Down to Two...

...John Edwards has bowed out of his race for the Democratic presidential nomination. He will not give his endorsement to either Obama or Clinton for now and instead has promises from both that they will talk about the issues that mean the most of him (poverty, help to the poor, better hair care products).

Meanwhile both camps were quick to kiss his ass.

"At a time when our politics is too focused on who's up and who's down, he made a nation focus again on who matters -- the New Orleans child without a home, the West Virginia miner without a job, the families who live in that other America that is not seen or heard or talked about by our leaders in Washington," Obama said Wednesday.

And not to be outdone, the Clinton statement.

"John Edwards ended his campaign today in the same way he started it -- by standing with the people who are too often left behind and nearly always left out of our national debate," Clinton said in a statement.

Edwards says he will not consider a running mate position and previous speculation says that he would be the Attorney General in an Obama-run White House.

Should They Stay or Go?

CNN and the AP are reporting that New Mexico Govenor Bill Richardson is going to bow out of the 2008 Democrats race for the presidential nomination.

It's a sad ending to what I expected would be a game effort behind the support of the nation's largest minority group, Hispanics. Unfortunately Richardson could never energy or finance his base like he wanted. He will most likely offer an endorsement to Barack Obama.

Meanwhile who else shows up in the "stay or go" category.

Rudy Guiliani: Rudy is opting to focus on 29 states including Florida and the majority of the states voting on Super Duper Tuesday, so he's not really bothered by his low numbers in Iowa or New Hampshire or so he says. Secretly you've got to be thinking he wanted to perform better than internet sensation Ron Paul. Still, until the 9-11 mayor, drastically falls on his face on February 5, we want him to stay.

Ron Paul: The internet sensation continues to perform right around fourth, putting him as the top B-teamer (with McCain, Romney and Huckabee considered the A-team) and really giving him a shot to speak at the Convention. I'm not sure if Paul will ever perform better than fourth place as a third-place finish would do wonders for his efforts. However, with plenty of money left in his war chest and a group of supporters willing to fight for his every word. I want Paul to stay until the Florida primary.

John Edwards: This is a tough one because Edwards performed so well in Iowa and is a legitimate third wheel on the Democrats A-team. That being said his likability showed a lot of flaws in the last week. He came out of Iowa almost arrogantly and tried to really group himself with Obama as being the ambassadors of change against status quo. But in reality who looks more like the status quo than John Edwards? He's a 50-year-old rich, white, lawyer who has the money to look like he's 35. He has a perma-smile and played John Cougar Mellencamp as his intro music before his speech in New Hampshire. If that ain't status quo I don't know what is. Neither Obama nor Hillary will probably consider Edwards as a running mate so he'll stay, but his appeal continues to decline with every word spoken out of his mouth. This hurts us because we love John Edwards' message and believe his heart is in the right place...now if only someone other than John Edwards was speaking those words. For the sake of the country he wants to help, we beg John Edwards to leave the presidential race.

Hillary Sheds Tears & Edwards Responds

...After going on the offensive for the last few days, Hillary Clinton took a new route and chose to get emotional during a Q&A period with her supporters.



The good news is for the Senator is that she has recovered about half her deficit going into today's New Hampshire vote, the bad news is her biggest supporter isn't the draw he used to be. Nor is he the magician he used to be as he can't make his wife younger, male or black either.

Meanwhile the bad news for John Edwards is that he sounded like a dick in responding to Hillary's emotional "outburst".

"I think what we need in a commander-in-chief is strength and resolve, and presidential campaigns are tough business, but being president of the United States is also tough business."

Stay classy John.

The pretty boy

So the pretty boy is back. The 50 something Senator is taking a stab against a fierce competition.

The Senator for North Carolina used to be a trial lawyer. Jerk.

So I admit, which makes my fellow GOP'ers cringe is that in early 2004, I was planning on voting for him. Yes, it's true.

I tend to try to give everyone a fair shake at things and he was the only candidate from the "other side" that was actually being positive and not bashing his fellow party members for a half of a percent poll increase.

Issues aside, he seemed to me like a great guy. So when he finally conceded and we were left with the flip-flopper, I thought, OK, maybe this guy can actually get Kerry to be positive and I'll actually vote on other side this year for the president.

That never happened.

I hope he'll stay positive towards his campaign, I may actually listen. It's doubtful after he bashed Cheney's daughter for being a carpet muncher that I'll consider him.

This election, his wife is facing cancer. What's ironic is that it seems that if this would happen on the other side, the "peaceful" leftists would be cheering on her death. But people seem to respect both of them because since he's a democrat, it's totally different.

Edwards is for eliminating poverty, universal health care, and fighting global warming. So instead of the poverty line in the US being 2 televisions, I guess he'd like to give them three. Universal health care means that we'll double our taxes, get worse service and have to wait 50 months for a heart transplant. It's working in Canada, isn't it? Then there's the global warming myth.

Seems like another chicken little kook liberal.

Good luck.

Odds of winning the dem nod: 1000 to 1

Odds of winning the presidency: Same as Larry Bird's word that another Pacer wont get arrested.