It was the most lukewarm and indirect of endorsements, delivered in the conditional tense, and coming from a presidential spokesman, no less.
But for William C. Thompson Jr., the Democratic nominee for mayor, the surprising comments Friday made by Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s press secretary, that Mr. Obama would support “the Democratic nominee” was tantamount to a life preserver in his uphill battle to unseat Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
The comment came at the end of a news conference at the White House, in which most of the questions dwelled on another surprise: the news that Mr. Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. When asked about a reporter for The New York Daily News about who the president was backing in the New York mayor’s race, Mr. Gibbs said: “The president is the leader of the Democratic Party and, as that, would support the Democratic nominee.”
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