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Dear John Edwards: Please contact Barack Obama's people asap. Obama needs your endorsement now, in advance of Super Tuesday, and in return you could probably get any cabinet position you wanted in an Obama administration.
You should also seriously consider being Obama's running mate.
Yeah, I know you've run for VP before, and you guys consider it a step down to run for VP again. But think what a powerful ticket you guys could make. You could deliver some Southern states for Obama.
And if you're still interested in national politics, being Vice President isn't half bad.
Think about it, dude.........
Poor Romney. He's rich as Midas, movie-star handsome, he's bright and well informed, he's got the perfect family, he dresses well enough to be on the cover of GQ, and he's taking all the correct conservative positions.
And yet Republicans are falling over one another in their haste to endorse McCain, the old war horse with the doughy face, cheap suits, and the liberal positions on many issues.
Can't figure out these Republicans.....
The Clinton team has come to bear a striking resemblance to the Machiavellian Republican strike force headed up by Karl Rove in '00 and '04, you know, the same bunch of guys that slimed John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 with rumors of a black love child.......the guys who got those "Defense of Marriage" initiatives on the ballots in 13 key states in '04. Remember how that brought out the mouth-breathing, Bible thumping friends of Jesus who felt their own marriages threatened by same-sex couples walking down the aisle?
So Hillary conveniently leaves her name on the Michigan and Florida ballots after the other candidates withdraw theirs.
Anything to gain an edge. Bill and Hillary have shown that they're really desperate to get back to the White House, where they can wallow in dynastic narcissism for another 8 years.
This Democratic contest is taking on the stark overtones of good vs. evil, isn't it?
Speaking purely as a Democrat who believes the most important thing is to get a Democrat into the White House in '08 so we can begin to reverse the damage of the Bush years, I say we need to thunderously repudiate Hillary and Bill Clinton and their amoral, win-at-any-cost brand of politics. The Clintons are little more than the Democratic version of Karl Rove, and if we're going to move beyond the nasty, divisive politics of George Bush and his team, we need to repudiate it on both sides of the aisle. Do you really want Hillary and Bill representing you in the general election, trying to sleaze John McCain (a decent, albeit misguided man) the way they've tried to sleaze Obama?
Wake up, fellow Dems. John Kerry, Tom Daschle, Patrick Leahy and a number of other prominent Democrats have already endorsed Obama over Hillary, and Ted Kennedy will endorse him tomorrow. Caroline Kennedy says Obama is very much like her father, JFK.
Are you going to wait for Al Gore's endorsement before you jump on the Obama bandwagon?
Speaking from a Democratic perspective, I think we need to throw Hillary under the bus so we can win this election.
Either Obama or Edwards would cream whoever the Repubs throw up there. (McCain is way too old to be president and once people realize he would continue the failed Bush foreign policy, he is toast. And do you really think Romney or Huckleberry could be elected president? Rudy is their best hope but he is deeply flawed and has more baggage than Paris Hilton setting out for a weekend in the Hamptons.)
It's not at all certain Hillary could win a general election. There are so many who hate her, and Hillary would motivate every last one of them to come out and vote. And they'd bring a Hillary-hating friend to the polls with them.
And even if Hillary should be elected, her administration would be so divisive, so polarized, and so ugly and contentious. We've just had 7 years of that with Bush. Do we really want that kind of administration again?
Throw her under the bus.
When Hillary was way ahead in the polls, she was regal and serene and somewhat unapproachable.
But ever since she started losing her lead to Obama she has been, by turns, desperate, petty, shrill, and very disappointing.
It's like she took off the mask of invincibility and now we see the real Hillary. And naked ambition is not a pretty sight. It's become clear that she and Bill will do just about anything to gain the White House for her....no dirty trick is too dirty for them, no sleazy accusation is too sleazy for them. The Clintons have sold their souls to further their political ambitions and in the process they've forfeited just about all of my respect.
Bill should have stayed in the role of ex-president and elder statesman and Hillary should have stayed in the Senate.
I was an early supporter of Hillary for president, but during the course of this campaign it's become clear who the real class of the Democratic field is. His name is Barack Obama.
Well, Camille, I can discount the reflexive CP-haters at Salon who set up the chorus every month calling for your scalp. It seems they'll hate you no matter what you write.
But the ones who've criticized you over your use of the term feminazi have a valid point.
Why in the world do you use this term that is so evocative of Rush Limbaugh and all the malice-driven right-wing crap he stands for?
Maybe you used that term to be provocative, Camille, but all you've done is diminish your credibility.
For once I agree with your critics.