The first one was a quote by Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio (D), who is locked into a very tight contest between himself, independent Lincoln Chafee (who leads in the polls), and Republican John Robitaille, who trails them both. Interestingly, Caprio is widely viewed as more conservative than Chafee, but apparently still liberal enough to seek an endorsement from President Obama. After failing to get the president's endorsement, Caprio is now distancing himself from Obama. Caprio said to a Rhode Island radio station -- and defended his remarks during last night's debate -- that Obama "can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I'm concerned."
Furthermore, since Obama passed him up, Caprio is now touting an endorsement from Bill Clinton.
President Obama's latest partisan quote is sending quite the message. After being elected as a uniter and preaching incessant punchlines of "hope and change" from partisan politics, Obama is sounding much more divisive.
"We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back," President Obama said to crowd of staunch supporters of his policies. (Yahoo! News seems to be one of the few (if not the only) major network or objective news analysis of this quote, but it's burning up the blogosphere.)
Obama also recently said to his Chicago supporters: "we need you to tell them that they can't vote just once and then just hope for change to happen." While it was a plug for early voting in reference to people who plan to "sit this [election] out," it almost sounds like a promo for ACORN's tricks last election of casting multiple ballots per person.
I wonder how many more of these very, um, forward quotes will be spoken in the next six days.
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