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John Edwards supports Barack Obama: "What he brings to the table is #1, the capacity to unite the Democratic Party, #2 to bring in new voters, to bring in people who haven't been involved in the process over a long period of time, and to get people excited about change."
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by Jimmy Crackcorn on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:33:01 AM PDT
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Good for John, about time he said something.
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by The Bagof Health and Politics on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:34:10 AM PDT
endorsement. Disappointed.
by Phil S 33 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:35:15 AM PDT
He needs to do that with Obama, then have the pictures of them both standing together.
So he would not give his "officially official" endorsement on some talk show.
by MD patriot on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:46:56 AM PDT
by Phil S 33 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:15:49 AM PDT
if we can get word out in time
by Ohiobama on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:40:21 AM PDT
He couldn't even deliver NC in 2000.
"Some of you may decide that my FISA position is a deal breaker. That's ok." - Barack Obama
by Joe Beese on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:47:01 AM PDT
...I wonder if as VP he might help in NC in 2008. Obama is much more competitive in NC than Kerry was... maybe Edwards should be VP and can get camped out in the upper south -- Virginia, North Carolina, and Missouri... and maybe rust belt regions as well.
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by Tetris on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:59:56 AM PDT
as being VP. Sorry. IMHO, he does not give Obama either the demographics or the "experienced gravitas" meme that would help him.
"We're all working for the Pharaoh" - Richard Thompson
by mayan on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:01:32 AM PDT
When Barack needed him, he did not endorse and sat on the fence. Even Richardson made a play (not sure I would like him for VP though). Barack needs an A+ player that showed decisive decision in the run up.
by dan667 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:09:04 AM PDT
John McCain--not so much old as obsolete.
by ohiolibrarian on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:31:11 AM PDT
I meant that if he did endorse, it could play big in the WV primary on Tuesday and then the KY primary. But now that I watch the tape, I see he did not endorse, so that's that -- worthless.
In this case, most rural whites in WV and KY originally supported Edwards. They flipped to Clinton when Edwards dropped out. They need that validation from a white man they respect before going to Barack Obama, sorry to say. Much more important than in NC in 2004 when race was not at all an issue.
by Ohiobama on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:09:47 AM PDT
"Statistics are people with the tears washed away." Sociologist Ruth Sidel
by Vicky on Fri May 09, 2008 at 09:03:42 AM PDT
now that it's almost risk-free to jump on the bandwagon. Or off the sinking ship. Or whatever other metaphor works for anyone. Off the fence.
Politicians are professional cowards.
by timelad on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:53:25 AM PDT
"The thing that gave it away for me..." - Chuck Todd
by Jimmy Crackcorn on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:34:34 AM PDT
by Phil S 33 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:35:50 AM PDT
give it a minute :)
meanwhile, in breaking news....
by Jimmy Crackcorn on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:37:09 AM PDT
Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
by lookit on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:56:31 AM PDT
LOL!
;P
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by Hellenic Pagan on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:58:48 AM PDT
Who cares? I don't anymore (and I voted for him when I cast my vote early in the Illinois Primary, before he bailed out). Edwards had his opportunities to be relevant in this race, but he let them all slip away (the last being the primary in his home state of North Carolina).
by Randall Sherman on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:36:51 AM PDT
Edwards supporter that he played it safe.
by IndySteve on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:38:14 AM PDT
wants to be "relevant" in the sense of picking the nominee. He wanted to be president, obviously, but he didn't get the votes so he dropped out. I don't think he wanted to be seen as directing people how to choose. I think we have all become just a wee bit too cynical and assume secret motives in everything. Maybe Edwards admitted to himself he lost, stepped aside, and decided to become a civilian in this battle. I could be wrong, but I think Edwards is a stand up guy. I would have voted for him, I was pulling for him and he was my first choice. I respect the way he has stayed out of this race.
If Hillary Clinton does anything to damage either the party or its nominee, Barack Obama, then the fault lies completely at her feet. Not at the feet of the super delegates who "didn't end this thing" or a John Edwards who missed his chance to be relevant.
by magurakurin on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:47:35 AM PDT
After HRC's gaffe(?) about hard working Americans, white Americans, somebody had to do something to send the word that this was absolutely unacceptable and that a price would be assessed, and since the press nominated him as bellweather, and he absolutely does not support splitting the poor and using them only as pawns, he was a good one to do it. It's only too little, too late if you assume that it's only about votes for him. It isn't. (Another quality candidate chewed up by the Clinton machine, [sigh])
by Christy1947 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:06:25 AM PDT
to stop racism... Hillary's remarks yesterday were the most racist things ever said by a so called main-stream Democrat in the last 20 years and yet no one hardly makes mention. Even Nixon wasn't that racist in his coded appeal to white southern blacks. She could have at least said Reagan Democrats or some other coded reference. But no. She's right out there saying the most disgusting stuff since Jim Crow. It's as if George Wallace 1970 is back in the drag. I understand the white cultural mass media not even getting it but shame on all of you Democrats. Progressive independents will have to stand up and show you the way of your errors. I have never seen such racist comments fly by without attacks. I know you are desperate to win the election so you are kissing ass to that monster of a person, but do you have to sell your souls too. Those who don't stand up are just as bad as she is.
Next Hillary will be blocking the doors of the Denver Convention center to blacks with her white storm troopers.
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by john from vermont on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:47:55 AM PDT
and went to WV and Kentucky and ask whites to stop making the Racist Hillary a grand wizard of the KKK, then I might have some respect for him. He got rich of the poor and is quite happy playing his stupid role as pretty boy who rolls out another trick on poor folks ...did anyone ever believe that he was on the side of the poor. It was a gimmick like Hillary and McCain's gas tax. No wonder he couldn't even deliver North Carolina to the Dem column. People see right through his bull and why he didn't get out of any starting gates. the only thing that was true was his $400 haircut.
by john from vermont on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:55:16 AM PDT
yes we care
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
by IamTheJudge on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:00:08 AM PDT
Obama 50 (47) Clinton 42 (43)
by Kitty on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:39:46 AM PDT
Tracking poll results are based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a four-day rolling average basis. Two nights of interviews for today’s update were completed after the Indiana and North Carolina Primaries. For those two nights on a stand-alone basis, Obama leads Clinton by eleven percentage points.
'Part of what makes America so beautiful is that there is no such thing as someone who looks like an American' - Barack Obama
by RichM on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:46:32 AM PDT
Obama leads Clinton by twenty-one points among those who use the Internet daily or nearly every day. Clinton leads among those who are less likely to be online.
by Kitty on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:53:16 AM PDT
People who are more plugged in / informed.
by Nathan in MN on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:54:08 AM PDT
My boss is a big Hillary supporter. For the most part I haven't said anything to him about her. But, yesterday I just couldn't help myself and I told him about Hillary's racist statement. His reply was "She would never say something like that". I showed him proof and then asked how he could support her considering all the nasty things she had done in this race. It turns out, he didn't know about most of them. He gets his news by watching NBC in the evening and the local Sunday paper. He had no idea what Hillary had become. He also didn't believe me when I told him some of the things she had done so I just gave up. The good news is that he will vote for Obama.
by Katiebegood on Fri May 09, 2008 at 10:51:31 AM PDT
wide narrow
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