Bamas Breakfast in Little Italy: http://www.chicagogluttons.com/bamas-breakfast-in-little-italy
Posted on 05/15/2008 7:32:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by former Senator John Edwards is a signal, though not an absolutely decisive one, of a shift in the commitment of the Democratic Party's unpledged centre.
It is partly a result of sheer momentum - Edwards said as much when he said that the voters had evidently made their choice "and so have I" - but partly also a feeling of alarm at the way in which Mrs Clinton has polarised the campaign, and gone so far as to polarise it along ethnic and racial lines.
Edwards himself ran a campaign very much along class lines, and is a white liberal from a southern state. He is known to have expressed private disdain for the way in which both Clintons have been campaigning, and is also known to have received regular telephone calls frrom Senator Obama soliciting his endorsement.
The fact that he withheld this so long, and then flew all the way to the hotly-disputed state of Michigan to be by Obama's side, suggests very strongly that it is only recent developments that swayed his decision, and the most recent devleopment is the emergence of Mrs Clinton as the self-declared candidate of the "white" vote.
Advertisement It's almost impossible to exaggerate the shock that this tactic has created in liberal Democratic ranks, echoing the alarm and repugnance that was felt for Richard Nixon's so-called "Southern strategy" a generation ago. It is particularly ironic, given the very heavy emphasis that both the Clintons have placed until recently on their close relationship with America's black community. The level of their support among black voters, in all recent polls, has been subjected to a precipitate drop that reflects considerable anger and resentment.
Senator Edwards cannot absolutely commit the delegates he would have brought to the convention in Denver but he was the party's joint standard-bearer in the last contest and he is symbolic of the way in which a section of the party is at least acknowledging what is beginning to look inevitable. However, when I described his own shift as "not absolutely decisive" I meant to draw attention to something that did NOT happen at the Michigan endorsement. Senator Edward's campaign and indeed career have been heavily dependent on the input and participation of his wife Elizabeth, who very often appeared on her own as the spokeswoman and is known to wield great influence with him as well as to occupy a very warm place in the heart of the Democratic party's rank-and-file. She did not fly to Michigan with Senator Edwards and, lest anyone attribute this to her recent battle with illness, also let it be known that she was not lending her name to the endorsement. So there are still some areas where the Obama charm has not yet fully penetrated.
Obama’s going to have to publically endorse gay marriage before Elizabeth will announce her presence with authority, for BO.
He sure used a lot of words just to say that that the greedy bambulance chaser is after the Attorney General job in a Bama administration.
Yeah, sure. Obama hasn’t played the race card at all. I also like how the rich cracker Edwards plays the class divide.
These 2 morons were made for each other.
I’m amazed how the MSM has greeted Edward’s support of Obama as the Second Coming. Look at the facts. Edwards is a shyster trial lawyer who couldn’t even carry North Carolina, his home state, in the ‘04 election. He didn’t run for reelection to the Senate because the polls indicated that he’d be overwhelmingly defeated. His run for president recently with his socialist “two America’s” nonsense reaffirmed his reputation as a serial loser. He’s endorsed Obama and is hanging around because he hopes to become Attorney General or get some other plumb.
Bamas Breakfast in Little Italy: http://www.chicagogluttons.com/bamas-breakfast-in-little-italy
Sounds like Silky Pony wants to be Veep!
This low grade moron writer, “His wife is important in..”
She was hired by a Soros concern a month ago, as if the tea leafs were not already in place and saying what they were saying a month ago.
You can be assured Obama was high bidder. He didn’t make his move without a promise.
Was that an intentional pun, a Freudian slip, or just a misspelling?
plumb (plm) n. 1. A weight on the end of a line, used to determine water depth. 2. A weight on the end of a line, used especially by masons and carpenters to establish a true vertical. adv. 1. In a vertical or perpendicular line. 2. Informal Directly; squarely: fell plumb in the middle of the puddle. 3. also plum Informal Utterly; completely: plumb worn out. See Note at right. adj. 1. Exactly vertical. See Synonyms at vertical. 2. also plum Informal Utter; absolute; sheer: a plumb fool. v. plumbed, plumb·ing, plumbs v.tr. 1. To determine the depth of with a plumb; sound. 2. To test the verticality or alignment of with a plumb. 3. To straighten or make perpendicular: plumb up the wall. 4. To examine closely or deeply; probe: "Shallow ideas are plumbed and discarded" Gilbert Highet. 5. To seal with lead. v.intr. To work as a plumber. Idiom: out of/off plumb Not vertical. [Middle English, lead, a plumb, from Old French plomb, from Latin plumbum, lead.]
I think the word plummet (to fall) may come from the same Latin root.
Or perhaps this is all related to your screen name "Sink".
Or perhaps The Breck Girl can be First Lady.
yeah. by the time the breck girl jumps on the bandwagon, you can bet it's gotten most of its momentum already.
She's no lady!
Or maybe Edwards held off until a time of maximum damage.
Hillary's free press ride after West Virginia was derailed by Edwards. Who knows, Hillary's next big win might bring Gore to Obama's side.
Do powerful dems dislike Hillary as much as we do?
Just in time for summer “reruns”. Bring back the hair video!
It’s just a common figure of speech, as in “political plumb.” I think people who are anxious to ascribe Freudian interpretations to commonly used conversational nouns have some other things to worry about.
Elizabeth Edwards is the wife of John Edwards. Is she a superdelegate? What now... do the wives have to get up there now too when a superdelegate endorses someone? This is getting absolutely comical.
Glad to see that Hitchens mentioned Edwards’ use of “class warfare” in his VP campaign.
He is nothing but a liberal-chic Marxist-lite who doesn’t mind having had 4 homes worth over $12 million, clear-cut a hill to have a 29,000 sq ft monument to himself built on it, and took his client-victims to the cleaners, his.
What a piece of crap. Oh, I forgot, he is a leader of the Democrat Party. Sorry!
The Clintons have a right to be shocked. He was their “Black President”. He put his office in Harlem. The blacks fully supported the Clintons.
Oh, but then a black man ran for President. Sorry, Bill and Hillary — race trumps all.
Nobody should be expected to vote for someone of another race when there’s someone of their OWN race running.
Oh — I mean if it’s a BLACK person.
If whites said they were going to vote for the WHITE candidate, it would be evil and racist.
But given two liberal democrats, one of which has long enjoyed overwhelming black support, the black man gets 90+% of the black vote — that can ONLY be racism, there is no other plausible explanation.
And the white democrats will remember how the blacks turned on the white woman to vote for the black man.
It’s time for Rush to dig up the information about the WACO hearing where Conyers went after Reno, and Rush explained that it was only because he was a black man and she was a white woman.
There is a reason that, 30+ years after the civil rights movement, and in the era of enlightenment, there is only one black in the senate, even though half the senators are democrats, some from democrat states where there is virtually no republican opposition, which means the democrats could run anybody they want.
In Maryland, when they had a choice to elect a black man, or a white man, the democrats chose the white guy. Then they did it again in the general election when the republican candidate was black.
If I were cynical, I’d say that Silky Pony is after the Veep spot.
If I were really, reeeeeeally cynical, I’d say that Silky Pony agrees with Hillary “I’m White! Vote for Me!” Clinton that Obama is in fact unelectable, and therefore SP is supporting Obama merely so that he can lose, and SP will then have another shot at the whole thing in four years.
But that would be cynical to think that, wouldn’t it?
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