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Former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards will endorse Senator Barack Obama at an event in Michigan today. Edwards, who dropped out of the Democratic hunt for the nomination back in January, had been expected to support Obama, especially after statements referring to him as the likely nominee.
Edwards and Obama appeared to team up to attack Clinton during a debate in New Hampshire earlier this year. When Clinton was claiming Obama was inconsistent with his views, Edwards said:
Any time you speak out powerfully for change, the forces of status quo attack...[Obama] believes deeply in change, and I believe deeply in change. And any time you’re fighting for that, I mean, I didn’t hear these kinds of attacks from Senator Clinton when she was ahead.”Former presidential adviser David Gergen had said in January that Obama could pick up 60% of Edwards supporters, which could be very helpful given that even in last night's West Virginia primary, Edwards got 7% of the vote.
The endorsement will take place shortly--ABC News says it's to have it in time for evening newscasts.
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I'd love to see Edwards get the VP spot. I was an Edwards supporter before he dropped out of the race. It'd be one helluva combo, I think.
I couldn't stand Edwards after the way he kept stabbing Kerry in the back by doing whatever he wanted to do on the campaign trail. Hell of a way to repay someone for picking you as his running mate. I hope after two lost presidential campaigns, he'll just go away and never be seen in public again. Hey, Edwards, you did badly in 2004 and worse in 2008. It ain't gonna happen. Good riddance.
Edwards is a weasle with his moronic "I wanna eradicate poverty" and "I want to take all the best teachers, and put them in the poorest neighborhoods" statements. I don't think he even believed himself. Thus, it's good for Barack because there were many people who inexplicably liked him. He reminds of a democratic Dan Quayle.
Who cares? the dems are doomed! Too much infighting. all you can pray for is oldass McCain having a heart attack or getting cancer which is actually a really really good probability.
Howard Dean for VP
Obama is embrscing this guy only because he's the route to the White South, a trailer camp that currently managed by Hillary Clinton. Other than that, John Edwards is just a barking dog, a shitty millionaire barking dog.
Way to wait until the nominee was practically guaranteed John. ;)
Edwards LOST the nomination in 2004 and 2008, was on the LOSING ticket for POTUS in 2004 against George W. Bush, and he isn't even a superdelgate.
Why does anyone care what that LOSER thinks?
Edwards is not a good choice for VP. Gore, maybe. But he will probably not do it. He's probably better off with someone no one has really heard of or considered. Someone the public can "discover".
It's an interesting situation.
Edwards may be exactly what Obama needs... white, working class, white... (did you know his father worked in a mill? LIttle known fact.).
But Edwards is such damaged goods as a VP candidate that I can't see it working. Problem with Edwards is he can only sing one song... his own.
I can't think of a worse choice for VP. Why pick a southerner when you have no chance in hell of carrying those states? As for working class, his street cred went out the window went he sued his way to millions. Nobody wants to be lectured on two Americas by a guy that is the very definition of the problem.
If Obama and Clinton and the Democratic Party as a whole were really interested in putting the country first, Clinton would drop out now, Obama would offer the VP slot ASAP and they would romp their way to a November victory. Instead, I think Clinton's massive ego comes before public service.
my thoughts...
Edwards will help deliver to Obama NC, GA, MS, AL and other southern states that have, since 1968, voted primarily Republican.
The timing of this could not have been more perfect. He's a big name, regardless of how the other posters feel about him and his endorsement will, especially at this time, help move the pro-Hillary part of the party to coalesce around Obama once he secures the nomination.
Edwards won't be the VP candidate - he's more likely to be Attorney General.
East River,
Keep in mind the Bob Barr candidacy - he's going to draw a lot of votes away from McCain in the south.
I have a feeling that Obama will do at least as good as Clinton in 92, especially if he picks a southern VP candidate. My hope is that Wesley Clark gets the nod.
aerosolhalos, i doubt it very much -- he count even carry his own state last time. I think people are placing too much hope that the general election will look like a democrat only primary/caucus. Particularity the caucuses have almost no relevance to what a general outcome will look like but they are the cheapest to conduct so some states use them.
Edwards has already said he would not accept a VP nom. Wes Clark should be VP.
kissel,
Republicans have lost 3 seats in 3 special elections in heavily Republican districts in the past couple of months. Furthermore, this is not 2004 and McCain won't have the enormous advantage of being a popular incumbent with the base of the Republican party.
I think the likely scenario is that the Democratic voters come out in droves, negating the effect of the racist contingent that will cross party lines to vote white. This coupled with Barr's splitting of the conservative wing of the Republican base means that most of the southern states with a 15-20%+ African-American population will swing to the Democrats.