Dick Harpootlian, a.k.a. the Mouth of the South, is famous for having said he didn’t want to buy the black vote; he just wanted to rent it for a day.
Apparently, Barack Obama has managed to entice him into a longer-term relationship. Here’s what the Charleston paper had to say about that today:
A former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party said Monday he would throw his support behind presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
"I see in Barack Obama … the same magnetism I saw in Bill Clinton," said Dick Harpootlian, who met with the Illinois senator during his first campaign visit to this early voting state Friday.
Harpootlian’s announcement came as New York Sen. Hillary Clinton made her first campaign trek through South Carolina. Harpootlian, who has in the past called Clinton a polarizing political figure, downplayed his comments Monday and said she or any of the Democratic candidates would make a fine president.
But he said Obama was the embodiment of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that people be judged by their character, not their skin color.
Harpootlian said he would immediately begin fundraising for Obama.
"I think it will be easy to raise money for him," he said.
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Obama’s lack of experience makes me cautious. Yet he does have a great deal of charisma and appears to be very intelligent. I’ll keep my mind open but for now I’m a John Edwards supporter.
With a lot of effort Obama may be able to overcome Harpo’s endorsement in the African-American community.
RTH, in all communities I’m afraid.
Bud, I’m not worried about the experience issue. His judgement is what I trust. Any poiltician to admit, void of nuance, his past mistakes like using drugs gets my vote. Even the “straight shooting” McCain has lost alot of this luster and his kisses conservative fanny.
Obama 08!
Harpootlian is not for the American People.
He is a traitor to America for suporting Obama.
Obama is destroying America with his and Nancy PigLosi’s anti America policies.
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA and help the Republicans undue the damage that PigLosi and Obama has done to this beautfiful Country.