Slog - Comments on The Edwards Endorsement http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement Just watched a livestream of John Edwards endorsing Barack Obama. First thoughts: Edwards could have talked about himself a little less and the crowd in Michigan could have booed Clinton a lot less. Also, I don't know that I saw a natural pairing when these two were on the stage together. It didn't look as if Edwards was really enjoying sharing the stage, for one thing, and more importantly hearing them both speak one after another reminded me how similar their core messages are—both talk about uniting America, getting beyond old divisions, changing the way politics is played in Washington,... Copyright 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:30:41 -0800 Thu, 15 May 2008 10:24:04 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Dave Coffman And the wind in Clinton's sail after the WV ballot goes bye bye.

]]> Dave Coffman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024885 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:29:46 -0800 Comment by Steagle Wesley Clark? He wrote a book this year.

]]> Steagle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024890 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024890 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:32:22 -0800 Comment by thehawke I don't think he is running to become the VP. AG maybe but not VP.

]]> thehawke http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024892 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024892 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:33:14 -0800 Comment by Steagle That would be a damn handsome ticket.

]]> Steagle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024894 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024894 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:33:35 -0800 Comment by skye now give him your delegates!

]]> skye http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024904 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024904 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:40:17 -0800 Comment by dreamboatcaptain John Edwards looks like a sneaky cat

]]> dreamboatcaptain http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024914 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024914 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:46:08 -0800 Comment by max solomon a 3rd for Wesley Clark.

he's handsome; a silver fox & a 4-star general who DIDN'T FUCK UP. he's well known to hard-working FOX-watching white people.

plus, a hillary loyalist as VP is a likely compromise solution at the convention.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024915 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024915 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:46:45 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle There's a reason why more American women voters are for Obama instead of Clinton.

Yes, that was not a typo.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024918 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024918 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:48:32 -0800 Comment by daniel Man I'm glad he's winning. If Clinton was the nominee I don't know if I could get over the blatent, ugly racism that many Democrats—Democrats!—have displayed throughout this campaign.

]]> daniel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024945 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024945 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:58:03 -0800 Comment by gillsans I'd definitely go for Edwards for VP. I was prepared to caucus for him, but he dropped out a week or so before I could.

]]> gillsans http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024993 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1024993 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 17:25:49 -0800 Comment by joykiller Yes, what the Democratic ticket needs is another effete one-term senator. That really ought to "wow" the undecideds.

]]> joykiller http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025033 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025033 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 18:01:03 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Eli: First thoughts are not your strength. Count to ten before posting next time.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025041 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025041 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 18:16:04 -0800 Comment by Trevor Eli: Following your reasoning, Obama should nominate McCain to be his VP.

]]> Trevor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025052 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025052 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 18:29:35 -0800 Comment by freshnycman I was assuming they'd go with a crusty old white guy to pair with obama, but the fact that edwards looks extremely waspy, and has his whole 'look, my wife has breast cancer' thing could be an attraction for the democrats to ensure they don't lose any women-vote

Not meaning this to be cynical as much as realistic politics...

]]> freshnycman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025053 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025053 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 18:31:29 -0800 Comment by neo-realist Max@7, the only thing that Clinton will accept is herself at the top of the ticket, nothing less.

Obama could use a guy w/ foreign policy gravitas on the ticket, e.g., Richardson, to blunt criticisms of inexperience and weakness in foreign affairs.

]]> neo-realist http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025082 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025082 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 19:02:22 -0800 Comment by Dave M Unlike Ohio, those of us in Michigan remember that Clinton supported NAFTA. Especially those of us who go to Obama rallies.

I guarantee you if Obama had been on the Michigan primary ballot, Clinton would not have done well.

