John Edwards On Leno: Jokes About Basketball With Obama And His Decision To "Run As A Middle-Aged White Man"

Anyone who labels somebody or something socialist/communist, as though the two were interchangeable or identical, needs to be called out immediately for dissembling and deception. Anyone who thinks "socialism" is the same as "communism" either doesn't know the definition of either, or is a bald-faced liar. Otherwise that person would have to picket outside that nasty COMMUNIST FIRE DEPARTMENT to shut those commie bastards down. According to the criteria that one would use to label Edwards a socialist/communist, half the conservative Republicans in office would also be socialist/communists. This kind of stupidity needs to be called out for the propagandistic tripe it is over and over until everyday Americans no longer fall for it.

Why the "should" imperative? "Should" here is just another example of how the Obama cohort seeks to leverage a kind of DISTORTED, racial GUILT to win a campaign otherwise consisting of rah-rah flummery. If "verlaine" needs absolution, he/she should find a priest

Why such venom? I was an Edwards supporter and did not care whether or not he's 'insufferable narcissist' or not but listened to what he was saying. I now support Obama and it seems to me he is saying that we should stop engaging in this irrelevant and venomous discourse.

Left, I am in total agreement!
How I wish we had a real chance for a change next January.

.....so, anyone and everyone who supports Obama is just short of a WAR CRIMINAL/ grafter bent on sliming HRC....? This is almost as paranoid and self-righteous as the venom-laced pabulum the Obama myrmidons serve up....

Edwards trumped both in his compass of the issues and early willingness to present solutions; unfortunately(?), he didn't/couldn't command a cadre of IDENTITY POLITICS fanatics like HRC and certainly Obama. The Democratic Party will regret this viscissitude....!

You are so much louder in capital letters.

I think it's hard for Edwards to pick a candidate because his heart says Hillary as they are more aligned on most of the issues (the lobbyist etc things are the exceptions), but he also knows that Obama will probably be the nominee, so if he picks Hillary, he blows any chance of having some part of the Obama administration.

"Obama is just another corporate Democrat"

Neaguy, what are you basing that statement on? It is important that any facts about this be brought up now. I can understand how you would conclude that Hillary is NOT a corporate shill. Everyone knows how frugal she is as demonstrated by her ability to write a $5 million check to her campaign from the savings off her Senate salary and not even miss it. But Obama?

You know, there's an important message buried in the rant above. Anything any Obama supporter says can somehow be turned intosomething Obama himself said -- even when he's never heard of the person who said it. We all know that Obama, or his official campaign staff, have never once brought up the situation darlamc mentions here. But I've sure seen some of my fellow Obama supporters drag it into the discussion on this blog and others. Why? It accomplishes nothing, and reflects poorly on the candidate we support. If you truly want him to be elected, stop giving those you hope will join you in voting for him reasons *not* to vote for him! Can we keep the rhetoric civil, on point, and honest here? If so, we might actually be able to sway some people to our side.

To suggest that anyone who doesnt support Obama is a "fake, fraud, and phony" is a problem. It's you psychotic Obama supporters that are going to cost Obama the election because of your obsessive attacks on anyone that doesn't agree with you. How Bush-Republican-Cronyist of you.

The real fakes, frauds, and phonies of the Democratic Party are the Obama supporters who all of a sudden claim that Bill Clinton was a horrible president and we don't want to go back to those times. I'm sure before this race started you didn't feel that way. But now that Bill is associated with your candidate's competition, you have to denigrate anyone and anything that associates with the Clintons. Now THAT makes YOU a fake, fraud, and phony.

He was the only populist candidate fighting for the middle class and disadvantaged, and didn't respect the others' corporate agendas.

That's why he hasn't endorsed either of them, because he has no respect for what they represent - Corporate America.

Did it ever occur to you that John Edwards was the only anti - Corporate candidate and didn't respect their corporate agendas.

Edwards is a hapless dilettante and a table-pounding populist gasbag who runs a vanity campaign for President every four years.

He's holding out his all-important "endorsement" until he gets the best offer from whoever is obviously going to win.

After reading Russ Feingold's piece about Edwards, I agree with you.

He didn't have the personal pressures Richardson did. Richardson compromised by waiting--then followed his conscience, which I admire.

It's too late now to think that John Edwards is doing anything other than trying to cut himself the best deal.

John Edwards did the right thing by getting out - he couldn't light himself on fire and get noticed, since the race was clearly about Obama and Clinton. If Edwards threw his support to either, when he left, and that candidate didn't run away with the nomination, it would have been wasted. Better to hold it.

Now, throwing his support could be the thing that helps propel Obama towards the nomination. Endorsements don't seem to last too many news cycles, they turn into numbers quickly, and the YouTube clips get the focus again. Now that Richardson endorsed Obama, if Edwards were to endorse, or it suddenly was leaked that he was being considered for the ticket, that might just create a wave to get us out of this rut we're in about faith-based influences.

verlaine,
You're having a hissy fit.

John Edwards can endorse whomever he wishes. However, I do agree with your final statement.

He was my choice by far, and now we're stuck with these two.

I'm sick.

They promised him they'd continue his populist message.

HAH!!!!

No, I think it's a "C", for Commie. Who cares???