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I received this in an email today from one of my fellow Clark County for Edwards folks:

Earlier this afternoon I got to listen on a conference call in which John and Elizabeth Edwards personally spoke to offer their gratitude for the support they received from us and to explain what caused him to reconsider continuing the campaign. There was a bit of speculation among the peanut gallery about whether there were money issues or maybe even Elizabeth’s condition taking a turn for the worse. I can tell you that money was not an issue, JE is sitting on a major wad right now. No mention was made about Elizabeth’s health. What John did talk about was the importance of electing a Democrat this November and it became clear following the South Carolina primary that he was not going to be that Democrat in 08. John was prepared to continue the campaign through at least June during which time he could (and probably would) pick up enough delegates to prevent a clear winner for the nomination prior to the national convention in August. Meanwhile, however, the results in Florida yesterday suggest that a breakout candidate is clearly emerging on the Republican side. The stars seem to be aligning for McCain and may well win the nomination well before their convention. The concern lay with having the Republican Party united behind their nominee while the Dems were still fighting it out. The reasoning followed that in a two person race a Democratic candidate has a pretty good chance of winning the nomination relatively quickly; that was not possible with the current three-way contest. I have heard John Edwards say many times that the campaign was not about him. What he did in withdrawing today was to meet his words with deed. That he absolutely did the right thing is perhaps of dubious consolation to some right now.

[emphasis mine.]

A man who is willing to sacrifice himself for the good of the party is exactly the kind of person of character we desperately need right now. I feel like I’m in the middle of The Gift of the Magi.

But, time to move on. I worry about Hillary Clinton’s ability to beat John McCain head to head. There are just too many people who have an instinctive hatred/fear of Hillary, and too many people who have the mistaken impression of John McCain as some kind of straight-talking “stateman” with foreign policy expertise. So perhaps the best use of my time, since I don’t think Obama needs any help from little old me, is to hang McCain with his own words:

Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters on Sunday, “It’s a tough war we’re in. It’s not going to be over right away. There’s going to be other wars.” Offering more of his increasingly bleak “straight talk,” he repeated the claim: “I’m sorry to tell you, there’s going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars.”

At a recent meeting with the Wall Street Journal editorial board, Republican presidential candidate John McCain admitted he “doesn’t really understand economics”…

Because what the U.S. really needs right now is another president who doesn’t understand economics.

Q: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years — ” (cut off by McCain)

McCain: “Make it a hundred.”

Q: “Is that …” (cut off)

McCain: “We’ve been in South Korea … we’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea 50 years or so. That would be fine with me…”

There’s much more, of course - particularly concerning religious conservatives and his slavering attempts to align himself with them (after calling them “agents of intolerance” in 2000). Feel free to add your own Pander-Bear (™ Sam Seder) quotes in the comments.

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  1. This goes back to my Deja Vu post earlier about Edwards following Dean’s footsteps. Dean, according to Dean, dropped out of the race to ensure Kerry unified support. (Dean was out of money unlike Edwards though.) How did that work for us?

    Edwards was probably promised administration employment by both remaining candidates and that led Edwards to give up the ghost IMO. He may also have not wanted to be the spoiler down the road and there is absolutely nothing wrong with avoiding that fate.

    Let’s hope the plan works better this time.

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    1. Above comment written by bushtoolNo Gravatar on January 31st, 2008 at 10:50 am (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  2. McCain is correct on one point. Until the frantic Muslims are defeated soundly, we will have to fight them. But no, we don’t have to stay in Iraq for 1 more year. The Iraq people have had enough time to get their act together.

    And if our next President decides to invade a country, then do it the right way. That is destroying 2/3 of the country and destroying at least 1/2 of the population. Cruel, yes, but when you invade a country, do it right at the beginning, and then have the (Marshall plan) ready to move in and help rebuild what we destroyed.

    Also put the surviving population to work to help rebuild their country and train them to govern themselves. But their is no need to invade any country. What our elected bottom feeders need to do is to start working for Americans. Cut foreign aid way down, use that money here at home. Come up with a fair flat % income tax, that everyone pays that %.

    This war on the frantics can be over with in 60 days if our elected leaders wanted it to. But corporate America is making too much money from this, so it will never happen.

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    2. Above comment written by AllenNo Gravatar on January 31st, 2008 at 2:10 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  3. Allen, you are so right about

    corporate America is making too much money from this.

    I think the “fanatic (I assume you meant fanatic and not frantic) Muslims” problem is wildly overstated.

    There have always been fanatics and terrorists in the world and to think we can cleanse the world by threats, war, spying, incarceration and torture is a fool’s errand. Killing people with kindness may not always work but what we are doing now is guaranteed to fail.

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    3. Above comment written by bushtoolNo Gravatar on January 31st, 2008 at 2:34 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  4. Allen, you really think we should have gone into Iraq and killed 12.5 MILLION people? Aside from the war crimes aspect, how you could personally live with such an outcome? Why does your right to live without fear of “frantic Muslims” trump their right to simply LIVE? I will never understand that kind of thinking.

    I am not afraid of Muslims, or any other race, nationality or ethnicity. Why should I be? What have they done, in numbers, that can compare to the death and destruction we have achieved in the last 7 years? What scares me is what fearful white men, with the most devastating military machinery ever known, will do to make themselves feel virile and invulnerable.

    Yes, 19 men belonging to a violent cult killed almost 3,000 of our citizens in one day. But 9/11 was not the work of the Muslim world or the government of Afghanistan; 19 disgruntled and disenfranchised Arabs, mostly Saudis, lashed out at the handmaidens of their repressive and decadent government. And in response our whole society rained hell down on Iraq - a national that had nothing to do with the cult that attacked us - and killed a million civilians. How does that make us the better people?

    “Frantic Muslims” aren’t the problem. The problem is we prop up unstable dictatorial regimes in order to feed off the oil tit, and reap the violence that we sow.

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    4. Above comment written by slimNo Gravatar on January 31st, 2008 at 2:55 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

  5. Slim, I guess I didn’t state that right. First, I am against any war, but if it does become necessary, you use the utmost force you can bear against that country, and yes, it’s cruel, and yes, innocent people will be killed. And Bush screwed up going into Iraq, but since HE made that decision, he should have listen to his military advisers. But BUSH is so stupid, he knew better than people who have made a career studying military history, and how to conduct war.

    So no, we should never have invaded Iraq. And the big corporations that run this county make money off the war machine, and Bush and his vice-president represent those corporations, what do you expect?

    Also, we do have to defeat the radical nuts, weather they are Muslims, Mormons, Southern Baptist, etc. It’s the fringe idiots of any religion that thinks there way is the only way. If you disagree with this, then I would have to assume that you think women, all women, are second class citizens because of someone beliefs.

    And I also agree with Bushtool, we are failing using the present tactics. Any person with common sense will agree that going into Iraq was a disaster. So was NOLA a disaster because of our present elected/stolen bottom feeders.

    I also think Bush was right going into Afghanistan and he even F**ked that up. This and this alone should wake all Americans up to what kind of President we have. The man has failed at almost anything he has tried to do.

    Our foreign policies are also at fault. Most countries hate us, yet we keep giving them foreign aid. Why? Use that money here at home to help fellow Americans, and if any is left over, then help the poor countries, not with money, but farming machines and advisers, etc. You can’t buy friendship, just other bottom feeders. And that is coming home here to roost.

    It’s time our own elected bottom feeders start working for American citizens, not illegals, not corporations, but the American people!

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    5. Above comment written by AllenNo Gravatar on January 31st, 2008 at 4:19 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).
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