Prior to the upcoming "Potomac Primary" former DC mayor Marion Barry gives a coveted endorsement to Barack Obama:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/...
Barry expects that Obama will win in Tuesday's D.C. primary, but cautioned that the contest will be closer than might be expected based on a purely racial reading of the electorate.
...and based on word of his Obama endorsement leaking out.
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. has much in common with the Democratic presidential candidate starting with having an embarrassing seldom-used middle name.
Marion "Goddamn Bitch Set Me Up" Barry was arrested in 1990 for possession of crack cocaine renowned for an accompanying viral suveillance video that ran continuously on whatever passed for YouTube way back then.
In 2005-06 Marion Barry earned a criminal trifecta of charges of tax evasion, flunking a cocaine and marijuana drug test at the tax hearing and a drunk-driving arrest after being stopped by Secret Service agents.
Insert your own cocaine jokes here.
Needless to say, Mayor Barry was reelected to the DC city council.
Quoting the respected "Internet"
In July 2007, Marion Barry was chosen as one of fifty wax statues to debut in the Washington D.C. franchise of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Barry was chosen by a majority of Washington residents and tourists from Tussauds' "Top 10 Wish List," in a contest that pitted him against Cal Ripken, Al Gore, Denzel Washington, Carl Bernstein, Halle Berry, Martin Sheen, Marilyn Monroe, Nancy Reagan and Oprah Winfrey.
Eat your heart out Oprah.
Hillary Clinton staffers are expected to be stationed all over the metro DC area in the upcoming week in hopes of photographing an endorsement handshake picture of Barry and Obama along with videotaping some inspiring speechifying. If a photo is unavailable, Clinton volunteers are expected to spend hundreds of hours putting one together with Photoshop.