There are those who say these early debates are unimportant. Not according to State Rep. Jack Franks. Based on Hillary's performances in the first two debates, Franks is convinced she is the only Democratic candidate who can be an effective President from day one. This has to be a major blow to the Obama camp, considering that Franks worked on Obama's Presidential Exploratory Committee.
Obviously Franks is putting the interests of his country before his allegiance to Sen. Obama. He knows that Hillary is ready to lead and he states, very clearly, that Obama is not ready to lead
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State Rep. Jack Franks, D-Woodstock, officially declared his support for the Democratic front-runner. Clinton holds a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama, a Chicago Democrat, in recent polls.
McHenry County’s top elected Democrat has given his presidential endorsement to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., instead of the former state senator who he has known for almost a decade and for whom he was an active volunteer.
The endorsement comes just months after Franks served on Obama’s presidential exploratory committee and about a week after the representative cast his party’s lone vote against a bill that moved up the state primary from the third Tuesday in March to Feb. 5.
The earlier primary left some state partisans hopeful that it could give Obama an earlier boost in the primary season.
"I watched the first two [Democratic] debates and it was evident to me that only one person up on that stage was ready to lead our country," Franks said. "On Day 1, whoever is leading our country has got to be ready to go, there’s no learning on the job."
Franks said his endorsement did not diminish his respect for Obama, with whom Franks served in the Legislature between 1998 and 2004. Rather, Franks said, it merely was a matter of choosing the right candidate for the times.
"I like [Obama]," he said. "I like him very much. He is going to be president of the United States some day and he will be a very good president, but it is not his time. He's not ready for it."
"I think Jack’s motivation is pure," Cynor said. "He believes that for the senator from New York, it apparently is ... time."
"Obviously, the easy decision is to go with Barack, how could you not like Barack?" Franks said. "This is the most important election facing America probably in the last 50 years, because of the terrorism threat, because our standing in the world has never been lower, and I have to worry about our future.
"I know she's the only person who can step into the job from Day 1, hit the ground running, and be the leader of the free world."
You can read about Jack Franks here:
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