Super delegate Sen. Russ Feingold is getting closer...closer....closer....
Super delegates, of course, get two votes in the primary race.
Feingold voted for Barack Obama in the primary election. Now, he says he's "highly inclined" to cast his vote as a super delegate for Obama.
Madison -- Sen. Russ Feingold voted for Sen. Barack Obama in Tuesday's presidential primary, and said today he would likely cast his ballot the same way as a super delegate at the Democratic National Convention in August.
Feingold, a Democrat from Middleton, said he voted for the Illinois senator over Sen. Hillary Clinton because of Obama's ability to motivate people and his long-standing opposition to the war in Iraq.
"It was a very difficult choice because they're both good," Feingold said. "They have different strengths, but in the end I just decided he seemed like a very interesting candidate who would be very exciting and also send a great message throughout the country and throughout the world."
So Feingold finds Obama very exciting. Sounds like he has Obama fever, too. Hope he doesn't faint.
Feingold said he was "highly inclined" to vote for Obama as a super delegate because he won the Wisconsin race.
...Feingold told the Journal Sentinel he recognized that Clinton had more experience than Obama and that he preferred Clinton's health-care plan. But he said he ultimately chose Obama, in part because of his opposition to the war.
Obama was not in the U.S. Senate when the war in Iraq was authorized in 2002, but he spoke out against it at the time.
"That's always been a huge point in his favor," Feingold said. "He could have stayed away from the subject as a candidate. He could have been less clear about it, but he was very clear about it, calling it a dumb war."
I think it's funny that Feingold isn't coming out and saying he WILL vote for Obama as a super delegate.
He's wishy-washy when it comes to declaring support for a candidate, yet he has no problem setting a specific date for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.
How can he be so certain about such a date yet he goes a bit limp when it comes to setting his commitment for Obama in stone?
Maverick Feingold is hesitant to abandon Hillary. He's doing his best to be on both sides of the fence. It's not surprising that Iraq policy is an important factor for Feingold. That was what his big issue during his failed attempt to run for president. (I wonder if he regrets all those days he spent in Iowa.)
I love the quote that Feingold chooses to give the eloquent Obama's position on Iraq. Obama did indeed say, "This is a dumb war, ...and we shouldn't fight it." He said that at his October 2007 rally in Madison.
"Dumb war" sounds like something a child would say, not a wannabe commander-in-chief.
Would Obama refer to Iraq as a "dumb war" while addressing a room full of Gold Star Mothers who lost their sons and daughters in Iraq?
Really, why would the skilled speaker Obama refer to the war in Iraq in such childish terms?
I suppose he's trying to appeal to voters.
He seems to have won over Feingold, almost.
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