Edwards' Iowa Express bus breaks down

LA Times ^ | Jan 2,2007

[AmericanMade1776]

Oops!

To cap off his four-year campaign to win Iowa's Democratic caucus Thursday night, John Edwards planned a 36-hour marathon bus tour through 15 of the crucial state's 99 counties with a whole series of policy announcements to garner publicity and caucus votes.

But 12 hours into the political odyssey -- billed as Edwards' "Marathon for the Middle Class" -- his Main Street Express bus began making very disturbing noises in western Iowa. In darkness, the bus with the entire Edwards entourage pulled over at a service station and was abandoned.

Oh, the awful symbolism for a political campaign struggling to overcome a new Des Moines Register poll showing him behind Hillary Clinton and way behind -- like eight points -- this senatorial upstart Barack Obama in what everyone admits is a make-or-break contest for Edwards presidential hopes in the Hawkeye state, where he finished second to John Kerry in 2004.

[Lurking in Kansas]

Or maybe Hillary intervened.

Ding... ding... ding. We have a winner!

[SueRae]

I don’t find it tacky at all. I agree with you. If I or anyone else I knew had cancer and young children, my first priority would be to send as much time with them as I could, not running a hopeless campaign that doesn’t have a snowballs chance (even in Iowa) of winning......