An endorsement that won't end up on Obama's web site: UPDATED

From the Jackson Clarion-Ledger:

Before he died Wednesday evening, death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop apologized to his victim's family, thanked America and urged people to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

"For those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end, our best bet is to vote for Barack Obama because his supporters have been working behind the scenes to end this practice," Bishop said.

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A Lee County jury convicted Bishop in 2000 of participating in the murder of Marcus Gentry, who was beaten to death in December 1998 with a claw hammer. His body was found along a logging road near Saltillo.

Bishop did not deliver the fatal blows. He became only the eighth person put to death who did not directly kill his victim among the more than 1,100 executed since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 - not including contract killings

Obama claims that he supports capital punishment. But in this now legandary 1996 Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precint Organization survey, Obama replied "No" to the question, "Do you support capital punishment?"

But The Great One's campaign staff says a volunteer filled out that form.

Yeah, right.

Hat tip to Brainster.

UPDATE 2:05 PM CDT:

Courtesy of Obama's Senate web site, from a 2005 Chicago Tribune interview:

I would feel very uncomfortable putting my name to something that was written by somebody else or co-written or dictated. If my name is on it, it belongs to me.

Case closed.

Thanks for the link:

Doug Ross @ Journal

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