From Obama's Blog via ABC News: Bill Bradley to endorse Obama.

Wiggle waggle wiggle waggle.

hillary.

Guest DJ. Man's got quite the music taste.

:shrug:

Her 1973 moment...

He was re-elected over Christie Todd Whitman in 1990, and retired from the Senate in 1996.

but it was supposed to be a cakewalk and he won by a few percentage points, the voters were angry at the then-Govs tax increases and took it out on him because he wouldn't speak out against the increases.

He was almost able to bump off Gore there. A political friend that was working for Bradley says that the main reason he lost was that McCain got so hot.

Bill Bradley is a great liberal and I will always appreciate his attempt to bring the true Dem voice to the 2000 campaign.

From the NYT last March:

You criticize Bill Clinton in your book as an illustration of the painful limitations of charisma.

Bill Clinton was the first two-term Democratic president since F.D.R. and was enormously popular — and yet at the end of eight years in office, there were fewer Democratic senators, fewer Democratic congressmen, fewer Democratic governors, fewer state legislators, and the party was in debt. You can be regarded as a charismatic president, and yet it doesn’t translate into structure.

By that measure, you should love Hillary, who is low on charisma and strong on experience at the federal level.

I think Joe Biden is more experienced. He has been a senator since 1972. Bill Richardson has seen government and policy in so many different places.

Which Democratic candidate do you find the most impressive?

Right now, I suppose Obama is extremely impressive to me. He is in a cultural skyrocket, a vertical ascent.

But doesn’t that contradict your argument? Couldn’t he be seen as coasting on charisma?

It’s not just charisma, because he has touched something very deep that had been waiting to be touched for a long time — returning idealism to a central focus of our politics. I tried to touch it in 2000 and didn’t make it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/magazine/25WWLNQ4.t.html

going to change all of that.

I'm impressed!

and he lost to Bush!