Baron Hill Introduces the Obamassiah at Rally, But Won't Endorse Him (Yet?)

More cheering people than Baron's probably seen in his entire life (and they're not cheering for him).

From the Indiana Daily Student:

“[Hillary] is of Washington,” [Obama] said. “She thinks that lobbyists are not the problem.”

Obama went on the say he has worked to limit the influence that special interests have on his campaign.

“If you elect me, we can tell the lobbyists who work in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over,” he said.

Obama’s campaign also appears to have made some progress in courting one of Indiana’s 11 so called “superdelegates.”

U.S. Congressman Baron Hill, D-Ind., who represents Columbus, Bloomington and New Albany, Ind., introduced Obama to the cheering crowd.

Hill, who like several other Indiana superdelegates has not come out in support of either presidential candidate, told the Indiana Daily Student that he is still undecided. However, he said he has never seen so much excitement about politics in Indiana.

The irony of the Obamassiah preaching about lobbying reform while being introduced by a former "senior advisor" to a big Washington lobbying firm, is surely not lost on anyone.

And let's not forget Baron's efforts (here and here) to enrich the clients of that same lobbying firm.

Anyhow, the spin Baron's peeps put on it later was quite entertaining:

Despite attending the Columbus rally for Sen. Barack Obama Friday, Congressman Baron Hill is still uncommitted on which Democratic he supports for president.

Hill is a so-called “superdelegate” in Indiana, one of 11 Democratic Party appointees in the state whose unpledged votes could help decide this year’s Democratic nomination.

“He just wanted to welcome Sen. Obama to the ninth district,” said his press secretary Katie Moreau. “As he said in his comments he’s excited for what this means to Indiana.”

He also thinks competition is good for democracy, she said.

Hill has not attended any rallies for Obama’s opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the ninth district. He’s been unable to because her visits to the area have been during the week, Moreau said, but he has met with her and the former president Bill Clinton.

Hill wants to take into account the will of the voters in his decision as a superdelegate, Moreau said.

Heaven forbid that Baron Hill have to take a stand on anything.

He can't take a stand on the most basic of issues, one way or the other, let alone take a stand on something like his own party's nominee for president.