If they take Obama for a photo op to eat at Primanti Bros. its over, lock down for Obama.

Browns. Ouch.

Go Stillers.

And no Primanti's, unfortunately - they hit up Sharky's instead.

"Obama Wows Oakland Crowd"

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_559532.html

But everyone knows that Bettis is from Detroit, and that Franco Harris finished his career in California, a large blue state that Clinton carried, therefore it is obvious that neither of these endorsements count.

- Mark Penn

Damn you Mark Penn! What swift-boating will you bring next? we'll give them the first four Super Bowls, but the fifth one doesn't count?

Almost like a Favre endorsement in Wisconsin .... almost.

Papa Smurf went to the same high school as Bettis (a little bit earlier, of course) and is very honored to have.

What do endorements really mean?

Here's just some of the positions Bob Casey has taken.

Casey believes Roe v. Wade should be overturned. He opposes embryonic stem cell research.
He supports Bush's warrantless NSA spying program He thinks the Patriot Act is a vital and necessary tool.
He supports the death penalty.
He opposes legalization of all drugs.
He opposes, on the war in Iraq, a deadline for withdrawal.
He supported the Defense of Marriage Amendment. He opposes gay marriage.
He supports teaching "abstinence plus" in schools.
He supports the posting of the Ten Commandments in government buildings:
He doesn't believe in censuring Bush for domestic spying.
He voted YES on removing need for FISA warrant for wiretapping abroad.

This is record of the man now campaigning across Pennsylvania with Obama. I suppose some might say this an example of Obama's reaching out to other skills.

So why is Bob Casey supporting Obama?

Astral, seen any more clever and humorous posts lately?

Jofga,

That's exactly my point. That's why Obama is campaign with Casey. The issue is: Will Obama, that stalwart, principled, pure of heart leader, progressive without peer, say or do anything to win?

Yeah! I was waiting for that one!

Blue,

Who said anything about purity-of-endorsers, whatever the heck that is?

Most followers of PA politics know the backstory on Casey, the Clintons, and Rendell. Hence the endorsement Friday. What I really want to know is how do Obama supporters feel when they see Obama, as he did yesterday, stand next to Bob Casey and state that he and Casey share the same goals, the same policies, the same values when they are clearly, on a good many issues, 180 degrees apart? What anybody did or said for Lieberman isn't germane to the issue. So, again I raise the question: will Obama, as all politicans do, say or do anything to win?

Blue,

You're getting as good as Josh Marshall at reading between the lines and seeing things that aren't there. Nowhere do I say anything about the purity of any endorsements. Nor do I say whether or not I agree with Bob Casey's positions. Nor did I do any back-tracking from any position because I hadn't taken one, absurd or otherwise. What I did do was list a number of positions Bob Casey's taken, state explicitly, not imply, using Obama's own position in talking to the voters of Pennsylvania, that he and Casey share the same goals, values etc.

The backstory line was in response to your bit of puffery about Casey having never supported Republicans or campaigning against Democrats (once again not germane to the issue).

I'll give astral credit: he tried to answer with some perspective from an Obama supporter's point of view. You just ignored the question, threw in an insult about my brains regarding logic and fact, called Bill Clinton a moron (again not even remotely germane to the post, then tried a heavy dose of Straussian reading on my first post.