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Former GOP senator, vet backs Obama

By: Alexander Burns
October 26, 2008 08:17 PM EST

Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.), who was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the United States Senate, is the latest Republican to back Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Politico learned Sunday.

Pressler, who said that in addition to casting an absentee ballot for Obama he'd donated $500 to the Illinois senator's campaign, cited the Democrat's response to the financial crisis as the primary reason for his decision.

"I just got the feeling that Obama will be able to handle this financial crisis better, and I like his financial team of [former Treasury Secretary Robert] Rubin and [former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul] Volcker better," he said. By contrast, John McCain's "handling of the financial crisis made me feel nervous."

The former senator added that he hoped the next president would help place restraints on executive pay, and said: "I don't think [McCain] will take action in that area, or he's as likely to."

Pressler, who said that he had never voted for a Democrat for president before, added, "I feel really badly. I just hate to go against someone I served with in the Senate. I voted and I got it mailed and I dropped it in the mailbox, and it tore at me to do that."

Source: http://snipurl.com/4rnsw [dyn_politico_com]

I saw Pressler interviewed on CNN the other night. A well-spoken gent with a head on his shoulders.

And when do you post a link to Senator Joseph Lieberman, the Democratic Nominee for President in 2000 endorsing and stumping for McCain?

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/video ... IDLRVNWS08

I'd not vote before I walked away from voting feeling as bad as he says he did dropping a vote for a candidate he didn't believe in.

This is proof positive that Pressler is a committed partisan. There are people who share his views in nonpartisan roles, and he won't even nod to them. It's that bullshit us and them mentality...