Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal Endorses Obama
Wyoming Governor and superdelegate Dave Freudenthal endorsed Barack Obama today — the 11th superdelegate endorsement that Barack has received since March 4th.
CHICAGO, IL — Wyoming Governor and Democratic superdelegate Dave Freudenthal today endorsed Barack Obama, citing his history of putting partisanship aside to bring people together across party lines and focus on common-sense solutions.
"The negativity, partisanship and lack of purpose that characterize our national debate and government are crippling this country," Governor Freudenthal said. "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 was elected Governor in 2002 and reelected in 2006. As a popular Democrat in one of the most traditionally Republican states in the country, Freudenthal knows how essential it is for Democrats to be able to articulate a vision that appeals to voters across the ideological spectrum, and to demonstrate a willingness to listen to people on all sides of the debate.
"Governor Freudenthal has shown the pundits and the talking heads that there isn't anyplace in this country where Democrats can't win if we bring people together and focus on the issues that matter to them," Senator Obama said. "I look forward to working with Dave to deliver the kind of change that folks in the West are looking for: making health care affordable, providing a world-class education for every child, and investing in a clean energy future to create jobs, protect the environment, and wean this country off of foreign oil."
Senator Obama won the Wyoming caucuses on March 8 with 61 percent of the vote.
MSNBC News reports that Governor Freudenthal is the 11th superdelegate to endorse Obama since March 4; during the same time period Senator Clinton has picked up one superdelegate endorsement.
1 comment:
Excellent choice, Governor Freudenthal.
Here are my comments:As I travel from city to city in the US, I am confronted, yet touched,
with the deep despair etched on people's faces I observe in stores, on
sidewalks, in businesses. When I listen to the stories people share
with me, I realize we have come to a point unprecedented in the 6 decades
of my own life. Those older than I am tell me that the picture I am
now seeing was all too familiar during WWII and in the Great Depression
era.
Asian expatriates who have settled here in the last 15 years tell me
that they caution their friends and family members to avoid coming to
the States. There is increasing violent crime in our cities Domestic
violence which is often a reflection of economic and political
displacement is becoming epidemic. Families more often have no healthcare. An
illness can mean loss of one's home and overwhelming stress for
families. Preventative care is now for the wealthy and the poor must wait
until the severity of an illness sends them in crisis to an overwhelmed
emergency room. Costs for basic services to homes and apartments are
increasing. Gas prices continue to edge up often beyond the comfortable
reach of those commuting to two jobs in their effort to pay their bills
and feed their families. Children are manifesting the stress felt by
their families and besieged school teachers are noting the phenomenom:
the outcome of a society gone astray through the myopic,
ill-conceived political and economic domestic and international
policy. The United States is suffering from non-benign neglect by those who
are sitting in Washington DC. The funds that should be directed in
stimulating a tired, stressed society is being spent on tribal wars and
post modern colonialism abroad. The middle class is becoming an
endangered species and democracy, natively depending on a strong middle class,
is also on the endangered list. The 'free press' which is also a
correlate of democracy isn't free and impartial but encumbered with the
dictates of corporate interests.
The mortgage debacle is the result of more myopia and it is
debilitating not only people unable to afford their homes but it is
destabilizing states and munipalities throughout our nation. America has caught
one of the worst maladies since the Depression and the question that
emerges is: who can catch us in this precipitous fall?
The next president, if he confronts the present reality, will
need every bit of courage and wisdom to help a troubled nation
transcend the errors and tragedy of the past 7 years.
This poor, tired world is speaking volumes if we could only listen.
Lifetimes are all too brief and as the saying goes, "too soon old, too
late wise". We are such fragile beings on this earth and our lives so
vulnerable to the capriciousness of our individual fate. We believe
we have dominion over the earth and yet, the earth prevails as each of
us breathes out our inevitably last breaths. Human pomp and arrogance
observed on the stage of our lives disappear like ocean waves over the
sandcastles on a wind-swept beach. Our presence on earth becomes like
footprints in the sand, eventually forgotten or covered up by time
itself.
Yet, I hold great hope for daybreak and light on the horizon of years
to follow this era. For our young, I hope for a leader of rare
integrity and wisdom who is able to transcend the delusion that emanates from
power. A leader who pores out his soul in a book and inspires
a philosophic renaissance in our young. Such a leader would be wise
enough to maintain the separation of church and state that our
forefathers placed within the architecture of our Constitution: the preservation
of civil liberties, tolerance for diversity, creating equal respect
for all religions without bias for one. Such a leader has walked in the
shoes of the common man or woman and is not alienated from himself or
herself but rather sees the whole of mankind the tapestry from which he
or she is intimately part of.
They say "it is always the darkest before the dawn" and I look to the
horizon for light and for a day when those with power become the
humble servants of their better selves.
It is time for Barack Obama to lead. Just one light can dispel the darkness and may Barack be that light.
D. Lopez
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