacy is more important, just like Bill Clinton. More loss of rights because we won't have a President to stand up to the right. Smack in the middle of a right wing crap fest that got us George Bush the last time. That's the America you believe in.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

35. You claim Obama represents real change, unlike HRC but can't name any differences between the two

:wtf:

Can you name any policy differences between HRC (Coke) and Obama (Pepsi), aside from the two things I mentioned on which Obama is more conservative than the DLCer?

[sandnsea]

37. I named several, did you miss it?

Or are you still saying any fucking thing, just like your candidate does.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

40. Name how BO differs from HRC on policy

Thanks in advance.

[sandnsea]

41. I DID

How many days, weeks, months are you going to pretend I didn't??

[draft_mario_cuomo]

42. Where?

All you did was recite a list of things without saying how Obama differs from HRC on those things. We all know why you can't do that. They are identical on policy.

[sandnsea]

44. He was attacked on those issues

Because they were different. You joined in the attack.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

46. Can you list the differences between the two on those things? Thanks in advance

I don't think I have even posted about some of those things, let alone criticized BO for having the same position as HRC on them. :rofl:

[sandnsea]

47. You already did it

Did you forget all your attacks on Obama and how radical his policies are?

[draft_mario_cuomo]

48. No, I criticized Obama for being too conservative, like HRC

Still can't find any differences between HRC and HRC-lite?

[sandnsea]

50. So you do know

And are familiar with everything I posted. Good. Carry on with twisting it any way you like. I'm sure nothing I could say will change the shit you post tomorrow.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

52. Where did I say that and what does that have to do with Obama being HRC-lite? nt

[Bitwit1234]

18. Oh - except I forgot to mention the Chicago mobster....guess he don't count.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

20. So he is insinuating HRC is corrupt?

Obama keeps digging and digging...

[bigdarryl]

21. If he is its true

[sandnsea]

23. Edwards never got a favor??

Are you going to sit there and tell me that Edwards never got an endorsement because he had given donations to some politician or another? Are you seriously going to pretend that??

[draft_mario_cuomo]

29. What does Edwards have to do with Obama insinuating HRC is corrupt? nt

[rinsd]

31. Nothing but its a fun example of hypocrisy.

See sandnsea just finished explaining that Clinton supporters are the only ones who shit all over other candidates to make themselves look better.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

39. Exactly nt

[sandnsea]

34. Just a question

Can't question Edwards??

[draft_mario_cuomo]

38. Sure but what does he have to do with a thread in which BO implies HRC is corrupt?

It is bizarre to introduce Edwards into this thread.

[sandnsea]

43. Are you admitting you're a hypocrite?

Who attacks others but won't answer the same questions he attacks over?

[draft_mario_cuomo]

45. Where did I attack BO on this? Search for the thread about HRC/BO buying a SC endorsement

You won't see me in that thread...

[sandnsea]

49. You aren't attacking anybody??

Well that would be a refreshing switch.

[SaveElmer]

51. Ahhh..."The Politics of Hope"....

Bask in its glow....

In one day Mr. Clean Jeans has managed to call Hillary Clinton Bush-Cheney lite, imply she is corrupt, and insult the many fellow Democrats that have chosen to endorse her...

[Imagevision]

53. Obama is very impressive, a no nonsense no bullsh*t kind of guy I would want to have a beer with?