Our friend John Edwards plans to announce his intention to run for President tomorrow morning in New Orleans. (Hillary and Obama appear to have forced his hand.) I’m not optimistic about his chances, but it’ll be good to have him in the race.
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i dearly love obama and would like to see him as president, but i fear he hasn’t enough experience. my idea of a golden slate would be hillary for president and obama as vice president. after eight years, he could run as president with enough experience to pull it off. i have no hope of this occuring, though—politicians are too self centered to allow someone else to take center stage for any length of time. so sad.
True story. Ol’ E Cross was born in the same small N.C. town as John Edwards. Our families went to the same Baptist church and, as such, were quite familiar. I’ve recently learned that the ABC blocks I grew up playing with were hand-me-downs from John Edwards. (They’ve been in my mouth, so, it seems, I have tasted greatness.)
All I’m saying is, once Edwards is elected and I show up in the Oval Office with his cherished childhood blocks, I’m confident that Ypsilanti can count on some massive pork-barrel spending on our behalf.
Oh, and, if you wondered, all us Robbins’ boys are that handsome.
Dorothy, I hear where you’re coming from, and I think you’re right about some of it. I agree, for instance, that Obama needs more experience. (Although, Jim Kunstler did make a good point when he said that he had about as much experience as Lincoln did when he became President.) I don’t share your love for Hillary though. As I’ve mentioned here before, I can appreciate why she felt it necessary to support the war in Iraq. Americans, right or wrong, won’t elect a woman to be President unless they see her as being a hawk. I get it. But, it doesn’t excuse what she has done. As a Senator, she swore to protect this country, and yet she allowed the Bush administration to systematically destroy it. She not only sat by, but she joined them. She did what I’m convinced she knew was wrong just because it was politically expedient, and that, in my opinion, is inexcusable. She will never get my vote.
As for Edwards, I like him. Something about the campaign just doesn’t feel right to me though. Maybe it’s the fact that he’s now talking about global warming. I know that’s a good thing, but it just seems kind of forced. I’d much prefer that he just announced that, as President, he’d put Gore in charge of a task force on the matter, and then let him run with it. I like Edwards best when he sticks to the subjects of poverty, fairness and our nation’s need to retake a position of moral leadership in the world.
And, Ol’ EC, if you can arrange to get one of those blocks here, let me know and I’ll set up some kind of big “block sucking” event.
I really like Edwards – this announcement makes me happy, honestly, I was a bit bummed when I saw the magazine cover with Hillary on it. Ugh.
John sent this note yesterday. I thought that you might find it of interest: