Civil Rights Vet Backs Bid
In Sparks, Nev., Republican candidate Mitt Romney holds a town hall meeting.
(By Scott Sady -- Associated Press)
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AN ENDORSEMENT FOR CLINTON
Civil Rights Vet Backs Bid
Rep. John Lewis, a veteran civil rights activist and prominent African American member of Congress, endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday.
"I have looked at all the candidates, and I believe that Hillary Clinton is the best prepared to lead this country at a time when we are in desperate need of strong leadership," Lewis (D-Ga.) said in a statement, before making an official announcement in Atlanta. Lewis, who was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the early 1960s, is perhaps best known for his role leading protesters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in March 1965.
Beaten by police during the nonviolent march, Lewis went on to become an icon of "Bloody Sunday."
In her comments welcoming the Lewis endorsement, Clinton (N.Y.) called him a "great American hero." Her campaign hopes the move will help solidify the impression that she is rolling steadily toward the nomination, picking up African American support in her primary campaign against a black candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said: "Barack Obama has great admiration for John Lewis and understands his long relationship with Bill Clinton. He looks forward to his support when Barack Obama is the nominee."
-- Anne E. Kornblut
THE BATTLE ON IRAN
Obama, Edwards Criticize Clinton
The Democratic presidential candidates continued to battle over Iraq and Iran yesterday, employing the Middle Eastern nations in their arguments over who had the proper judgment to serve as president.
After Hillary Clinton said in New Hampshire on Thursday that she would meet with Iranian leaders "without preconditions" if president, a stance she had attacked as "naive" when Barack Obama took it earlier this year, both Obama and former North Carolina senator John Edwards jumped on the opportunity to hit the front-runner.
