Team Obama just announced that Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico is their latest backer, a big get from a state that Sen. Hillary Clinton captured on Super Tuesday.
Bingaman, who has served 26 years, is well-respected among his colleagues. He's chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and he voted against the Iraq war.
Here are portions of the release:
Senator Bingaman said, "Today, I am announcing my support for Barack Obama for president and declaring my intention to vote for him at the Democratic convention.
"Our nation faces a daunting number of critical challenges: reasserting America's leadership in the world, meeting our needs for energy independence, addressing global warming, making healthcare accessible and affordable, positioning our economy to effectively compete globally, and extricating ourselves from the war in Iraq, to name a few.
"To make progress, we must rise above the partisanship and the issues that divide us to find common ground. We must move the country in a dramatically new direction.
"I strongly believe Barack Obama is best positioned to lead the nation in that new direction."
— Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (3)
Dear Fellow Americans,
Our Great-grand Nation, the United States of America
is and will face very critical "Challenges" in coming
years and decades.
The Problems will be tough and solutions would not
easy.
The key will the cool, calm, and collectedness of our
next President[ What I call Presidential Temperament'
The one remaining candidate who has consistently that
Presidential Temperament is Senator Obama.
His message of change makes sense. We have to stop
doing business in Washington old ways. The new ways of
lifting each other up and stopping tearing each other
down will not held our Great grand Nation. The
Terrorists around the world[real] and inadvertently
assisted by some shortsighted media [Who are party to
this perpetuation of psychological terrorism of
mis-information, dis-information, and duplicity], that
is what we do not need.
In order to send the message around the world that
America is get Senator Obama our next president. At
least on thing he has shown consistently is the
presidential Temperament. The Temperament of our next
president is very critical address internal and
internal challenges. Let us defeat real external
terrorists snd internal psychological terrorists once
for all.
God Bless out Great grand Nation, its diverse people,
and Senator Obama. He is the ans her to our future
stability, security, safety, and regain our status in
the world.
Yours truly,
COL.[retd] A.M.Khajawall
Disables American Veteran.
Las Vegas Nevada.
Posted by COL.[retd]A.M.Khajawall | April 28, 2008 3:43 PM
Senator Bingaman is as good with words as Obama. We have yet to see how the "audacity of hope" is going to explicitly fufill the requirements in Senator Bingaman's endorsement speech. Both Obama's and Clinton's risk management abilities are seriously lacking as they leave no contingencies for failure, e.g. what to do if their cut and run strategy in Iraq brings about a worst case scenario for the Middle East? How about the food crisis created by a global warming state of fear decision on biofuels? All the presidential candidates endorse global warming, what are they going to do about their decisions to fight it costing lives, a precipitous withdrawal? Somehow I don't think the Congress is necessarily a good training ground for the presidency.
Posted by Larry Stone | April 29, 2008 3:34 AM
Despite his recent problems, Barack Obama is best positioned to lead us through the quagmire of gridlock that has gripped our country during the Bush-Clinton-Bush years. Hillary is ready to polarize from Day One. There is nothing anyone can do or say to change that reality.
Posted by Chuck Lauria | April 29, 2008 8:02 AM