text: Talk about a not-so-warm welcome for the president of the United States and the leader of your party.
  
  Just hours before President Obama is scheduled to arrive in Rhode Island, the Democratic nominee for governor in that heavily Democratic state fired off some of the toughest anti-Obama language of the season.
  
  “He could take his endorsement and really shove it, as far as I’m concerned,” said Frank T. Caprio, who is locked in a three-way race that includes former senator Lincoln Chafee, who is running as an independent.
  
  Mr. Caprio has not received Mr. Obama’s endorsement in the race, and White House officials confirmed on Sunday that he would not be getting it today. Mr. Obama, a former senator, and Mr. Chafee, who served as a moderate Republican in the Senate, are close.
  
  But to Mr. Caprio, that relationship amounts to “Washington insider politics at its worst.” He accused the president, who is holding a fundraiser in the state today, of treating Rhode Island “like an ATM machine.” And he insisted he had no need of a presidential nod.
  
  “I will wear as a badge of honor and a badge of courage that he doesn’t want to endorse me as a Democrat because I am a different kind of Democrat,” Mr. Caprio told radio station WPRO-AM in a morning interview.
  
  Polls show Mr. Caprio and Mr. Chafee in a tight race, with the Republican, John Robitaille, consistently third in the three-way contest.
  
  Mr. Obama is scheduled to arrive in Warwick, R.I., at about 4 p.m. Eastern time.
summary: Frank T. Caprio, a Democrat, has not received Mr. Obama's endorsement in the Rhode Island governor's race and made clear in strong language that he isn't seeking it.