These are dark days to be a liberal blogger.
If you're not pissed off about FISA or any other of the numerous controversies that have been swirling, than you're pissed off over the uproar. You know things are getting bad when you find yourself nostalgic for the primary campaign or at least the one week window where unity not only seemed possible but actually seemed to be occuring.
Senator Obama is in a bit of a hole right now, some of it of his own digging. There is no quick, easy fix for his problems with the progressive wing of the party but there is something he can do as a gesture, a symbolic tip of the hat in their direction
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Now I haven't been shy about my feelings on this race, including the subject of VP. While I admit to not being as knowledgable as some people here, Wesley Clark has seemed the common sense to me and I've been saying so for more than a few months. If not Clark, then I was also open to the possibility of Jim Webb. This was all based on the assumption that Obama would be perceieved as liberal and needed someone with a military background to shore up any hemmorage in his support.
But for better or worse Webb has ruled himself out and General Clark seems to have been ruled out by the media. And much to my surprise, it's not conservative support that Obama is having trouble holding on to, it's progressives.
Which is why this article at CNN caught my eye.
John Edwards said Tuesday that if he were asked to accept the vice presidential slot or a cabinet position in a potential Barack Obama administration, he would "seriously consider" whatever the Illinois senator asked him to do.
Now it all makes sense. While I was never a super fan of the Senator from North Carolina, I am aware that many people here are. What better way to show the left that you're not abandoning them than by giving voice to one of it's champions?
I've heard stories that he wasn't so enthused about running for VP the first time and that his performance was questionable. But I think it's also true that everything he's done since then has been a reaction to that failed bid.
John Edwards is no longer Opie. He's no longer the all smiles young sun of a gun that David Axelrod wanted him to be. And as such, his newer, angrier image could be the perfect foil for Barack's calm pragmatism.
Am I crazy or could this work?
**Update**
Kat68 had a good suggestion that I use the word "reenergize."