John Edwards quits the race

puremagic

Holding press conference.

ledvedderman

Rudy and Edwards in one day?

As David Lee Roth would say in "Unchained"..."woooooooo weeeeeeeee"

I wonder who he will throw his supporters to. If it's not Obama, then that is fucking weak.

mammasan

My girlfriend is going to be disappointed. She was an Edwards supporter. I think he will endorse Obama.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

It's getting down there.

Gravel has outlasted Mr moneybags a.k.a. $400 haircut Edwards?

It's starting to heat up.

cornnifer

ledvedderman wrote:

Rudy and Edwards in one day?

As David Lee Roth would say in "Unchained"..."woooooooo weeeeeeeee"

I wonder who he will throw his supporters to. If it's not Obama, then that is fucking weak.

An Obama endorsement would be sweet, though i doubt he will endorse either candidate. He will probably remain neutral. We'll see. i also heard a rumor of a soon pending Obama endorsement from Al Gore. i can't back that up with anything substantial though. Gore and Edwards would be huge endorsements.

cornnifer

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

It's getting down there.

Gravel has outlasted Mr moneybags a.k.a. $400 haircut Edwards?

It's starting to heat up.

This isn't a dig on Gravel, but, simply refusing to drop out does not quite equal "outlasting".

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Either way he's going to endorse the pro imperialistic candidates.

Can't wait for the blow back this time around.

kaboom...

cornnifer

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Either way he's going to endorse the pro imperialistic candidates.

Can't wait for the blow back this time around.

kaboom...

:rolleyes:

ledvedderman

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Either way he's going to endorse the pro imperialistic candidates.

Can't wait for the blow back this time around.

kaboom...

Did you just post something that didn't have the word "zionist" in it?

I think I just pooped my pants in shock.

mca47

I really doubt he'll endorse either candidate. I hope he endorses Obama, but I don't see it happening.


I'm hoping for a Obama/Biden ticket but wouldn't mind seeing Obama/Edwards.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

ledvedderman wrote:

Did you just post something that didn't have the word "zionist" in it?

I think I just pooped my pants in shock.

I pop your head a lot too...

there a few layers of knowledge you're behind on when it comes to foreign policy.

ledvedderman

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

I pop your head a lot too...

there a few layers of knowledge you're behind on when it comes to foreign policy.

You got a fucking bell chart to back that up too?

RolandTD20Kdrummer

ledvedderman wrote:

You got a fucking bell chart to back that up too?

Don't need one...

it all right here in black and blue...

ledvedderman

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Don't need one...

it all right here in black and blue...

http://s101.photobucket.com/albums/m48/conversationpc/?action=view&current=moron.jpg

cornnifer

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/30/edwards/index.html

"does not plan to endorse clinton or Obama at this time, but may do so in the future."

i'm thinking sometime after he sees how tsunami Tuesday shapes up. :rolleyes: Opprotunist.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

ledvedderman wrote:

http://s101.photobucket.com/albums/m48/conversationpc/?action=view&current=moron.jpg

amazing how you provide ZERO intellectual content thus far.

but tons and tons of pointless opine and blather...

that's about it...nothing more to you it seems

Oh well...

cornnifer

ledvedderman wrote:

http://s101.photobucket.com/albums/m48/conversationpc/?action=view&current=moron.jpg

Gotta love it.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

cornnifer wrote:

Gotta love it.

Post #16 applies to you more actually.

You can't even discuss actual issues of what your candidate stands for. All you do is spin in air based on opinions of how you feel about him.

sweetpotato

puremagic wrote:

Holding press conference.

He's the BEST guy for the job, and we deserve whatever we get now. :(




Edwards expected to drop out of race
Presidential candidate steered his rivals toward progressive ideals
BREAKING NEWS
The Associated Press
updated 9:43 a.m. ET, Wed., Jan. 30, 2008

DENVER - Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals (DAMN STRAIGHT) while grappling with family hardship that roused voters' sympathies but never diverted his campaign, according to The Associated Press and NBC News.

