MyDD :: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama [UPDATED]

Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama [UPDATED]

by lizardbox, Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:03:42 AM EST

The Oregonian reports Congressmen Peter Defazio has endorsed Senator Barack Obama in his bid for the Democratic nomination for POTUS.

This is a snippet:

Tonight Rep. Peter DeFazio became Oregon's third Democratic congressman to endorse Sen.Barack Obama, putting the Illinois politician one delegate closer to the presidential nomination.

DeFazio said that Obama, who will begin a two-day campaign trip to the state Friday morning, "represents our best chance of winning in November."

"We must not allow Senator McCain to continue the failures of the Bush foreign policy, war in Iraq and disastrous economic policies," DeFazio added.

According to the Politico Superdelegate Counter, DeFazio is the 3rd superdelegate from Oregon to endorse Obama, joining Rep. Earl Blumenauer and Rep. David Wu.

Seven Oregon superdelegates remain undeclared.

UPDATE: Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ) switched from Clinton to Obama. This is the ninth time that a superdelegate withdraws their support from Clinton to endorse Obama.

Tags: Obama, DeFazio, Superdelegate, Endorsement (all tags)

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Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama (2.00 / 2)

Drip.

by cherrygarcia on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:05:22 AM EST

Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama (2.00 / 2)

And the only superdelegate Clinton's got recently is from the congressional district she won in NC, right?

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:08:02 AM EST

Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama (2.00 / 2)

The day she got that one someone switched, so it canceled it out.

I'm all for 3-4 a day instead of all at once.

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by lizardbox on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:10:40 AM EST
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Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama (2.00 / 2)

Absolutely. I'd be all for a very cathartic pace on the whole thing, let KY, OR, SD, MT vote and drive voter registration and Democratic infrastructure if it didn't seem like Clinton was bound and determined to destroy everything if she's not the nominee.

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:13:14 AM EST
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Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama (2.00 / 2)

She got one from NC because she won his district and I believe one from Indiana for the same reason. Tonight/tomorrow she is picking up one from Pennsylvania whose district she also won. She also lost one from Virginia. So overall she's +2 since tuesday and Obama is now +7 with DeFazio.

Proudly joining the legions of people and states that don't matter on May 20th.

by Obama Independent on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:16:32 AM EST
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Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama (2.00 / 2)

The guy from IN said he was thinking of voting for her because of her win in his CD "unless I have a good reason not to"
He asked not to be counted as a Clinton SD

by Benjaminomeara on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:21:49 AM EST
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Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama (2.00 / 1)

Oh, so that's why Demcom is withholding that endorsement from her column. I was wondering what he had said.

by The Distillery on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:45:55 AM EST
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Not quite my friend (2.00 / 1)

she kind of got one from IN (Brad Ellsworth)
However the diary is missing a defection from Hillary to Obama of One Rep. Donald Payne NJ-10

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by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:23:34 AM EST
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Re: Not quite my friend (2.00 / 1)

Hey, do something about this if you could:

http://www.mydd.com/comments/2008/5/8/23 239/43807/92/post#here

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:26:36 AM EST
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What about it? (none / 0)

Do you want some mojo, or me to actually drop a kitty or 5 (see the rodhamclintonfeh diary for my leet kitty/whiner posting skillz).

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by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:32:25 AM EST
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Re: What about it? (2.00 / 1)

Maybe rate that comment as you see fit. And add any rejoinders you feel appropriate.

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:33:31 AM EST
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I added a parade of cats (none / 0)

also check out the site lolfail.com

Lots of good pictures to post about epic fail

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by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:48:44 AM EST
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Re: I added a parade of cats (2.00 / 1)

Indeed.

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:49:13 AM EST
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I am sad that (none / 0)

some of them got cut off, and my time was slow, I can do better if I do an epic fail parade.

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by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:55:24 AM EST
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Re: I am sad that (2.00 / 1)

Stupid question but...

how do you post images?

I have no clue. Thanks guys.

by cherrygarcia on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:57:20 AM EST
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I use the handy (none / 0)

tool over at Dkos,

It is something akin to:

<.img src="http://www.lolfail.com/wp-content/upload s/2007/12/fail2it9.jpg" alt="" title="" />

without the dot before image

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by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:06:03 AM EST
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Re: I use the handy (none / 0)

one doesn't even need the alt or title tags. Just <.img src="url here">

without the dot before img of course.

by Skaje on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:23:31 AM EST
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Wow that is easier (none / 0)

but the Dkos tool is very handy just copy/paste in the url and copy/paste the html and bam picture.

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by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:24:41 AM EST
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Awesome... (2.00 / 2)

I just voted for DeFazio in the 4th District today. He's voted against the war in 2002 and is a strong supporter of brining our troops home. It was only a matter of time before he was going to endorse Obama. I guess he was waiting 'til our ballots were mailed out. Nice work!

by froggyman on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:14:12 AM EST

Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama (2.00 / 2)

Hell yeah, my congressman endorsed! There is going to be an Obama ralley at U of O tomorrow. I was thinking of not going since I went to the one in March, but if DeFazio is gonna be there maybe I'll go.

Proudly joining the legions of people and states that don't matter on May 20th.

by Obama Independent on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:14:16 AM EST

Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama (2.00 / 2)

For the record, Obama is now 6 SD away from getting the majority among superdelegates too

by Benjaminomeara on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:22:13 AM EST

ABC News has him already ahead. (none / 0)

It's their top headline this morning.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/ 2008/05/obama-now-takes.html

John McCain supports privatizing Social Security.

by Travis Stark on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:21:49 AM EST
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Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama (2.00 / 2)

How long until a Clinton supporter comes in to remind us that nothing is official until the convention?

by cherrygarcia on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:23:48 AM EST

Could you update and add (2.00 / 1)

the NJ super that endorsed Obama, (link is in True Independent's diary over at Dkos.

