Dick Gephardt Endorses Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton will pick up a key endorsement today from former presidential candidate and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, The Raw Story and Associated Press report. Gephardt, who won the Iowa caucus in 1988 but finished fourth in 2004, could bolster Hillary's support in the key caucus state. Gephardt's strong ties to many organized labor groups may also be helpful to the Clinton campaign.
Comments (9)
cscs wrote on July 5, 2007 11:23 AM:Zzzzzzzzzzzz.......
Oh, I'm sorry. I can't imagine having slept through the excitement of a Gephardt endorsement.
"Thank God George Bush is our president." -Rudy Giuliani
mopper8 wrote on July 5, 2007 11:26 AM:From Ryan Lizza over at The New Republic's blog, The Plank
GEPHARDT TO ENDORSE HRCGhost of Tom Joad wrote on July 5, 2007 11:30 AM:Considering that Dick Gephardt is now a Washington lobbyist, and therefore can't even donate money to the Obama campaign, and considering that he passed up the opportunity to endorse John Edwards back in 2004, this press release just sent out by the Clinton campaign is hardly a surprise:
Hillary Clinton will receive a campaign endorsement from Former Congressman Richard Gephardt on a conference call today (Thursday, July 5, 2007) at 1:00 p.m. EDT.
In a so-called "change election," endorsements for Hillary from yesterday's DC politicians are not the worst thing for Obama and Edwards.
--Ryan Lizza
Does anyone, besides the David Brooks and David Broders of the world, care who Dick Gephardt endorses? Do you think labor is gonna take his word, over looking at her record? And her hiring people like Mark Penn?
Blue in IA wrote on July 5, 2007 11:32 AM:1988 was ... 20 years ago? Iowa may be a bit behind the times, but please! In the 2004 caucus I attended, the Gephardt contingent vanished faster than the Wes Clark die hards and the Al Sharpton contrarians. Obama is a more convincing local/regional hero at this point than Gephardt.
File this one under "favorite son" Vilsack-reportage about Iowa by people who know next to nothing about Iowa.
hadenough wrote on July 5, 2007 11:33 AM:NOT from tnr or any other liberal pretender mag:
Former senator, top Obama advisor and lobbiest Thomas A. Daschle says Obama is the greatest.
See how that works?
Hillary The Liberal Label Without Progressive Values wrote on July 5, 2007 11:49 AM:Didn't you get the memo Hilllary is the change candidate.. her banners say so (SNARK)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwTECansVdI
benjoya wrote on July 5, 2007 12:56 PM:this will help her with the pro-war faction of the party, if she hasn't sewn up that bloc already. gephardt was singluarly valuable to bush in getting the dems on board for the iraq catastrophuck.
taylorm wrote on July 5, 2007 1:03 PM:I got this tip very early this morning. I'm a neutral observer in the primary race, but that said, this is a good endorsement for Clinton, especially in key primary states and among primary voters. Gephardt's union support is real, as is his support for universal health care. It also makes a lot of sense if you look at what Gephardt and Clinton have in common. He's also been advising the campaign for a while.
Ghost of Tom Joad wrote on July 5, 2007 1:18 PM:Yeah .. they both despise Howard Dean. As, I believe, you stated on your web site, it was Gephardt's campaign who made that Dean/Bin Laden ad.