The two-time White House candidate notified a close circle of senior advisers that he planned to make the announcement at a 1 p.m. ET event in New Orleans that had been billed as a speech on poverty, according to two of his advisers. The decision came after Edwards lost the four states to hold nominating contests so far to rivals who stole the spotlight from the beginning — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

The former North Carolina senator will not immediately endorse either candidate in what is now a two-person race for the Democratic nomination, said one adviser, who spoke on a condition of anonymity in advance of the announcement.

Family duty
Edwards waged a spirited top-tier campaign against the two better-funded rivals, even as he dealt with the stunning blow of his wife's recurring cancer diagnosis. In a dramatic news conference last March, the couple announced that the breast cancer that she thought she had beaten had returned, but they would continue the campaign.

Their decision sparked a debate about family duty and public service. But Elizabeth Edwards remained a forceful advocate for her husband, and she was often surrounded at campaign events by well-wishers and emotional survivors cheering her on.

Edwards planned to announce his campaign was ending with his wife and three children at his side. Then he planned to work with Habitat for Humanity at the volunteer-fueled rebuilding project Musicians' Village, the adviser said.

With that, Edwards' campaign will end the way it began 13 months ago — with the candidate pitching in to rebuild lives in a city still ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Edwards embraced New Orleans as a glaring symbol of what he described as a Washington that didn't hear the cries of the downtrodden.

Edwards burst out of the starting gate with a flurry of progressive policy ideas — he was the first to offer a plan for universal health care, the first to call on Congress to pull funding for the war, and he led the charge that lobbyists have too much power in Washington and need to be reigned in.

The ideas were all bold and new for Edwards personally as well, making him a different candidate than the moderate Southerner who ran in 2004 while still in his first Senate term. But the themes were eventually adopted by other Democratic presidential candidates — and even a Republican, Mitt Romney, echoed the call for an end to special interest politics in Washington.

Loyal following
Edwards' rise to prominence in politics came amid just one term representing North Carolina in the Senate after a career as a trial attorney that made him millions. He was on Al Gore's short list for vice president in 2000 after serving just two years in office. He ran for president in 2004, and after he lost to John Kerry, the nominee picked him as a running mate.

Elizabeth Edwards first discovered a lump in her breast in the final days of that losing campaign. Her battle against the disease caused her husband to open up about another tragedy in their lives — the death of their teenage son Wade in a 1996 car accident. The candidate barely spoke of Wade during his 2004 campaign, but he offered his son's death to answer questions about how he could persevere when his wife could die.

Edwards made poverty the signature issue of both his presidential campaigns, and he led a four-day tour to highlight the issue in July. The tour, the first to focus on the plight of the poor since Robert F. Kennedy's trip 40 years earlier, also was an effort to remind voters that a rich man can care about the less fortunate. It came as Edwards was dogged by negative coverage of his personal wealth, including his construction of a 28,000-square foot house, his work for a hedge fund that advised the superrich and $400 haircuts.

But even through the dark days of summer and as Obama and Clinton collected astonishing amounts of money that dwarfed his fundraising effort, Edwards maintained a loyal following in the first voting state of Iowa that made him a serious contender. He came in second to Obama in Iowa, an impressive feat of relegating Clinton to third place, before coming in third in the following three contests.

The loss in South Carolina was especially hard because it was where he was born and he had won the state in 2004. But Edwards performed well enough to pick up 58 delegates.

Check back for more on this breaking news story.


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URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22913001/?GT1=10755

cornnifer

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Post #16 applies to you more actually.

You can't even discuss actual issues of what your candidate stands for. All you do is spin in air based on opinions of how you feel about him.

Actually, you're full of shit. Talk about spin. Sheesh. Are you going to follow me around from thread to thread all day popping off about ubsubstantiated "zionist, warmongering, Obama bullshit all day, or are you tired yet?"

sweetpotato

I wish he would've hung in there until Super Tuesday. I believe he could've taken alot of delegates then.


FUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This truly sucks.