Superdelegate Davis slow to endorse Obama [he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell...]

Nashville City Paper ^

[Sub-Driver]

Superdelegate Davis slow to endorse Obama

By John Rodgers, jrodgers@nashvillecitypaper.com Updated: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:33 am

The rise of Sen. Barack Obama, to become the Democrats’ presidential nominee has put most of his party’s faithful on his bandwagon — but not Lincoln Davis, a rural Tennessee Congressman with gubernatorial ambitions.

Davis (D-Pall Mall) is not yet endorsing the presumptive nominee in Obama, saying he’ll wait until the late August Democratic Party national convention.

In Davis’ sprawling 4th Congressional District — which ranges from as far west as Hickman County to as far east as the upper Cumberland Plateau — less than a quarter of Democrats in the largely rural district voted for Obama, the nation’s first African-American presidential candidate nominated by a major party, in Tennessee’s presidential primary.

Davis, a rural white Congressman, represents two-dozen counties — 21 in their entirety and three in part — including Williamson’s southwestern corner.

In February’s Tennessee Democratic primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) won 23 of those 24 counties, garnering 68 percent of the vote compared to Obama’s 23 percent. Obama won only Williamson County.

When examining the 21 counties resting entirely within Davis’ district, Clinton’s numbers rise from 68 percent to winning 73 percent of the vote. Obama won a meager 18 percent.

[avacado]

“He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”

"Okay... you caught me..."

[johnny7]

Denver still may be fun... buyers remorse is a strange malady.

[wideawake]

I think Lincoln Davis has the best name ever.

Oh, except for my friend Churchill Gandhi.

[End_Clintonism_Now]

[clamper1797]

BINGO !!!!

[penelopesire]

“He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”

Quick...send this ‘tip’ to Obama’s ‘smear campaign’ website!

LMAO!!

Now if a republican had said this...Obama’s Marxist Thugs would have already printed it in the headline and filed a lawsuit!

[SE Mom]

Whoa...this guy has guts.

[kingattax]

[Miss Didi]

The Repubs are already being blamed...

At the end of the article:

UPDATE

The Tennessee Democratic Party issued the following statement Friday morning in response to this story:

“The Tennessee Democratic Party is united behind our party’s nominee, Senator Barack Obama. Mr. Hobbs is obviously misinformed, and his statement highlights the perpetual efforts of the Republican Party, especially here in Tennessee, to turn internet smears and highly offensive gossip into their party’s message against Senator Barack Obama as we head into the General Election. Instead of debating the issues, the Tennessee Republican Party continues to rely upon slanderous and salacious tall tales. They are borrowing from the playbook first written by Richard Nixon and employed in the race against Congressman Harold Ford Jr. Tennesseans of every political persuasion are tired of these tactics.”

[roses of sharon]

OMG, and Democrat who is not an insane anti-American?

This guy had better get out of his wacko party quick!

[girlangler]

I’m pinging myself cause I have to run out the door, have an appointment. However, I want to share this with you two, and read it later myself.

This is my congresscritter (tee hee)

Just A Nobody, you have an important freepmail

[penelopesire]

Missed that part. Why am I not surprised?

We really should send this article to the Obama ‘smear site’....no respectable Marxist would let this guy off the hook. /sarcasm.

I am going to do it....LOL

[girlangler]

This is my congressman. He knows this area, one of the few Dem districts in east Tennessee.

I can tell you the Dems here don’t want to see Obama as president. I know, I hear it at the grocery store, gas station, etc. And yes, many of these yahoos here are Democrats and racist as **** (BTW, I am not from this county, and am not a racist).

Or a democrat, obviously.

I’m giving this Blue Dog Democrat a call tomorrow.

I think he’s planning on running for Gov. of Tennessee.

[girlangler]

BS Mr. Hobbs. I live here in Davis’s district, and I know better.

[End_Clintonism_Now]

Excellent!!!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The Repubs are already being blamed...

Just like Dean blaming McCain for the Washington Post article about Johnson, when he knows full well it was Hillary's doing.

[johnny7]

Hey girlangler!

[Miss Didi]

Well, naturally. Aren't Howard's days numbered now that Barry is moving The Obama Show to Chicago?

[kingattax]

thanks :)