Oregon: Joe Biden

DENVER--The Oregon Democratic Party said Friday that the addition of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Ak.) to the Republican presidential ticket would only push more voters toward Democratic candidate Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

“Now we know the field, and there is one ticket that stands for change, and one ticket that is four more years of the Bush administration,” DPO spokesman Marc Siegel said.

DENVER -- Former U.S. Rep. Denny Smith (R-Ontario) said Tuesday that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama I(D-Ill.) may have wowed a lot of people on the campaign trail, but that did not mean he was ready to lead.

“He’s been wrong on taxes, wrong on the surge. And he won’t even admit he was wrong on the surge,” Smith said via conference call from Oregon. “We ought to make him campaigner of the year. But not president.”

U.S. Rep. David Wu (D-Portland) didn't know who presidential candidate Barack Obama (D-Ill.), would pick as his running mate, but on Monday Wu said all along he had a feeling it would be U.S. Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.).

“I had been talking about it in the congressional lunchroom, and I had said Biden,” Wu said, as he left a breakfast meeting with Oregon Delegates on his way to address the Asian Pacific Islander American Caucus. “But I also said no one knew for sure because this Obama campaign is so disciplined.”

DENVER-U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Portland) urged the Oregon delegation to get out and fight for every vote for Barack Obama, warning them that the smear tactics of John McCain’s campaign were only going to intensify.

“Make no mistake; the Bush cronies are running McCain’s campaign down to the minute detail,” Blumenauer told the delegates gathered for breakfast. “If they have their way, they will not only maintain their draconian policies, they will expand it.”