John Edwards Did The Right Thing
I'm upset that Edwards' message didn't get the support it deserves. But make no mistake, Senator Edwards suspending his campaign before Super Tuesday was the right move.
Hopefully his supporters and delegates will side with Barack Obama.
Or Hillary Clinton.
Two good choices.
I'm going to caucus for Senator Obama. Because he'd beat the pants off McCain.
Can Hillary?
posted by kate @ 11:24 PM
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11 Comments:
I agree with you. I'd rather see Prince Obama go up against Grandpa McCain than Grandma Clinton.
(I can say this because I am a grandfather.)
My boy's four and out? Oh, well. I'll happily back whichever Dem gets the nod.
McCain will rip Obama a new one. It'll be Obama reciting Toni Morrison poems in his long-winded responses that never really answer a question while McCain is attacking him. McCain is an honorable guy and a policy wonk, we need someone serious and tough and who has answers to questions. Obama is a roll of the dice and he's jeopardized any hopes of winning in Florida with his repeated memos minimizing 1.5 million Democrats.
If you want a winner who can swiftboat the Republicans the way they'll try to swiftboat us, go with someone with some real answers and a past that goes back as long as McCain's. That's Hillary, she's ready and she can do it.
See if you can sort this out:
BHO=JFK (I)
HRC=JFK (II)
Get my drift?
This race seems to be shaping up to be the Democrats' to lose. The majority of people are so very dissatisfied with anything claiming to be Republican that they'd vote Bubbles the Chimp into office so long as he wasn't wearing an elephant pin. So it's almost inconceivable that it won't be either Hillary or Obama in November.
But vigilante brings up a good point. Identity politics is so ingrained in us as a country and the moment, that no matter who wins or even gets the nomination, it's going to be taken as a sort of silent referendum on either race or gender relations. If Hillary takes it, then people will say, "Oh, look how advanced we've become that we can elect a woman president." If it's Obama, same line, except substituting "black man" in for "woman".
It'll be seen as a sign of progress, but I suspect it's not that people still don't have racial or gender issues, just that they currently hate Republicans more.
Plus, whoever gets it is being handed a HUGE shit sandwich by Bush. I'm concerned that, by the end of their first year, what will be seen as a sign of advancement shortly after the election will be reinterpreted to have been a missed warning sign making the job of the next black or female candidate that much harder.
Edwards' advantage was that he could have side stepped a lot of this. Voting for him wouldn't have been voting (even indirectly) by identity politics. It would have sent a clear message, instead of a garbled "If you're a black/woman and don't vote for Obama/Hillary you're a traitor and if you're white/man and don't vote for Obama/Hillary you're a racist/misogynist."
Sometimes theres an advantage to being a bland white guy.
1) What's this "suspended" B.S.? Either the campaign is over, or it's not.
2) Hillary and Bill will continue to play the race card until they get their butts rightfully kicked. That will be the defining aspect of the primary campaign for the dems. It will also divide the party so much as to set up whoever wins (probably Hill/Bill) for a big loss (probably to McCain). The Clintons have sowed the seeds of their own destruction. The only real question is who all they will take with them.
To Vigilante:
If you mean what I think you mean, you better hope the secret service, feds or whoever isn't monitoring this blog. And if you meant that from a personal standpoint, it's people like you who make this world the sick place it is becoming.
A women's group came out and said that Teddy Kennedy endorsing Obama was a betrayal to women.
You're right, QJ, and I don't like being told my vote should automatically go one way or another just because I have two breasts and a vagina. My brain trumps any and all sexual organs.
Most of the time anyway.
how do you get past obama's ties to radical muslim teachings - attendance at a radical muslim school for 12 years and his allegiance to the koran?
i know it's true - i heard it on savage.
Sarcasm becomes you Anon6:15.
Unless, of course, that wasn't sarcastic...
Obama isn't a Muslim.
But he IS a member of a church that is essentially a black separationist church. That is of concern. Any church whose minister praises the anti-Semitic Louis Farakhan (sp?) isn't a good place to be. I'm not sure just why the press has given Obama a pass on that. For sure if McCain belonged to a "whites only" church, they'd be all over that.....heck, they're all over Romney for being a Mormon, trying to hold him to what his religion said 100 years ago.
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