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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Edwards: The Howard Dean of 2008?

posted by on February 7 at 17:50 PM

So says TIME Magazine.

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Is that a label anybody in this race wants to have?

Posted by Chris | February 7, 2007 6:34 PM
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If right-wingers criticized Dean's choice of bloggers, he'd have told them to fuck off.

Posted by tsm | February 7, 2007 10:10 PM
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Hardly, as Dean was web-savvy, but Edwards immediately stumbled out of the gate by bowing to Right-Wing pressure to fire two of his bloggers. Watch those netroots curl up and die for Edwards (and migrate to become Hillaranians or Obamatons).

Posted by Andy Niable | February 7, 2007 10:14 PM
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Time magazine is reading for the newly literate.


Listen haters...all politicians bow to pressures...if they didn't--they'd be Bush. Who gives a fuck? It's a popularity contest by definition so let's get behind someone who's all, "Guess what? The budget is always unbalanced—get over it." So what if Hilary is a policy wonk, or that Obama is a super nice guy that everyone likes—it doesn’t matter how smart or nice a president is—they can f-up anyways. Over intellectualizing candidates is useless and pretentious (and it legitimizes the political imagizing of the media)—let’s just get behind someone sane and hot.


I wish Edwards would get behind me ; P

Posted by Lyly | February 8, 2007 2:21 AM
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Progressive, my ass. He gives me a weird vibe, an insincere vibe. Perhaps this is the politician thing, but it is heavy coming off him. He just seems so damn slick.

Posted by Stephanie | February 8, 2007 7:33 AM
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Well at least we won't have to suffer through Edwards for very long. We all know that he has no chance of getting the Dems nomination.

Posted by maria | February 8, 2007 8:31 AM
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he has failed vice-president candidate written all over him....

Posted by michael strangeways | February 8, 2007 9:16 AM
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If you mean he'll finish 3rd in the first few caucuses and drop out of sight once the Dems get behind someone else, then yeah.

Posted by Gomez | February 8, 2007 10:20 AM
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noone reads TIME anymore. But, he has a long way to go.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 8, 2007 10:20 AM
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Edwards is creepy. He made his money in medical malpractice. Basically he is part of the health care problem, not the solution. He does not have a sincere bone in his body.

Posted by Cameron | February 8, 2007 11:23 AM

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