With Edwards Relevance Trumps Respect

I like the idea of using names that identify immediatly that we ain’t no f***ing Obama troll. Great idea.

You can’t get a cent from me Edwards, nor my vote for Obama.

“The son of a millworker.” I can just see Edwards at a twelve step program.
“yes, hello. My name is John and I’m the son of a millworker.”

Edwards is irrelevant at this point, in my opinion. He put himself out there, but he’s taking heat for it as well. He’s earning his place at the table, I guess.

He wasn’t able to sell his own populist message, and he sure isn’t going to sell it for Obama, either.

Kentucky will disabuse everyone of that idea.

This flurry of attention is short-lived.

Why would John Edwards cash in all of his political good will to distract the nation for 30 minutes during the evening news?

That’s what his endorsement was all about – an evening of distraction. Let’s not listen to hundreds of thousands of West Virginia voters. Let’s listen to John Edwards tell us how much he cares about the poor and universal health care while he endorses the candidate whose positions favor neither.

Of all the endorsements, this one was the cheapest…. why would he hold out so long to offer up his endorsement in the cheapest of manners. I hope he enjoys feeding at the trough with Richardson.

I’m not sure Edwards ever recovers from this politically ….

Tuesday, Hillary Clinton achieved an amazing feat. Outspent as per usual, and with less campaign offices than Senator Obama, and despite the added obstacle of George Stephanopoulos, Bob Schieffer and company electioneering on national television, on voting day no less, saying “the nominating contest is effectively over,” West Virginia voters showed up in record numbers and Senator Clinton shellacked the ‘presumptive’ nominee to the tune of 41 pts.

I should call Senator Obama the presumptuous nominee. That is truly all he is – an arrogant, empty suit. Of course, it was too humiliating for “the One” to let her victory stand. He could not even be bothered with a concession speech or have the decency to acknowledge the voters of West Virginia and instead allowed them to be called illiterate and irrelevant on national television by cretins the likes of Chris Matthews.

Today, Senator Obama, continuing to show his classless sore loser/sore winner behavior, delivered another outrage as the boys’ club had to gang up on Hillary yet again.

In order to steal the victorious news cycle from her, John Edwards allowed himself to be ill used by picking today of all days to endorse Senator Obama. I wonder if Edwards received a large contribution to his own foundation?

John Edwards has shown himself to be likewise nothing more than an empty suit and a hypocrite. His unfortunate actions have reduced him to the $400 hairdo that negatively characterized him earlier in this campaign. Edwards clearly said on national television weeks ago that he would only endorse the candidate for Universal Health Care. Well, that is Hillary and Hillary alone. Even Elizabeth Edwards voted for Senator Clinton. How disrespectful to his wife and everything she works for and stands for.

Furthermore, Senator Edwards allowing himself to be used this way by Obama and stabbing Clinton with this horrible timing is cruel and I hope will backfire, because once again it looks like the boys are piling on. This is heartbreaking for another reason. After John Edwards dropped out of the race, Obama blew his meetings with John and Elizabeth. They saw him I’m sure, as I see him: an inexperienced, arrogant know-it-all; a dissembling shape-shifter under corporate control.

People stand with Hillary because they believe in her, not because they have been bought off. Edwards now raises all those questions again of his sincerity to work on behalf of poverty while operating from his multi-million dollar mansion, and allying himself with a corporatist, who spits on Democrats while praising Reaganomics. I wonder if Elizabeth Edwards will have the courage to stand up for what is right and come out and endorse Hillary Clinton – the only candidate who truly gives a fig about the working class and health care for all. Senator Clinton actually does what Senator Obama can only pontificate about.

I am not sure how much weight John Edwards’ endorsement carries at this point. It simply looks low and tacky to me. After all, this is a man who was not even able to carry his own home state in 2004, so I am not sure how far his coattails will carry the insincere and elitist Senator Obama with working voters. If there is any justice in the world, it will not carry far at all and it is sad that John Edwards in one moment has thrown his own credibility out the window.

I wonder if he was aware, when he made his announcement today and mentioned Hillary’s name to compliment her, the nasty Obama supporters booed her, and though John Edwards was gracious enough to stop them, the man behind him – the one running for President of the United States – smiled at their rudeness, once again advantaging himself by their tasteless behavior, and showing his true self. I hope John Edwards has an opportunity to view this footage and see clearly with whom he has just made his bed.

One can only hope he hangs his head in shame tonight.

“There is one man who knows and understands that this is a time for bold leadership. There is one man that knows how to create the change, the lasting change, that you have to build from the ground up.”

And ever since 2003, I thought that man was John Edwards. I feel I’ve been lied to once again. So I wrote to Edwards in response to an email I received today. I told him how sad and disapointed I was re:his endorsement. And I said I could not support his foundations or another candidacy of his again.

“Obama’s non-stop money-making machine”

Yeah, I’d like to know where all that money is coming from. I find it hard to believe it’s all from a netroot network of small-scale donors.

Who are Obama’s REAL donors, and what do they want in return for the $$$?

Look Edwards endorsed because of unrelenting pressure on him for the last 3 months to do so. Like I have already said, next week when Obama gets stomped in Kentucky, Edwards will be roundly faulted for not endorsing him earlier. Edwards will just be another one thrown under the bus for letting down the Dear Leader. Hell now the Obamabots are going after Al Gore for not endorsing.

When I watched the Edwards announcement the expression on Obama’s face seemed to seeth with resentment and anger that Edwards had taken so long and was so solicitous and admiring of Hillary Clinton when he finally endorsed.

For the most part Edwards has been very respectful of Hillary Clinton. The one comment about her colorful suit at the one debate not withstanding.

The Obama candidacy is now simply incredibly lame. It is a complete shambles that rests upon the mere testimonials of others who have drank the kool-aid.

It has all the crediblity of one of those late night “Extenze” infomercial. You may claim “Extenze” makes it bigger, your girlfriend and wife may go along in claiming it is bigger but that don’t make it so.

The same geniuses behind “Extenze” are wrong for Alexrode.

Edwards could have retained the respect and admiration of millions of Hillary voters by simply keeping his mouth shut. Being a politician he was naturally unable to do that.

If he was under pressure to endorse Obama and he caved to that pressure then he proved that he wasn’t strong enough to be president.

Obama has shown over and over again that he’s a wimpy, whiny little man. Hell if you want a really strong candidate, elect his wife. She may not be “likable enough” to many but she seems to be a fighter at least.

The perception of John Edwards as being “effete” will not help Obama. Until Obama does something to show that he’s a fighter he might as well have a big target painted on his forehead for all the Republicans to zoom in on come the GE. And I don’t think he can do something to show he’s a fighter because I don’t think he has it in him. You can’t turn a poodle into a pit-bull. It just doesn’t work.

Now our Hillary, there’s a pit-bull. She’s a fighter. She’s smart. She’s hard working. She knows her business. She’s loyal. (Has Hillary thrown anyone under the bus?)

It’s easy to see why so many millions of her supporters want her to be the nominee. It’s also easy to see why Obama supporters hate her; she makes him look like such a wimp. And a John Edwards endorsement is not going to change that image one tiny little bit.

The timing of John Edwards’ endorsement was decided to take away Hillary’s West Virginia victory. The treachery and duplicity of Edwards is unforgivable. I rather vote for John McCain over Hussein Obama, and I am a lifelong Democrat. Hillary is the only viable and electable candidate we have.