Maybe because NARAL got swamped with negative calls and e-mails, unlike any other endorser?

Hey thats what NARAL has become anyway .

Why bother over it ?

Look there are better organizations out there .

Why risk being labelled as pro abortion lol.

I am sure if he is questioned about it he would say he didn't seek the endorsement.

Its more like touting the endorsement of moveon.org , thats NARAL for you.

There's a lot of internal strife within NARAL at the moment regarding the National Chapter's endorsement.

Obama probably doesn't want to announce it until they've sorted things out with their local chapters.  If they crowed about it, that would drive a wedge between the state/local NARAL people and his campaign even further.

Some Clinton supporters don't want to believe it, but Obama and his campaign have largely been very respectful of both the Clinton campaign and external groups that are pro-Clinton.  They realize that they need those supporters in the Fall.

Yep, NARAL f**ked up with their endorsement, because the local chapters did not agree with their national endorsement.  

Many local chapters have a page up stating that they do not endorse either candidate.

good for them.  I emailed by local chapter and thanked them for not blindly following the ill-advised national endorsement of NARAL.

Women are separate, but equal!

He has been playing this game all campaign, he really doesn't want to be identified with culture war issues from the 60s and 70s like women's or GLBT rights. Hence the present votes.

For too many on this site, every move by Obama is "badly played."  He could cure cancer and still get labeled "a show off."

The important thing here is the substance of the endorsement and Obama's 100% rating with organizations like NARAL and Planned Parenthood.

Well, hell NARAL endorses him and they get a ton of vicious correspondences, putting it front and center would just rub salt in the wounds of those that so vehemently disagreed with their endorsement.

Did you support NARAL's endorsement, and if so did you let them know?

If not, could you see this as trying not to shov eit in people's faces?

If I were Obama I probably wouldn't want someone who votes based on the way that endorsements announced to vote for me.

If you think all women are so shallow and vapid as to decide if they want to vote for Obama based on the fact that he didn't galavant around showing off his endorsement from NARAL then you probably SHOULD vote for McCain.

I imagine he's not making a lot of noise so that NARAL can deal with the problem, bad as it is internally, without his campaign adding more attention to it and making the whole thing worse for them.

Who knows?  Maybe they even asked him to.

What a bullshit diary.  Look at your two links, neither has the story of the Edwards endorsement.  The NARAL story first appeared in the main page of his website and when it was no longer current news it was moved to the woman's section.  

Where you learn that you cannot stand there while somebody tells a racist joke. Standing there means you are part of the problem. Walking out or denouncing the joke says you are part of the solution.

the diarist who shall not be named (who always gets rec'ed up the wazoo here) calls all women to arms to go to war with naral for their endorsement of obama......and you ask....why has the obama campaign not exploited this endorsement further??????????

sounds like the chewbacca defense to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUP5GzHIo jU

Get over it.

You seem obsessed with this idea that somehow you can divine evil intent and a lack of commitment to women's issues from the positioning of stuff on Obama's web site. Wasn't your last diary on this enough?

Where's the NARAL endorsement on Hillary's site?

Some more things for you to read:

Public Statements about Choice:

A selection of Sen. Obama's public statements on this issue is below.

"Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, it's never been more important to protect a woman's right to choose... Throughout my career, I've been a consistent and strong supporter of reproductive justice, and have consistently had a 100% pro-choice rating with Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America... I believe in and have supported common-sense solutions like increasing access to affordable birth control to help prevent unintended pregnancies... As President, I will improve access to affordable health care and work to ensure that our teens are getting the information and services they need to stay safe and healthy."
From a statement by Sen. Obama on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, January 22, 2008. Full statement is available here:

"You know, I think that most Americans recognize that this is a profoundly difficult issue for the women and families who make these decisions.  They don't make them casually. And I trust women to make these decisions in conjunction with their doctors and their families and their clergy."
[Transcript from Democratic Presidential Debate in South Carolina, MSNBC, April 26, 2007.]

"I strongly disagree with today's Supreme Court ruling, which dramatically departs from previous precedents safeguarding the health of pregnant women. As Justice Ginsburg emphasized in her dissenting opinion, this ruling signals an alarming willingness on the part of the conservative majority to disregard its prior rulings respecting a woman's medical concerns and the very personal decisions between a doctor and patient. I am extremely concerned that this ruling will embolden state legislatures to enact further measures to restrict a woman's right to choose, and that the conservative Supreme Court justices will look for other opportunities to erode Roe v. Wade, which is established federal law and a matter of equal rights for women."
[Statement from Sen. Obama on Supreme Court Decision upholding Federal Abortion Ban, April 18, 2007, http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/a rchives/2007/04/obama_decision.html (accessed May 4, 2007).]

"I explained my belief that few women made the decision to terminate a pregnancy casually; that any pregnant woman felt the full force of the moral issues involved and wrestled with her conscience when making that decision; that I feared a ban on abortion would force women to seek unsafe abortions, as they had once done in this country."
[Barack Obama, excerpt from The Audacity of Hope published in Time Magazine, October 15, 2006, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl e/0,9171,1546298,00.html (accessed April 28, 2008).]

http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/election s/statements/obama.html

Scraping the bottom of the outrage barrel, aren't we?

Many of the esteemed and oh-so-rational citizens on this particular site had a s@##-fit when NARAL endorsed him.  Maybe they don't want to subject NARAL to any additional blowback?

Nah, gotta go with the slime.

We all know why he doesn't emphasize it.  Because he doesn't have a passion for it, he doesn't get it, and he doesn't care.  Besides, as we know, you can't catch those reagan republicans with that kind of talk, or the bush republicans, or the Daddy bush republicans, or a lot of Independents.

Well, I got news for you Obama, if you don't find it important enough to talk about, you are going to have a hard time catching a lot of democrats especially a lot of the ones who make up the majority of your party.

You know what. I think here's the bottom line. You obviously care deeply about the issue. The election in November will between Barack Obama and John McCain. If you like McCain's placement of his pro-choice group endorsements on his web site better than you like Obama's, then you should not vote for Obama.