*Hillary Picks Up Superdelegate AND Largest South Dakota Newspaper Endorses Hillary**

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*Hillary Picks Up Superdelegate AND Largest South Dakota Newspaper Endorses Hillary**

Edited on Fri May-30-08 06:30 PM by indimuse

Largest South Dakota Newspaper Endorses Hillary

Despite Obama's claim of inevitability and invisibility, some folks aren't buying the company line and continue endorsing Hillary Clinton.

The largest newspaper in South Dakota today enthusiastically endorsed Sen. Clinton.

In endorsing her, the Argus writes that Hillary is "the strongest Democratic candidate for South Dakota.

Her mastery of complex policy detail is broad and deep, and her experience as a senator and former first lady matches that.

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Clinton's energy policy is forward thinking and wise. She advocates a broad federal research initiative to help solve our looming oil crisis. It's a plan that would join university researchers, private industry and individual inventors behind a common goal.

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Clinton has demonstrated a real commitment to Native American issues and will have visited several South Dakota reservations before the race is over. Clinton is precisely correct when she says that people outside the region have a poor understanding of the troubling trends on our reservations. Federal attention could help. That includes but is not limited to higher-ranking posts in the federal bureaucracy.

Her truly universal health care plan would be welcomed by thousands of South Dakotans. Even on reservations, where health care is nominally universal already, such a plan would be welcome. The federal government would never be allowed to subject everyday Americans to the kind of care Native Americans living on reservations routinely receive.

Argus Leader acknowledges that Obama is a powerful speaker with a lot of pretty words in his rhetorical arsenal. But since Barky has no real resume to speak of -- it was the only good point they could write about and left it at that.

H/T The Confluence.http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/

Update: Another tip of the hat, this one going to Lambert of Corrente; he correctly observes how Argus, the same newspaper that interviewed Hillary last week didn't think too much of "the baseless, defamatory, and grotesque charges propagated by the NY Post and the Obama campaign" as evidenced by their endorsement of Hillary.
http://www.correntewire.com/the_argus_interview_creating_our_own_reality_big_lies_and_crossing_the_line

// posted by Howling Latina @ 9:38 AM 5 comments http://howlinglatina.blogspot.com/

Hillary Picks Up Superdelegate
Still trickling in, Hillary picked up another superdelegate; this one from Washington.

The Seattle Times reports that Eileen Macoll, vice chairwoman of the state Democratic Party made the surprising endorsement yesterday.http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/365172_delegate30.html?source=mypi

"I think Hillary Clinton would be the best commander in chief to get us out of this mess in Iraq," Macoll said.

Macoll said she was spurred to announce her endorsement by her reaction to Memorial Day.

"I just got very emotional this Memorial Day weekend," she said. "This war just makes me sick."

Any delegate worth their super status has to know that with Hillary as the Democratic presidential candidaet, chances of a Dem win are 100 percent. With Obama, drops to 47.2 percent.

H/T Talk Left.