Posted on 02/08/2008 9:38:10 AM PST by jdm
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(CNN) — Barack Obama has won the backing of Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, one day before that state is set to hold its Democratic primary.
The Washington Democrat, who won the office in 2004 after a hand recount favored her by only 129 votes, said she found it difficult to choose between Obama and Hillary Clinton, but was ultimately drawn to the Illinois senator's charisma and leadership skills.
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Washington Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray have endorsed Clinton's White House bid.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Gregoire breaks with the two liberal Senators.
Both Obama and Clinton have stated the importance of winning Washington recently.
Gregoire controls the dead votes, doesn’t she?
Vote for Barack — Let’s surrender in Iraq!
but was ultimately drawn to the Illinois senator’s charisma and leadership skills
I don’t get it.
You bet she does. She won her election through a bunch of shady vote counting in King County (Seattle).
Shouldn’t “governor” be in quotation marks? She won the election with the help of “provisional” ballots that were mixed in with the others.
Gregoire controls the dead votes, doesn’t she?
Yes...Dead voters walking!
I guess Gregoire is as sexist as T. Kennedy. I expect NOW to begin lambasting her soon.
She’s a colostomy bag HACK for all the unions in Washington State!
To say the least....
LOL - Some of his 'Accomplishments'? This reminds me of the time, after a debate between Obama/Hillary the Fox Pollster asked his focus group of undecideds if they had changed their mind and decided. 3/4 of the people (About 15 - 20 in all) raised their hands and said after seeing the debate they had been swayed to vote for Obama.
Then the clincher. The Pollster asked them to name on thing about his stand on the issues that had caused them to select him - Complete silence!
Whaddayawanna bet that if Hillary loses she will blame it on her lack of likeability. Which will totally be true.
A do-nothing endorses another do-nothing.
Wrong. She’ll pull the female victimization card and claim its because America isn’t progressive enough to elect a woman as president.
Mrs Gregoire has more connections to special interests in the state than any other pol possibly could have. I wonder which big-money interests are behind her endorsement. And behind Obama.
I think she should be called the "acting governor", since she's not the governor the people elected.
You are both wrong, Obama will be found in Fort Marcy Park after having commited suicide like Vince Foster.
I’ll take that bet.
The Clintons NEVER attribute any problems to themselves or assume ANY responsibility for the consequences of their actions. They are certifiably Sociopathic. See my Free Repulic About Page, it is all there. I diagnosed them as such a long time ago and they continue to exhibit markers for this condition as we speak.
Bet Gregoire wants to be the next U.S. Attorney General.
Hey, look how well all the Kennedy endorsements helped in Massachusetts?
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