]]> Dave M http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025086 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025086 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 19:06:22 -0800 Comment by Epimetheus For what is worth (not much, I know) Edwards is why I was voting against Bush rather than for Kerry in '04, yea, subtle difference, and in WA wouldn't have made any difference how I voted for president (though Gregoire is probably happy I voted Democrat)

This time the Slog is why I'll be voting for McCain, I don't have anything against a first term senator who sounds like a broken record, hey, I thought invading Iraq was stupid too, but some of the the Obamatrons here are just over the top, still, Mr. $400 haircut makes it that much easier to vote for the winner this time.

]]> Epimetheus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025101 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025101 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 19:27:05 -0800 Comment by Cale Richardson, Clark or Edwards would all be fine with me.

Edwards is fairly popular in the south...

Clark could seriously blunt McCain's biggest strength.

Richardson, besides being completely awesome would help with the Hispanic vote.

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025109 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025109 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 19:31:13 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell Bill Richardson or Jim Webb. Unfortunately Hillary has proved this country is more backward than we thought, and a Black/Hispanic ticket might be too much for the drifting Republicans Obama might catch. Wesley Clark? Joe Biden would be a good choice with his foreign policy credentials, but Delaware is in the middle of everything and would get him exactly nothing. Plus, we need two YOUNG men (or women - not you, Hillary) up there to highlight how old McCain and whatever cadaver - Charlie Crist? - he's bringing onstage with him are. Webb's a veteran, his son's in Iraq, he's young(ish) and managed to win a Senate seat in Virginia, first Dem in I don't know how long.

Unfortunately, I don't think anyone much cares what John Edwards thinks. There's something about that guy people don't like, as right as he is on the issues. I totally agree with him on just about everything, yet count myself in that camp. The guy just rubs me the wrong way. Still it's good to get a nice inevitability hit once a day. Keep 'em comin.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025122 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025122 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 20:00:21 -0800 Comment by Phoebe I was surprised by the booing. I've never heard booing of Clinton at any Obama speech, and I've seen a lot of them. But then it ocurred to me that Michigan Obama supporters have had to listen to Clinton going on and on about the importance of Michigan, and how Michigan's primary results should be accepted because we don't want to disenfranchise them. So Michigan Obama supporters didn't even get a chance to vote for him, and now the votes of the other candidate are supposed to be counted in the name of enfranchisement?

I would be booing myself hoarse.

]]> Phoebe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025189 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025189 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 21:39:47 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Am I the only one who thinks Wesley Clark seems gay, gay, gay, like gayer than Anderson Cooper gay? Four-star general or not, I don't see how he helps Obama.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025241 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025241 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 22:43:15 -0800 Comment by Sarina Obama/Edwards is the dream ticket but it won't happen. Edwards told Larry King the other night that he's not interested in being the VP. He's moved on and formed a coalition of non-profits to cut poverty rates in half within two years.
So booyah! No John on the ticket. Our loss.

]]> Sarina http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025268 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025268 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 23:52:04 -0800 Comment by lurker their messages are very similar due to the same Axelrod who managed Edwards in 2004. similar message with Deval Patrick in 2006 and now Obama in 2008. wake up. it is all Axelrod who is pulling the strings.

]]> lurker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025341 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025341 2008 Thu, 15 May 2008 09:03:36 -0800 Comment by fluteprof My money's on Edwards trying to play the role of Al Gore, Part 2: the millionaire crusader. No way he's veep this year.

]]> fluteprof http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025364 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025364 2008 Thu, 15 May 2008 09:27:37 -0800 Comment by Original Monique I think Feingold or Bloomberg would make the best VP choices. White, Jewish, saavy with economics and money. Both have already bridged the "divide" to the GOP. And they are both progressive.

Word.

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025399 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025399 2008 Thu, 15 May 2008 09:49:58 -0800 Comment by Soupytwist Edwards is a milquetoast tool. He'll drag down any D ticket if he's VP.

I do like the idea of him as AG, though.

I'm still crossing my fingers for Clinton on the ticket with Obama, but I'd be happy with Richardson or Feingold.

]]> Soupytwist http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025464 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/the_edwards_endorsement#c1025464 2008 Thu, 15 May 2008 10:24:04 -0800