Edwards spent so much time in the beginning talking up Hillary, for a second I almost thought he was going to Pwn Obama by using his crowd to try to endorse Hillary! He would have been booed so loudly it would have messed up his hair, but that would have really been something.
Obama and Edwards really looked like a ticket tonight, but I hope and trust that Obama wont invite Edwards to join the ticket.
Prediction: I also think Hillary will suspend her campaign before the end of the month, maybe before the end of next week.
Labels: Barack Obama, Democrats, John Edwards, politics, predictions
John Edwards has been an extreme disappointment. He isn't fooling anyone claiming populist principles are behind his accepting public financing.
The underlying problem is one that liberals are afraid to talk about: John Edwards seems too feminine too often. Ann Coulter's attack, while providing a short-term fundraising lift for Edwards, got folks (rather than people) asking themselves whether or not Edwards might be, or could be, a homosexual. At a minimum more people are noticing his femininity. This goes well beyond a haircut, and he didn't help himself in a recent debate when he commented on Hillary's wardrobe.
Imagine, for a moment, if the Edwards campaign secretly planted an actor to come up to Edwards, insult his wife or his family, and the provoke a fight with Edwards and take a dive and have Edwards beat the hell out of him. A radical dream, I know, but it would help him a lot more than it would hurt him. American picks Presidents the same way schoolboys pick Quarterbacks. We want tough leaders, a manliness that ironically Hillary has and Edwards lacks.
Tragically, the brightest point of light in his campaign could begin to fade soon, as her controversial new video reminds us. I thought Elizabeth Edwards’s video was both courageous and savvy, more and more these attributes seem like part of her character, but not his.
Labels: 2008, Augur, John Edwards, Namby Pamby
