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Politics : President Barack Obama

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To: Smiling Bob who wrote (21745)5/16/2008 11:33:29 AM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
Perfect timing: Obama's super show-stoppers

news.yahoo.com

With her deep party ties, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was supposed to own the superdelegate primary.

But in the last two months, it's been the rookie, Democratic rival Barack Obama, who has maximized his superdelegate moments.

When new images of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "Goddamn" America sermon emerged in March, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was escorted to a stage to dub the Illinois senator a "once-in-a-lifetime leader" and steady the candidate.

In the aftermath of another staggering wave of Wright publicity, and after Obama was thrashed in the Pennsylvania primary, it was former Democratic National Committee chairman and one-time Clinton backer Joe Andrew's turn to stanch the bleeding, as Obama fought for a close finish in Andrew's home state of Indiana.

And then there was former presidential challenger John Edwards on stage this week in Michigan, endorsing Obama and putting the brakes on any momentum Clinton might have seized from her West Virginia primary rout
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