Could John and Elizabeth Edwards be this calculating?
Word is former Dem presidential hopeful John Edwards is now leaning toward endorsing Hillary . . . but it's still a wait and see.
• Translation: Sneed hears Edwards' wife, cancer survivor Elizabeth Edwards, does NOT favor Barack Obama's candidacy . . . but NOT because of racism. "She feels her husband should have been the man in the center of the presidential sweepstakes, rather than Obama," a source said.
The source for this claim is Michael Sneed, a columnist for the Chicago Sun Time.
I think the world of Elizabeth Edwards and would be just appalled to discover that Sneed's sources are reliable and that the Edwards have bought into the Clinton’s scorched earth policy on the theory that if they help bloody Obama, he will lose the general election in the fall to John McCain and John Edwards will be well positioned to run for president in 2012.
I saw John Edwards on the Jay Leno show last week and got the impression that he did not plan to endorse anyone. However, I also felt that he was not overly enthusiastic about Obama and was overly taken with how "tenacious" and "tough" Hillary Clinton is (yes she is tenacious and tough on the campaign trail but, as a senator, she has not turned any of that tenacity and toughness to the issues about which Edwards says he is concerned (poverty, health care, corporate influence, etc.)).
I won't deny that I am very disappointed in Edwards for not endorsing Obama. (I was a big Edwards supporter initially and sent him a fair amount of money, switching to Obama only after Edwards withdrew from the race.) With every passing day, Hillary Clinton looks more and more flawed as a candidate and less and less likely to gain the nomination. So why is John Edwards helping to keep Hillary's candidacy alive?? And of course his endorsement in North Carolina would be very helpful to Obama.