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By: Cheney's Ass

Cheney's Ass — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:53:25 +0000

Mad Martigan - Please recycle that tin foil hat! (speak Canadian????)

Edwards WILL endorse Obama. He hinted at it today in his speech:

“For decades, we stopped focusing on those struggles. They didn’t register in political polls, they didn’t get us votes and so we stopped talking about it.”

Clearly, he was referring to the Clintons.

By: Mad Martigan

Mad Martigan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:10:05 +0000

McCain is a scary choice, he’s running on a platform of less jobs - more wars. He knows that’s where the money is. The money shoveled up from the working poor, (formerly the middle class).

John Edwards was the only candidate that handily beat McCain in every poll, and we let him get away. I think we all need to get behind Mitt Romney and push hard to keep McCain out, (or learn to speak Canadian).

I can’t help but think that perhaps the men-in-black offered Edwards the JFK solution, or told him it would be his kids if he didn’t shut-up and go away. The timing of his withdrawl is suspect; Super Tuesday is not that far off. Should I be wearing my tinfoil hat?

And whatever became of the re-count in new Hampshire? We will all be truly fucked if our votes continue to be Diebolded.

By: Kevin Hayden

Kevin Hayden — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:19:08 +0000

He inspired us. Let’s just carry on his aims and ideals anyway, because it’s the biggest choice we continue to control.

Oh, and eat the (uncaring) rich while we’re at it, too.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:26:54 +0000

Shit. And I already voted for him here in New York…

By: votermom

votermom — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:16:51 +0000

Damn it. I’ll sit out the primary.

By: William

William — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:57:34 +0000

Well, I guess the media finally got the damn Obama vs Clinton race that they’ve been pushing on us for over a year now.

Sigh.

I hope you’re wrong about Elizabeth being in bad shape. But I had wondered about that. I have enough people going through cancer right now.

Maybe we’ll get to see John as AG?

Sigh.

By: Raoul Paste

Raoul Paste — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:24:39 +0000

I know professionals who say that if McCain wins, they will move to Canada. So how bad does it have to get in America before the rubes realize who’s been lying to them?

America, you were beautiful. And God bless the Edwards family

By: Strudel & Shotguns

Strudel & Shotguns — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:01:31 +0000

Ditto Rena at #8.
Feh.
It’s stinking already.
Guess it’ll be party politics, old school, old guard, same old.
Billary versus Caesar McCainus? Billary could lose, folks.
One hundred years in iraq. Yee-haaw!
Remember, it took a series of increasingly corrupt leaders to wreck Rome…there’s no cure for this problem, either. It’s a feed back loop. (Second Law of thermodynamics applied to societies: entropy, tending toward disorder.)

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:46:44 +0000

Nothing of mine to Obama. He can donate it to Afghan relief. Worst winter in a lifetime. 80,000 head of livestock and 200 people known dead from the cold. Real body count won’t be known till the spring thaw, if then. A friend who does relief work there just told me the story of a little girl freezing to death in an orphanage they’ve been trying to help. Wages are $2 a day. Women begging for money to buy potatos and bread to feed the kids. Corporations who’re paying kickbacks to local warlords are doing ok though. So much for Bush’s flowery description in the SOTU. I’m so really fucking NOT proud to be an american right now.

By: misfit

misfit — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:34:24 +0000

I think we’re losing our best hope of defeating the repukes in Nov. I don’t understand why fellow Dems haven’t seen this. I guess, as usual, by the time PA’s primary rolls around, there’ll be only one left anyway. Thanks Harrisburg a-holes.

By: Rena

Rena — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:17:53 +0000

I think I’m going to find another obsession. At 55, I’ve really been disappointed enough by this country’s politics.

By: Mad Martigan

Mad Martigan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:53:08 +0000

Dag-nabbit, I miss him already. I guess this means we have to settle for vague offers of hope and change with no real plans about how to enact said change. At least his presence, (as well as Kucinich before him) forced some discussion of actual issues. Of course, you wouldn’t know it from the corporate media, unless you think that fashion and hairstyle are actual issues.

So how long will it be before the Edwards campaign completes the accounting required to return all of his supporters’ money? Will they pro-rate whats left, and give a partial rebate to all? Or will they say that the early donations were spent as they were received, and just return the recent (record breaking) dollars? Or, does he ask us all to sign his warchest over to Obama?

By: Lis Riba

Lis Riba — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:08:09 +0000

Aw carp, carp, carp.
And ditto to Mr. Terwilliger’s comments; he’s still got my vote.

By: Susie

Susie — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:29:04 +0000

If it helps any, I suspect Elizabeth is in bad shape - she hasn’t been around much lately. If that’s true, I’m sure he wants to spend his time with his family.

By: Maya

Maya — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:04:21 +0000

So sad. And angry. And confused. I got an email from the campaign yesterday that said they were close to beating a 3 month fundraising record in one month, and please send more money.

Back to the nose-holding I was expecting for this election…

By: Mr. Terwilliger

Mr. Terwilliger — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:00:18 +0000

I really wish he had waited until after next Tuesday so I could have voted for him. I guess the ballots are already printed, so I think I’m gonna vote for him anyway.

By: Heath

Heath — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:55:19 +0000

This is a shame. Sen. Edwards demonstrated an intense desire to speak up for those without a voice in our current political environment, and helped to push the agenda of the Democratic Party primary to address those made worse off by our economic policies over the last few decades.
I was happy to support his campaign in the small ways that I could, and I for one will miss his efforts to make our national government more truly responsive to us all.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:54:04 +0000

I haven’t felt so bad since election day 2004. I guess there really is no hope for my country to be restored.