Tomorrow, Deval Patrick will formally endorse Barack Obama for President.
Did anybody really expect anything different?
Gov. Deval Patrick tomorrow will formally endorse Barack Obama for president, giving the Illinois senator key support from the nation’s only black governor and a huge boost among influential Bay State campaign donors.I think this was the predictable choice. Obama's campaign for president has been loaded with fluff and lacking of substance... basically, a larger scale version of Deval's gubernatorial campaign. But does Obama really want to be compared to Deval Patrick now?The move comes after months of quiet deliberation by Patrick, who has been torn between Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose husband appointed Patrick to the top civil rights post in his administration in the 1990s.
Let's face it, Deval has been a disappointing governor. His first weeks and months were plagued by scandals and mishaps. He promised an end to "politics as usual" (the same way Obama is now) only to demonstrate he can be as crooked as an entrenched politician. Even the far left-wing that so enthusiastic backed his fluffed-up campaign have been scratching their heads.
Obama's campaign has pretty come right out of Deval's playbook. The more you put the two together, the more Democrats will see that the idealistic rhetoric Obama is echoing in 2007 is as meaningless as Deval's back in 2006.
