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John Edwards Endorsement Talks Underway

  |   February 11, 2008 01:11 PM


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UPDATE: Tonight's meeting between Obama and Edwards has been postponed, according to ABC's Political Radar:

While it is unclear which party ultimately pulled the plug on tonight's meeting between Obama and Edwards, sources indicate the meeting will be rescheduled in coming days.


No cause was given for the abrupt rescheduling but sources have indicated that the Obama campaign and Edwards wished that the meeting would be done in private without massive media attention.

Former Sen. John Edwards "met with Hillary Clinton Thursday in North Carolina, and is meeting with Barack Obama Monday, to discuss a possible primary endorsement." CNN reports:

The Thursday meeting, which took place at Edwards' home in Chapel Hill, was followed by a Saturday night session during which the former North Carolina senator and several longtime advisers discussed many issues, including which candidate he should endorse. [...]


At a Chapel Hill party yesterday for Edwards supporters, he gave no indication who he might endorse, or whether that endorsement is imminent. Some advisers are encouraging him not to endorse.

The former candidate is weighing a number of considerations before making his choice - including electability, and who will best promote his ideas.

There are policy considerations at play: there is a sense within the Edwards camp that Clinton's policies could be better for working class Americans. But Obama's anti-lobbyist proposals are more aligned with Edwards' politics.

In response to a CNN report that Elizabeth Edwards may favor Obama over Clinton, sources close to the Edwards family flatly deny that she favors one candidate over the other.

Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central spoke to an Edwards aide who offered more details, including: "There's a greater than 50% chance he will endorse."

The Edwards aide cautioned against reading too much into the meetings, saying that he'd been talking to both of them before. "He's torn," the aide said "He has reservations about Hillary, which are pretty apparent."


On Obama, the aide says, Edwards worries "whether he's tough enough to be President of the United States. If you look at what Edwards ran on, which is not negotiating with the special interests, taking away their power, that's pretty different than the Obama model."

The Edwards aide added that Obama's lack of a health care plan with a "mandate" is a "tough hurdle for him to get over." He added, however, that Edwards is much more in line with Obama on other issues.


 
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Edwards is such a drama queen. I believe he's lost nearly all respect and credibility. He didn't have to endorse any one, but he could have took the more dignified route of Joe Biden and Al Gore who announced they would stay neutral. Or have the balls to endorse promptly like Kucinich did because he really believed Obama was the next best thing to himself.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:19 PM on 02/24/2008


Jeeze - Obama supporters are clueless about politics.

You don't need Edwards or his supporters to win the general?

You don't need Hillary's supporters to win the general?

You're going to win against ROVE & company all on your own?

And in November when the GOP starts revealing all the secret terrorist plots against the USA using the old "mushroom cloud" scare tactics, Obama will say:

"We have HOPE to keep us safe. The Audacity of HOPE will protect us from terrorists!"

Yeah - you'll win against McCain. Right.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:15 AM on 02/24/2008
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Edward's relevance diminishes more and more each Tuesday.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:26 PM on 02/22/2008

Barack Obama dose not need John Edwards!!! Tell one reason why he needs him. I can hear you.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:29 AM on 02/22/2008

Mr. Edwards. Thought you cared about the American worker:

Hillary Clinton Flip Flops on NAFTA (Meet The Press)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ0swdRvYgw

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:09 PM on 02/21/2008

Dear Senator Edwards:

Please hold off on your endorsement of Obama until you read this website with several informative reports of Obama's dealings with Rezko, the fraudster now under Federal indictment.

Because, once this trial begins in early March, the mainstream press will finally have to pay attention to Obama's questionable ties to Rezko's dubious business deals.

It would be a shame that you would risk your reputation endorsing Obama just weeks prior to the flurry of press this trial will attract.

http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-bagman-is-sent-to-jail-over-35m.html


    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:27 PM on 02/19/2008

http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/files/2008/01/clintons_rezko.jpg

Hillary: 4,000 dead American heroes. 19,000+ injured. She voted for that. 23 brave Senator didn't. Obama railing againt the war

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:34 PM on 02/21/2008

A.U.M.F. was a firewall to stop and divert Bush from a fall (pre congressional elections) invasion (liberation) of Baghdad.

The US campaign to change the Iraqi regime started at end-July (2002), quietly, step-by-step, without a war declaration, without congressional approval and without much noise.

The Nation: "Antiwar forces in the United States and around the world can claim the recent UN resolution as a partial victory. The resolution does not endorse the use of force; it redefines the Iraq crisis, at least in the international arena, as one of disarmament, not regime change; and it will at least delay a US attack".

