Why would Murtha do this?
He knows Hillary can't win a nomination without overturning the delegates chosen by the people. With a tainted nomination, Hillary wouldn't be able to defeat McCain.
Obama can still win a clean nomination but it's far from certain that Hillary partisans will accept the legitimacy of his victory. Any of them who don't fall in line will be a great benefit to McCain.
Any Democrat who really cares about our nation's future and electing a Democrat in November would be endorsing Obama and working to grow his margin as large as possible to prove his legitimacy even to the most partisan Hillary backers.
To stay quiet is irresponsible but to endorse Hillary at this late date is shockingly abusive and undermines our viability as a party and the security of our nation's future.
Why would Rep. Murtha do that?
Typical pundit analysis. It's all about the horse race.
Could it possibly be that he feels that she'll be a better president?
Good Lord, if anyone endorses anyone but Obama, the world will certainly come to an end...
So, Murtha and the rest of the supers must endorse Obama or they don;t care about the party?
Comments like this just infuriate me. jack Murtha is shockingly abusive because he made up his own mind instead of doing what you wanted him to do?
I'm really hoping this is snark or otherwise the arrogance is off the charts.
Murtha's endorsement is pure political backstabbing and has nothing to do with the merits of Senators Clinton or Obama.
Murtha has been engaged in a (pardon the indelicacy) pissing match with Speaker Pelosi for quite some time now. Since Pelosi is leaning towards Senator Obama, Murtha does the opposite and goes for Senator Clinton.
Oh, well. That at least is a legitimate motive.
