Posted on 10/27/2008 3:52:28 AM PDT by WilliamReading
Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.), who was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the United States Senate, is the latest Republican to back Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Politico learned Sunday.
Pressler, who said that in addition to casting an absentee ballot for Obama he'd donated $500 to the Illinois senator's campaign, cited the Democrat's response to the financial crisis as the primary reason for his decision.
"I just got the feeling that Obama will be able to handle this financial crisis better, and I like his financial team of [former Treasury Secretary Robert] Rubin and [former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul] Volcker better," he said. By contrast, John McCain's "handling of the financial crisis made me feel nervous."
Pressler, who said that he had never voted for a Democrat for president before, added, "I feel really badly. I just hate to go against someone I served with in the Senate. I voted and I got it mailed and I dropped it in the mailbox, and it tore at me to do that."
Currently an adjunct professor at Baruch College in New York, Pressler served in the Senate from 1979 through 1997, and prior to that spent two terms in the House of Representatives.
Like some of Obama's other Republican supporters, Pressler said he had concerns about his party's fiscal policy, particularly the war in Iraq, that went beyond the presidential campaign.
"We have to be a moderate party. We can't be for all these foreign military adventures. We have to stop spending so much money. My God, the deficit is so high!" he said. "The Republican Party I knew in the 1970s is just all gone."
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Yeah, I think Former Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman...who just so happened to be the Democratic vice Presidential Candidate....is voting for McCain...how much press does that get? And it doesn’t tear up Lieberman at all! LOL
ii the tank or in the belly?
Pressler?
He used to be somebody, before the dementia grabbed hold of his brain.
Now he’s just another RINO-puke who can’t keep his freakin’ piehole shut.
Pressler probably got paid off. No big deal. He lost his senate seat due to a financial scandal if I recall.
First “Mow ‘Em Down” Janklow, Daschle’s bestest friend, and now Larry Pressler. WTF is with these South Dakota RINO twits ?
Palin. all the rockefeller elitists are coming out
Can you say New World Order?
“the Republican Party of the 1970’s is all gone”..would that be the Republican Party in the perpetual minority in Congress? “Adjunct professor..in NY”....yeah right. The PoliticObama is looking under any an every rock to find a Republican voting for Osbama.
The world economic markets don't seem to be sharing his optimism on Obama's handling of the economy. This is a referendum on the confidence of Democrat control.
And now we know why he is a former senator.
Completely out of his mind.
I still can’t get over this. The 70’s. Who cares about the bloody friggin 70’s???????
Don’t forget that skank parker.
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Out of work Presser sees high-level Government job dead ahead.
The Republican party of the 1970’s gave us Justice John Paul Stevens. That is hardly moderate, since Stevens is one of the most leftwing ASSociate Judges on the SCOTUS.
This is the RINO who was replaced by Tim Johnson, one of the least harmful Democrats in the U.S. Senate.
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