This is Casey's way of doing two things
1- Sticking it to the Clintons for denying his father the 1992 speaking slot because he and Daddy are anti-choice and Bill Clinton decided you know as Democrats we are the pro-choice party
2- Being as relevant as Ed Rendell who absolutlely destroyed him in the 2002 Democratic primary for Governor
Oh right, I'd forgotten about '92, good call.
Purchase that HUGE house that Wright is going to retire into?
Does anyone know?
When they were millions of dollars in debt?
Let's see those tax returns.
Nice post....u are so right!
So Now mydd and other Clinton supporters are bashing ANOTHER prominent democratic leader for not supporting Sen Clinton?
What is WITH you guys. Breaking blue? Na...all you want is it to break for YOU
And I am fed up with this blog's use of the old McCarthy tactic of guilt by association.
You ought to know better, Jerome.
I'll visit and read your used-to-be excellent, thoughtful posts when the nominee is chosen, perhaps in June.
this is what happens when all the NO QUARTER blog 5-year olds start sending Jerome emails about what a wonderful job he's doing. the professionalism and balance is disappearing. i was a lurker here and there before i became angered by the constant Obama bashing all the time always. and now they're coming here. i am a progressive who was called a troll and an ENEMY at No Quarter because i caucused for Obama in WA State. it's disgusting..... these are the 22%-ers who will NOT vote for Obama if he is the nominee. they are so hate-filled it is indescribable.
Nice...my sentiments exactly! Thanks for your post!
ah another dkos freeper, try to leave the Flush talking points back in that swamp please.
Reading some of the diaries here is like visiting another planet. There just seems to be no connection to reality.
There is a measure of how the voters feel regarging Obama and Clinton. It is called polling.
NBC/WSJ has Hillary with a net negative perception among voters.
Gallup Daily tracking has her behind by 8 points.
We are just walking through the motions for about another 3 weeks.
So why should he have gotten a speaking spot in 1992?
To be fair, and I say this as a fan of Casey, his dad didn't get a speaking slot because he refused to endorse the ticket. Which, I would add, is 100% reasonable irrespective of one's views on choice.
Yeah, people do get that story wrong all the time.
However, I bet that it will be retold and retold. It plays to the perception that the Clintons can play quite rough, even against people in their own party. If PA voters like that, it helps Clinton. If not, it hurts her.
But it also reveals the split between different big players in the PA political establishment. And Casey and his dad are more popular than Rendell. Look for Casey to cut some ads for him.
These parts of Casey's reasons to support Obama were all pretty interesting and will be part of his political argument:
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_upd ate/20080328_Bob_Casey_to_endorse_Obama_ _join_bus_tour.html "Casey sees Obama as an "underdog" in the campaign who sacrificed at the beginning of his career to be a community organizer "in the shadows of the closed steel mills in Chicago," said a source close to Casey who is familiar with the endorsement decision but was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
The source, reached by The Inquirer yesterday, said that Casey was also impressed with how Obama had stood up to the pressures of the campaign, including recent attacks over the racially incendiary remarks of his former pastor.
Casey's decision was also personal, motivated in part by the enthusiasm his four daughters - Elyse, Caroline, Julia and Marena - have expressed for Obama, the source said. "He thinks we shouldn't be deaf to the voices of the next generation."
Casey and his dad are more popular than Rendell?
that is soooooo nuts.
i worked pa in 92 and 06.
in 92, the Casey - Clinton blood fued began.
jr's a senator only because of the anti- santorum fever.
renddell totally crushd him when they ran against each other.
Casey, despite being a terrible campaigner consistently breaks statewide records in terms of votes. He, and his late father, are immensely popular here (for reasons I admit, I don't grasp.)
thin margin..
I don't think ANYONE expects her to win big, but its essential that she be the Democratic nominee because a LOT of Obama's support from GOP crossover voters will wither away once the nominee is picked, everybody knows that.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/28/1254 3/9554
people are running around here saying it will be a 20% blow out.
Also she kinda needs at least 20% to start gaining enough delegates.
