Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Bredesen Badmouths Obama and Hillary
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:28 AM
Gov. Phil Bredesen, apparently pouting because no one likes his idea for a superdelegate convention, now is trashing both Democratic candidates for president. He told the Philadelphia Inquirer, "What scares me the most this year is that this is a tough election and McCain has enormous appeal. It would be a tough race for either Democratic candidate in Tennessee. . . . That's sobering to me." Here's more from the article:
In an interview Friday, he said that position was illustrated by a conversation he had recently in a restaurant near Chattanooga, Tenn. "Four guys in a booth said, 'Phil, sit down, we voted for you,' and so I did," said the two-term governor, a moderate Democrat in a right-leaning state. "And one of them turns to me and says, 'We're all Democrats, who are you going to vote for? Hillary or Hussein?' "The governor also helpfully volunteered that Democrats running in Tennessee are distancing themselves from both Obama and Clinton. "One of the superdelegates said to me, 'I'm in a swing district and both of them are poison to me,' " Bredesen said. Gee, I wonder who that superdelegate was? The name Lincoln Davis springs to mind. Today in the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Bredesen added that he disagrees with Obama's remarks about small-town people, guns and religion. But he backtracked a little from the Inquirer interview, saying the guys in the restaurant were probably Republicans and that “it is certainly possible" for Obama or Clinton to win Tennessee in November.