Hillary was PRO U.N., Bush was Pro War, Obama was PRO doing nothing
http://www.zendurl.com/s/scorched///prewar.htm

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:27 AM on 02/22/2008
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He has just voted to fund it, again and again

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:23 AM on 02/24/2008
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i can not believe how uncritical you are. i read the story at the URL you posted and does not sa anything about obama except that he knows a criminal. remeber rezko is not obama's child, and is a grown up man who made bad choices. so why do you want to attribute someone's crime to an other person. and for your info, obama relations with this guy existed oprior to the scandal. So please drop this nonsense and if you do not want to vote for him, then don't. But do not smear him.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:36 PM on 02/21/2008
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Hillary knows a crimminal too...and he was even impeached!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:07 PM on 02/21/2008

You're flagged for your troll-like conduct. Get it together already!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:39 PM on 02/21/2008

Is that kind of like whitewater? Or maybe those cattle futures? oh wait wait more like that Kazachstan deal, huh?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:30 PM on 02/21/2008
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Was it 60 million that was spent on Whitewater just to prove it nothing?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:22 AM on 02/24/2008
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Edwards should not endorse and should follow the lead of our rightful President, Al Gore by insisting the voters decide this and nothing like Chicago 1968 come out again.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:26 PM on 02/18/2008
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Edwards will be somebody's VP.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:16 PM on 02/21/2008
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As a democrat and an Edwards supporter I can appreciate the need to get an "endorsement". However, I think Edwards also realizes that his supporters are individualistic and will follow their own heart. I don't need a politician to to tell me how I should vote or whom I should support, so regardless of Edwards decision, my support will be for Barack Obama.

After reading his book "The Audacity of Hope" I realized that this man is far deeper than his speeches. That his understanding of the democratic process reaches beyond the bickering and petty discourse that has enshrouded the process for the last three decades. His vision of change is paramount if we are to move forward and change the mindset of Washington D.C....With Clinton or McCain, I just see the same ole Washington that I have come to despise.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:42 PM on 02/18/2008

I thinks Edwards should endorse Hillary Clinton. I think she is far more respectful of Edwards than Obama is...Obama seemed to be distancing himself from Edwards while answering a question from a reporter today. I think Edwards would have a far greater chance to be President in the future (or Supreme Court Justice or anything he wants) if he endorses Hillary.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:33 PM on 02/18/2008
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What was the question? Where did you see it?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:45 PM on 02/21/2008
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where pray, in all those accumulated reports does with work "sneak" appear? You gone Daily News on HP??

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:26 PM on 02/18/2008

You must be new here.;)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:27 PM on 02/23/2008
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I still maintain that the photo of the two looks like an FBI surveilence tape of mafia types meeting in a quarry.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:15 PM on 02/18/2008

I think Obama had entranced a lot of young people and some older who are so anxious to have something better then Bush that they are falling for a snake oil salesman because his rhetoric sounds good. We can't afford to make a mistake because four years of Mccain will be no different then having Bush in the White House.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:07 PM on 02/18/2008

To John and Elizabeth Edwards -

As a longtime admirer, I'm gritting my teeth at the volley of reports that you are going to endorse Hillary Clinton.

I just wanted to note, with all respect and good humor, that Molly Ivins weighed in on Hillary in a broadside only Molly could deliver. We can only imagine what she would say now, but here she is in 2006:

http://freepress.org/columns/display/1/2006/1304

I think she would share your concerns about Obama but I believe she would go along with Gary Hart:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/politics-as-transcendence_b_86490.html

I can't tell you how much I hope that you will endorse Obama. He at least does not represent, as the Clintons do, business as usual and, for what it's worth, one of the most embarrassing campaigns in recent Democratic history.

For our children, for our grandchildren - we have to try something else.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:22 PM on 02/18/2008

Edwards as VP, what a depressing thought. That that prevaricating trial lawyer greedy for power could be second in line is almost as scary as Cheney in the same position.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:02 PM on 02/18/2008
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Abraham Lincoln and John Adams were "trial lawyers" too. Do you hate them too???? ;-)
I LIKE trial lawyers myself: they're better than greedy corporation lawyers.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:57 PM on 02/18/2008
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People who listen to Rush Limbaugh actually think that calling someone a trial lawyer is an insult. Shows how much they know about how the world works.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:00 PM on 02/18/2008
    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:33 AM on 02/22/2008

I grew to respect John Edwards in the early stages of the presidential race, but if he flip flops to endorse Clinton at this stage I will never support him again.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:46 PM on 02/18/2008
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