Democrats won’t admit they’ve been endorsed by Obama
President Obama’s endorsement is a lot like herpes. A lot of Democrats have it, but none of them want to admit it.
President Obama’s endorsement is a lot like herpes. A lot of Democrats have it, but none of them want to admit it.
Politico.com has the story of the rapidly spreading Presidential virus:
Rep. Paul Kanjorski and Rep. John Spratt and some guy they've never heard of
Late last week, President Barack Obama endorsed dozens of House Democratic incumbents and candidates across the political map. The news was easy to miss, however, because so few of them sought to publicize their presidential seal of approval…
Some went so far as to make clear that they didn’t seek the endorsement.
“We haven’t put it on the website or in press releases,” said Wil Brown, campaign manager for House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt, who occupies a conservative-oriented South Carolina district. “I doubt we’ll use it in the campaign.”
Lindsay Fritchman, spokeswoman for Democrat Manan Trivedi, who is running for a suburban-Philadelphia-based district where Obama won 58 percent of the vote, said the campaign had determined it would not actively highlight the endorsement and that, “We think the president’s word is very powerful on its own.”
“Who me? Endorsed by Obama? Obama who? I’m not really familiar with that name.”
