January 28, 2008 - 4:43pm
Weinberg says candidate should send former Prez home
By Max Pizarro
Tags: Linda Greenstein, Loretta Weinberg, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Cleopatra Tucker, Shirley Turner, Elease Evans, L. Grace Spencer
Women state legislators supporting Barack Obama for President stood together at Democratic State Committee headquarters in Trenton on Monday to put a collective exclamation point on their endorsement of the Illinois senator.
Senators Shirley Turner and Loretta Weinberg; and Assemblywomen Linda Greenstein, Elease Evans, Cleopatra Tucker and L. Grace Spencer said Obama is the candidate best equipped to deliver change.
"It’s not about being black and it’s not about being a woman, it’s about being a person who brings about attitude and inspiration," said Spencer.
Weinberg said based on former President Bill Clinton’s performance in South Carolina, Sen. Hillary Clinton should "send him back to Chappaqua."
Clinton’s comments included his likening Obama’s South Carolina showing to African American presidential contender Jesse Jackson’s successful 1980s efforts in the same state, where the Democratic Party electorate is at least 50% black.
Weinberg, a former town councilwoman in Teaneck, said, "I never let my husband go to our local council meetings," lest he rush to her defense in the face of public criticism.
Brendan Gilfillan, spokesman for the Clinton campaign in New Jersey, pointed out that Jackson himself today indicated he did not believe Clinton’s comments were out of bounds.
Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman, a supporter of Clinton's candidacy, likewise defended the former president.
"I think he should be on the campaign trail with his wife," she said. "I know Bill Clinton, and I know he wouldn't play the race card. What he plays is politics."
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Just curious...
Is Greenstein the only one of that crew who went to Obama after being snubbed as a Hillary delegate, or are there others?
Loretta W...has guts, good judgment like Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Kennedy's Credible Obama Endorsement Today
Caroline Kennedy's Obama Endorsement means the world to me and everyone who know her work, character and values ...Caroline is the real deal. I am so glad that I met her (not face to face) but Blue Eyes to Blue Eyes several years ago.
She is a Very caring, reflective, Unaffected, compassionate, effective, unforgettable and a proud Irish American women.
I'm Fired Up and Ready To Go!
and yes i said yes i will yes
last line of Ulysses by James JoYce
Greenstein is immaterial to this
Whether Greenstein was snubbed or not is anybody's guess, but what is for sure is that Obama is the character of change and Hillary is the status quo. 'Nuff said.
Hillary go home too.
I would go even further and asked Hillary to go home to Bill too.
Test will be February 5
Again I say if Clintonites cannot turnout their voters in Essex Huson, then Obama could very well end up losing the overall tally and winning the lionshare of delegates. What is happening in Essex and Huson? Its quiet in both places....What are the union leaders doing, the church leaders? Everybody's quiet which is telling. I don't care what Watson Coleman says, I think Black leaders who supported Clinton are conflicted, especially after the Bill Clinton Pre-South Carolina antics and these Kennedy endorsements.