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by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:24:22 AM EST

Done. Thanks! (2.00 / 2)

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PUMA: Perverse Undemocratic McCain Adherents

by lizardbox on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:33:36 AM EST
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Just Thought I'd Add the Quote (2.00 / 2)

Rep. Donald Payne (D-10th Dist.), a New Jersey superdelegate who had been supporting Hillary Clinton for president, has switched his allegiance to Barack Obama.

"After careful consideration, I have reached the conclusion that Barack Obama can best bring about the change that our country so desperately wants and needs," Payne told The Star-Ledger for today's editions. It was "one of the most difficult decisions I have made," Payne said. "I've really been mulling it over for quite a while."

With Payne's switch Obama has the backing of five of New Jersey's 20 superdelegates. Clinton has 11, including Gov. Jon Corzine; three are uncommitted and one who has backed Clinton is wavering.

By announcing his support for Obama now, Payne said he hopes to help unite the party so it can focus on defeating Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, in November.

"At this particular time we need to really unite behind one candidate," Payne said. "It's time now for us to pull our party together. The quicker it's over, the better we'll be able to bring all of our forces together."

/Star-Ledger

Obama supporter who is damn glad Hillary Clinton is a Democrat!!

by hootie4170 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:41:51 AM EST
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Thanks for adding it (2.00 / 1)

I am too snarky now to compose a decent diary...

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by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:49:26 AM EST
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Re: Thanks for adding it (2.00 / 2)

How ya been SG?? Missed ya while you were gone!!

Obama supporter who is damn glad Hillary Clinton is a Democrat!!

by hootie4170 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:02:16 AM EST
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Good I was helping out with (2.00 / 1)

spring planting.

It was nice except for unloading the 3 tons of DDGs (a byproduct of corn ethanol used as a feed source for livestock, it also is really dusty hence why I didn't like unloading it)

Student Guy=JoeMentum. No really Student Guy=JoeMentum, after all JoeMentum was an embarrassment so is Student Guy. This sig is FAIL!!

by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:07:49 AM EST
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Re: Good I was helping out with (2.00 / 2)

Glad to have you back..

Obama supporter who is damn glad Hillary Clinton is a Democrat!!

by hootie4170 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:11:36 AM EST
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Re: Good I was helping out with (2.00 / 2)

That poor freeper troll's diary was deleted a minute ago, but to answer your question:

To do the strikeout thingy, use this tag: <s>words</s>

For the longest time, I couldn't figure out how to do it. I kept trying to use the traditional HTML tags, but it didn't work. But I think SluggoJD explained it. He uses it a lot when he does those "Karl Rove's friend" diaries.

I think I'm starting to like our buddy ilovebillnot. He's always good for a bit of entertainment. That diary wasn't as funny/offensive as usual, though. Losing his touch, I suppose.

Even John McCain lusts after teh engels.

by sricki on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:24:43 AM EST
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Thanks sricki (2.00 / 1)

greatly appreciated, the next diary by rodhamclintonfeh will have some amazing wit in it's comments if I am around by then.

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by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:29:09 AM EST
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No problem. (2.00 / 1)

I certainly hope you're around. It's kinda dull around here when no one's posting FAIL pics. No blog should be without those.

Even John McCain lusts after teh engels.

by sricki on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:31:22 AM EST
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Well (none / 0)

I am going to be less active due to summer term then in July-August I'll most likely be gone.

Ragekage brings the fail pics pretty good (though he is a bit less diplomatic than I am in my opinion, I'll even give up my secret stash link of fail pics to you so you can post them where appropriate...

www.lolfail.com

Student Guy=JoeMentum. No really Student Guy=JoeMentum, after all JoeMentum was an embarrassment so is Student Guy. This sig is FAIL!!

by Student Guy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:40:14 AM EST
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Re: Well (2.00 / 1)

Ah, well, hopefully ilovebillnot will return at least once more before you leave. I'm actually supposed to be moving at the beginning of June, but there seems to be a certain amount of confusion over whether my new apartment will really be available... it better be. Definitely not in the mood to set up camp in a hotel.

Even John McCain lusts after teh engels.

by sricki on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:49:22 AM EST
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Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses Obama [UPD (2.00 / 2)

My Congressman....Go Peter!

by gorebeatbush2 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:43:40 AM EST

He shouldn't have done that (none / 0)

I'm sorry but Oregon is too critical.

I watching Obama act like he's got the nomination and the Obama campaign doing this crap for months and you have no idea what an outrageous turn off it is for me.

Now DeFazio, who usually has integrity does this.

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by Robert Oak on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:18:28 AM EST

Re: He shouldn't have done that (2.00 / 2)

huh?

by Skaje on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:24:55 AM EST
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Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses (2.00 / 2)

At this point, even seating MI and FL according to the January results isn't going to stop the flow of superdelegates to Obama.

He'll get the Utah add-on tomorrow as well. It's very possible he passes Clinton among superdelegates by the end of the weekend.

262 to 268.5 (the half superdelegate being a Democrats Abroad one).

by Skaje on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:27:36 AM EST

Re: Oregon Congressman DeFazio Endorses (2.00 / 1)

I was pissed about that DA endorsement. I think the margin with DA was like 2-1 Obama or something?

by The Distillery on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:50:34 AM EST
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