Clinton Explodes, Chills Out

These outbursts are becoming alarmingly frequent. I especially like the SFGate reportage on this one: "It was as if someone had pulled the pin from a grenade."

Superdelegate: "...one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended."

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Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal

wyomingtribune.com

Gov. Freudenthal endorses Barack Obama

CHEYENNE (WTE) - Gov. Dave Freudenthal today endorsed Barack Obama and pledged to cast his superdelegate vote for the Illinois senator at the Democratic National Convention in August.

Freudenthal had refrained from endorsing a candidate for several months, saying that none of the presidential hopefuls were engaged on issues important to the West.

The governor said that began to change in early March when both Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton visited Wyoming.

In announcing his endorsement, Freudenthal cited Obama's style of leadership, which includes an openness to reason and discussion, an attribute he said is particularly relevant to the West because the exact nature of particular issues that will be important to the region over the next four years is unknown.

"The negativity, partisanship and lack of purpose that characterize our national debate and government are crippling this country," Freudenthal said in a prepared statement Wednesday before a scheduled news conference. "While no one individual can effect this change alone, the change must begin with someone. Senator Obama is the Democratic candidate with the openness, honesty and skill to end this vicious cycle of business as usual."

Freudenthal said his endorsement was largely uninfluenced by Obama's victory in the Wyoming caucuses on March 8, when Obama secured 61 percent of the vote.

The governor said he spoke with Obama on Tuesday night to inform him of his decision.

For more details, see Thursday's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle.

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Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commission

latimes.com

Barack Obama gets former Rep. Lee Hamilton's endorsement

In what could prove both a significant addition to his foreign policy credentials and a boost for the close Indiana primary, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois this afternoon scored the endorsement of former Rep. Lee Hamilton, one of the Democratic Party's leading foreign affairs experts.

Hamilton, a 35-year House member from Indiana, which holds its presidential primary May 6, chaired the Committee on Foreign Affairs and co-chaired both the 9/11 commission and the Iraq Study Group.

?I read his national security and foreign policy speeches," Hamilton told Bloomberg News today, "and he comes across to me as pragmatic, visionary and tough. He impresses me as a person who wants to use all the tools of presidential power.?

The backing of Hamilton, who was said to be on the list of possible vice presidential partners for Bill Clinton in 1992, could help Obama, who's been criticized for his foreign policy inexperience.

Both his Democratic presidential competitor, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, and the Republicans' presumptive nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who has many years of foreign policy experience, have attacked some Obama foreign policy statements.

Hamilton said he particularly agreed with Obama's stand on meeting with adversarial foreign leaders without preconditions and on Obama favoring possible unilateral military action against terrorist hideouts, although in the case of Pakistan that would be attacking a staunch ally.

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