Apparently, John Edwards is among those in the Democratic Party who fear that Barack Obama’s content-less platitudes are a souffle that will quickly deflate under withering attacks being readied against him by GOP operatives, should he become the Democratic nominee:
As he weighs a possible endorsement in the Democratic race, former Sen. John Edwards is as split as the party he once hoped to lead — and is seriously considering supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, despite the sharp criticism he leveled at her on the campaign trail, according to former aides and advisers.
In deciding between his one-time rivals, Edwards appears deeply divided. Several former advisers likened his thought process to a heart-versus-head split — with his heart favoring Sen. Barack Obama’s strong message of change, and his head attracted to Clinton’s tested nature and commitment to tough fights.
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On Obama, the [unidentified Edwards] 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.
While there is ceaseless debate about whether Obama’s political experience qualifies him to be president — Abraham Lincoln had less; George Bush had more, so go figure — one thing is not debatable: He has never run in a competitive race against a Republican. He held a safe seat for three terms in the Illinois Senate, and when he attempted to unseat incumbent Rep. Bobby Rush, the former Black Panther, he was defeated in the Democratic primary. His GOP opponent in the 2004 U.S. Senate race was Alan Keyes, a laughingstock African-American pundit who moved to Illinois to take on Obama but ran a shoestring operation and never launched a meaningful, much less aggressive, campaign.
Despite Edwards’ wavering, the odds favor his endorsing Obama because, for one thing, the party’s momentum is moving that way. But if Edwards did not have grave doubts about Obama’s ability to take on Republicans and his readiness to be president, he surely would have endorsed him by now.
If Edwards was so sure of Clintons ability to withstand the “withering” GOP attacks, he would have endored her by now. His not endorsing can be spun either way.
Who has Clinton beaten in a tough election? No one. In fact, she is having a hard time beating a neophyte with her “35 years of Experience”.
Obamaniacs are like crystal meth users in their delusional sense of invulnerability to their opponents.
They see no danger, hear no warnings, and feel no fear.
Delusional also in assuming so much from a presumed victory over Clinton, an opponent hog-tied by PC rules that favor Obama with up to now 24/7 anti-clinton conservative mainstream media coverage.
The belief that the Republithugs will NOT use race is truly astounding, even here in pensito review it’s rarely mentioned as if the Republithugs won’t go there.
Uh yes they will, and they’ll go there over and over and over and over.
To believe as a nation we are over racism, because Obama has a chance is ludicrous. If the nation consisted exclusively of liberal democrats perhaps, but the rest of the nation is to the right and a good 3rd. to the extreme right of the Democratic mainstream.
Within independent voters there is an easily tapped insidious form of racism that Republithugs have proven masters at exploiting.
Turning Obama from a prophet of change into a drug-using, law-breaking, plagiarizing, bribe-taking inner-city type along the lines of the former mayor of Washington Barry won’t be that hard for them to do in that group.
The progressives who worship Obama don’t get it.
None of this will be done to convince them of anything.
Republithugs don’t give a damn what they think.
In fact most of it will be geared to get their goat, for the louder they complain, the easier it will be to tag them as ideologues out of touch with reality - the mirror image of right-wing republithugs of course, but unlike their mirror image, the progressives and liberals LOST the image war. They will have NO defense against the invitable smears.
If Hillary were to win, the general campaign would be ugly, but if Obama does win, be prepared for the ugliest, most blatently racist presidential campaign since the 1800s.
And if the Obamaniacs think playing the racism card will cost them, they’re idiots. It worked for every candidate so far.
They’ll just redo the willy horton ad and somehow connect it to Obama, and make it seem like he’s did “whatever” because he wanted to help aother black man (the truth will be IRRELEVANT)and of course they’ll darken Obama up just enough to make people wonder if the media is doing the opposite.
Their goal is not to convince anyone he’s evil, but to fill enough people’s heads with enough doubts so that his msg. won’t get through, and wonder if he is Black first and American second.
Considering the nature of the widespread insidious racism of mainstream Americans, this is going to be a cakewalk for the Republithugs, and Democrats by nominating Obama will hand them an election that was the Democrats to win or lose.
It will be a cakewalk, because the Obama machine seems to be so taken by its own words about uniting Democrats, independents and Republicans that they simply do not realize how oxymoronic that statement is.
They are opponents, because they have strong opposing views.
They are NOT opponents just because they can’t get along.