With the North Carolina primary just days away, speculation is rife on why former N.C. Sen. John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, have not yet endorsed a presidential candidate. The speculation has settled on three possibilities:
A. Honest broker: Edwards, Al Gore and other neutral parties are holding back on endorsing so that, if need be, they can step in and help settle the nomination.
B. Wants to be AG: Edwards is hedging his bets because he wants to be the next Democratic attorney general fears if he endorses now he’ll pick the loser. There is also a rumor in North Carolina that he’s holding out for the VP slot.
C. The Edwards are split: Most of John Edwards’ former supporters in Congress have given their super-delegate endorsements to Obama, but Elizabeth Edwards is said to support Clinton. She endorsed Clinton’s healthcare plan over Obama’s (and McCain’s) earlier last month.
As John McLaughlin would say — the answer is A and C, but not B. Both Clinton and Obama have already picked their fantasy cabinets by now, and most presidents prefer to nominate an attorney general from within their inner circles.
I am voting for the “A” choice. There is going to have to be some level heads at the convention.
John Edwards was the only viable candidate for the working class people and due to his moral high ground position of abiding by campaign limits he was not able to mount a campaign dominated by the graft and corruption of the Clinton, Obama, and McCain campaign funded by political corrupters.
Due to this the career politicians and the Washington insider corruption defeated the only real choice for change in the federal quagmire.
The choices we have as voters in this election is to vote to continue the “Big Business” and “Big Oil” War policies of the current administration with McCain, or the illegal Hispanic supporting block catering Clinton, or the Islamic Black catering Obama.
I would have voted for Mr. Edwards in a heartbeat the only thing better than an Edwards administration would have been if he had gotten Jesse Ventura to run as his VP.
The way the election is going now the working class and retiree’s have no candidate to work on their behalf.