Edwards proves that he’s as much a fraud as I always thought he was
Edwards endorses Obama. Why today? To distract attention from Obama’s humiliating defeat in West Virginia, of course. Anything to keep people from noticing that Hillary is winning.
18 Responses to “Edwards proves that he’s as much a fraud as I always thought he was”
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KC says:
I’m so disappointed in Edwards right now. From one of the articles on CorrentWire quoting Edwards:
I think they’re both very strong on the issue … and Sen. Clinton has been working on this for decades, and particularly focused on children,” Edwards said. But poverty, he added, has been “central to Senator Obama’s life.”
WTF? He admits that Hillary has actually made a priority of dealing with poverty, especially poverty amongst children, but is going with Obama because he was allegedly poor?
Hell, I grew up in a no electricity, no plumbing shack in the mountains of east Virginia. Does that make me more qualified than Obama whom, to my knowledge, has never focused on poverty unlike his opponent?
May 14th, 2008 at 7:55 pm EST -
Violet says:
“Central to Senator Obama’s life”??? That’s ridiculous. Obama grew up privileged, not poor. He went to a private schools, has never gone hungry, etc. And his alleged community work in Chicago was nothing but a resume filler. What he mostly did was make political contacts and accept money from people like Tony Rezko the Slumlord, whose tenants were without heat.
But I’ve always thought Edwards was a fraud. He’ll say whatever he needs to say to get whatever prize he’s angling for.
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ModDem says:
Hillary isn’t winning. She won yesterday, yes. But she’s not winning. She’s actually pretty far behind.
Why is Edwards a fraud for supporting Obama over Clinton? I’ll bet you liked him prior to today. -
Violet says:
Actually she has the lead in the popular vote. Actually she and Obama are pretty much neck-and-neck.
Actually I’ve never liked Edwards.
Actually you’re an asshat.
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KC says:
ModDem,
I did like Edwards and that’s why I’m disappointed with his endorsement of Obama as he pretty much admits that even though Hillary is the stronger candidate for an issue he pretty much built his campaign around, he’s going with Obama instead.
How can you not see that this is, at the very least, hypocritical of him? Seriously, suppose he’d centered his campaign around Iraq and then came out for Hillary instead of Obama. Would that not cause you to say “WTF?!?”?
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Violet says:
Of the three leading Democrats who started out in the race, Obama is the one least likely to do anything for poor people. No universal health care, and ominous noises about privatizing Social Security. He’s in thrall to his corporate backers and advisors.
Edwards is a fraud.
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Apostate says:
And how about this? I’m fucking pissed. OUTRAGED.
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Violet says:
That was mentioned in the mob thread, I think. I was too disgusted to write a post on it. Riverdaughter had a good one up.
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Violet says:
And your post is good too (she adds after going over and reading it at Apostate’s blog).
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sister of ye says:
Violet, I’m glad to find someone who shares my view on Edwards. I could never forget his rolling over for Cheney like a puppy wanting his belly scratched in 2004. I could only think, “This is the hard-nosed trial lawyer who’s supposed to be a dogged fighter for the little guy?”
And while I didn’t like what the media made out of it, I shook my head over the $400 haircut. I mean, that’s more than my rent for a month. For a bloody haircut?
How you can claim to be passionate about achieving universal health care and ending poverty, then support the guy who sent out “Harry and Louise” remix flyers and has a stable of libertarian economic advisors, escapes me.
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thebewilderness says:
I think it is possible that a deal was cut with Edwards. He was not at all happy with Obama after the discussions they had.
I can see no reason for Edwards not to have maintained the negotiating power of his delegates unless he got what he wanted. Whatever that was. -
BettyB says:
I just sent Hillary another $100. Edwards and Sweetie in one day put me over the edge.
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Peep says:
Still, Zelizer said, Edwards’ delay feeds a perception that he’s a self-serving phony.
“The timing of his endorsement is classic Edwards,” Zelizer said. “One of Edwards’ greatest problems is that he doesn’t seem authentic. He made his whole campaign about populism, but I think a lot of people see him as a traditional senator who’ll say whatever it takes to win and who cares about his hair. He comes out after the race is basically over. He doesn’t have to take any risk; he’s endorsing the winner. It’s always good to get an endorsement, but if this is about a running mate, there’s a lot of serious thinking the Obama campaign would have to do before they go with him.”
McClatchy Newspapers 2008
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kenoshaMarge says:
I sad to say was an Edwards fan. Actually an Elizabeth Edwards fan more than her spouse. Does it not show an incredible amount of tackiness to not only endorse the day after the good citizens of WV overwhelmingly repudiated Obama but to do it in the state where both of these asshats took their names off the ballot to pander to the voters of another state?
Some people may allow some pandering politicians endorsement to sway them one way or another. I do not. I’m quite capable of making up my own mind, thank you very much, and I don’t need help from any endorsement.
I don’t know if this endorsement swayed any voters. Me, it just pissed me off.
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No Blood for Hubris says:
I did like Edwards, but I like him less today.
He’s trying to help Obama with white Kentucky voters — the bloc that Hillary was recently crucified for having even mentioned existing, much less that she was doing well with them.
Now all of a sudden, Hillary’s racist and pulling a southern strategy, but Obama gets away with it via Edwards?
Old Boyz Network.
Spare me.
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Susan Mayhew says:
Edwards motives are transparent - AND Obama is throwing money at anyone who can walk and chew gum at the same time. It was telling that Elizabeth didn’t chime in.
This is another indicator of the Obama campaign tactics - he’s trounced in w.va - so to kill her story he drags Edwards back into the limelight. I frankly don’t think that this endorsement is key- perhaps the endorsement from Hamas will carry more weight on a Republican ad in the fall - but then, Obama’s given them so much to work with, it will be hard to chose a topic.
And without my and many many of Hillary supporters’ votes - that ship has sunk. -
Susan Mayhew says:
“ModDem says:Hillary isn’t winning. She won yesterday, yes. But she’s not winning. She’s actually pretty far behind.Why is Edwards a fraud for supporting Obama over Clinton? I’ll bet you liked him prior to today.”
….Like all Obamabots ModDem ‘knows’ what we’re thinking. HOW do they DO that? Hmmm but gee, this assumption is off - wasn’t it clear that most of us DIDN’T like Edwards or he’d be the con man on the fake church pulpit today rather than BO. -
Beth C says:
Another sleazy malpractice lawyer now high on my s**t list along with Richardson. Being a loser I doubt his endorsement will mean that much anyway, and doubt he is high on the VP list.
Yes, Obama’s ploy was to take the spotlight off Hillary’s big victory in WV, but she got him back after South Dakota. Gotta love her!
