Last week I speculated about the reasons behind John Edwards abrupt decision to suspend his campaign.
Today I'm back with more baseless speculation about John Edwards plans.

According to this local news story,

Edwards dropped out of the Democratic race this week and initially, his campaign asked the secretary of state to remove his name. But NBC 10 reported that Edwards' campaign later asked for Edwards' name to remain on the ballot.  

More speculation about what that might mean after the jump.

ObDisclosure: I'm an Edwards supporter who will still be voting for John in April unless he endorses someone else.

Last night I was thinking about the abruptness of John's decision, and I've been speculating about the possible reason behind it.

If you're an Edwards supporter and want to join me in wild conjecture, why not follow me after the jump?

We need a "far-left" vice president.

One of the few brilliant ideas that the BushRove mind-meld came up with was picking Dick Cheney as a running mate. The experience of having Cheney as VP has given us at least three object, if painful, lessons:

1. Who the VP candidate is does not affect the presidential candidate's ticket's electability. At. All.

2. Having a VP that scares the sh*t out of the opposition party is genius impeachment insurance for the POTUS.

3. The VP can get away with doing a lot of stuff to advance his own agenda by waving his hands and screaming "Executive Privilege!"

Ergo, to take a page from the right-wing book, the simplest way to advance  the left's agenda is to have a left-wing activist vice-president. Similar to how Cheney got oil lobbyists to write the energy policy, our VP could get Greenpeace to write our Global Warming policy, for example. Stuff like that. And if Congress tries to call him to account, he just has to stare them down and say something rude.
Yeah? Yeah? Is it not a brilliant playbook steal?

So let's pick a VP that can make the right-wingers can cower in fear!

This is my first diary; I hadn't actually planned to write any diaries, but I saw this webmovie and just want to pass it on to the people who I know care deeply about this issue (you).

Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films, who previously brought us the films Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Iraq for Sale,  has created a new webmovie titled The War On Greed: Starring Henry Kravis and his homes (note: movie will auto-launch when you click the link.)

To premiere the movie, protestors are outside Henry Kravis's 26-room Park Avenue penthouse apartment, just one of the 5 multi-million dollar homes he owns. You get to see them on all the short film, and learn that last year, Henry Kravis earned $450 million, which breaks down to $1.3 million a day. That is just so awesome! I bet he created a gazillion new jobs doing that. Or maybe he invented some really cool new product! Maybe he even invested in alternative energy.