by Christi Parsons
Political analysts maintain that, if Barack Obama hopes to remain competitive with Hillary Clinton, he’ll have to start going after her more aggressively in their race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, whose career bears some parallels to Obama’s, argues otherwise.
“There’s no point bloodying each other up,” Patrick tells his hometown newspaper, the Boston Globe. “Part of the appeal of his campaign and his candidacy is that he is a different kind of candidate and not making all the conventional moves and following all the conventional advice.”
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A rising African American star in Democratic politics, Patrick’s endorsement was considered a big score by the Obama campaign. Clinton also pursued Patrick, who served in her husband’s Justice Department. But Patrick held a large rally for Obama last night in Boston.