Joan Baez endorses Obama

[MH1]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/3/20566/45541/323/449185

:)


Edit to add:

also Paul Volcker:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/3/182058/4630/408/449116

Obama's racking them up.

[ralbertson]

1. The Baez endorsement in particular impressed me, because...

Endorsements are a tricky thing, they can either be meaningless or very meaningful depending on who's making them, when they're made, why they're made, and most important, *how* they're made.

This one just blew me away -- because of who it comes from, why it's coming at this time, and most important, how it was delivered.

This wasn't done on a rally stage, at a press conference, on camera, or even in a guest op-ed piece published in a high-profile paper. It quietly appeared as just another one of a series of ordinary letters-to-the-editor replies to a piece the Chron had published earlier in the week, the same kind of LTTE that you or I might have written.

No matter how one may feel about the person being endorsed here, I think the quotidian delivery channel used in this particular instance says a great deal about the person who made the endorsement, and adds a lot of credence to the meaning of her words as well as pointing up the unprecedented nature of her making an endorsement at all.

[Inuca]

2. Much as I love Baez

and wonderful and heartfelt as her letter is, I think that Volcker's endorsement is the heavy-weight, the one tha can pull a punch now and later (GE). Things are looking so good, that the "glass half empty" part of me is getting scared :-)....

[ralbertson]

3. Yes, but consider it in context.

You, like me, are a political junkie and something of a policy wonk. We know who Volcker is and what that means. But Volcker is still a card-carrying member of the old-school establishment political machine.

But Joanie has never endorsed anybody, anytime, ever, no matter what, no matter how great the temptation. And she is practically the very dictionary definition of the old-school non-establishment political non-machine. When Obama can garner the endorsements of two such diametrically-opposed, conceptually-antithetical personae in the same week -- well, now!

You know, I'm coming to think that there really might be something there -- and, if he keeps this up, I might just end up having to vote for that young chap after all...

:0)

[Inuca]

4. I agree, the juxtaposition of the two is a stunner

in Senate terms is like Kennedy/Kerry vs. Ben Nelson :-). My point was simply that Volcker can be thrown in the face of those who now and hopefully later will bring up the "not enough substance/experience" argument, especially in the all important economic issues. And Volker is a heavyweight in more ways than one.

[ginnyinWI]

5. can't keep track of them all!

Does anybody know where a list of endorsements can be found?