U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd Endorses Obama

February 27, 2008

(Long Island, N.Y.) A week before crucial primaries in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont leading Democratic Party candidate Senator Barrack Obama received a boost in his campaign with the support of former rival Senator Christopher Dodd who announced his decision to endorse Obama in a press conference.

Conn. Senator Christopher Dodd ran for the same nomination which Obama now holds a comfortable lead over NY Senator Hilary Clinton but rescinded his campaign after early struggles in the first 3 primaries for the Democratic Party nomination to the White House. He served as a representative for Connecticut from 1975 to 1981 when he became a US senator. He now holds the distinction as the longest serving senator for the state of Connecticut.

In a press conference, Dodd said of Obama and the Democratic Party in general, “I don’t want a campaign that is divisive here, and there’s a danger in that, Obama is ready to be president and I am ready to support him in this campaign. He has been poked and prodded, analyzed and criticized, called too green, too trusting and for all of that has already won more than half the states and millions of votes. It’s now the hour to come together… This is the moment for Democrats and independents and others to come together, to get behind this candidacy,” he said.

On Tuesday night, NBC news together with Cleveland State University, the city of Cleveland and the Democratic Party held a send-off 90 minute debate between Senator Clinton and Senator Obama a week before the two candidates wage battle at Texas and Ohio primaries. Political experts agree that Clinton needs to win both primaries to stay in the race for the Democratic Party nomination. Both candidates agree that they would have to use opting out of the NAFTA treaty as a substantial threat to renegotiate a new agreement which would be beneficial to the US. “I will say, we will opt out of NAFTA unless we renegotiate it, and we renegotiate it on terms that are favorable to all of America,” Clinton said of the 1994 deal with Canada and Mexico.

“I will make sure that we renegotiate in the same way that Senator Clinton talked about, and I think actually Senator Clinton’s answer on this one is right,” Obama replied agreeing with Senator Clinton on the NAFTA issue. Political experts from MSNBC stated that while Clinton appeared agitated at times, Obama displayed his usual calm, collective, and firm stance at the debate appearing more presidential than ever before. The debate in Ohio was the 20th debate for Clinton and Obama.

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