John Edwards Drops Out.
The real question will be whether he was legit in developing his voice and backbone. I still think it’s funny how much he changed over the past 12-18 months. Now if Hillary jumps out to a lead, will he endorse her to snag vice-president. Or will he stick to his guns and continue to critique Clinton and praise Obama’s change. I find it kind of odd that he wouldn’t go ahead and endorse a candidate one way or the other. Especially since he’s been so opposed to Clinton and on Obabma’s side. Instead he’s “going to hang back and “does not plan to endorse either Clinton or Obama at this time but he may do so in the future.” Sounds a bit opportunistic to me.
dave
Wednesday, 30. January 2008 um 1:50 pm Uhr
What is worse than the lack of endorsement is that is it appears that many of the Edwards voters will migrate towards Clinton rather than Obama, at least according to polling on demographics/ideologies of those supporting Edwards.
I also do not think that Edwards will be a Vice President for either candidate.
Josh Brown
Wednesday, 30. January 2008 um 1:55 pm Uhr
granted it’s cnn, but they’re saying the opposite. they think they’ll lean obama.
and i don’t know about the VP. i can’t figure out edwards. at a surface level, i agree with you. but at a deeper level (i.e. reading too much into it) i think he wants in bad.
blake
Wednesday, 30. January 2008 um 2:11 pm Uhr
what i want to know is what happen to his “i’m against the status quo” riff? according to that he should have already made his endorsement.
if he doesn’t jump out to endorse obama before super tuesday my already shaky view of him is going to fly out the door. if he doesn’t i think clinton and obama will, by and large, split his vote. but surely he won’t hang back just to keep the doors open for a VP bid regardless of where it comes from.
we’ll see.
dave
Wednesday, 30. January 2008 um 4:06 pm Uhr
Oh… don’t get me wrong – I think Edwards wants the VP slot. I just don’t think he will get it.
Maybe he will go back to his moderate views that he had long held before he lost in ‘04.
david
Wednesday, 30. January 2008 um 4:39 pm Uhr
heehee.. get out of town! An opportunistic politician? How rare…
As Jim Wallis would say, John Edwards continues to hold his finger up in the wind.
cindy
Wednesday, 30. January 2008 um 6:01 pm Uhr
and…um, which part of american politics do ya think isn’t opportunistic?
c. wess daniels
Friday, 1. February 2008 um 1:57 am Uhr
great thoughts josh.