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That's not quite cricket.

Kerry and Edwards differed in opinion on how the 2004 campaign should be run.

That's not surprising. It appeared to me that in that race, Edwards kinda took the lower road.

Poor Edwards. He's the best candidate overall, but he's not black or a woman, so no one cares. I hope he's a Veep candidate this year again. Someone needs to utilize him!

I like John Edwards. He could have won the election.

I guess I'll bump this thread later on if President McCain/Giuliani allows it.

Please don't say things like that.

But yeah I agree aobut Edwards. He does seem like the best qualified and most level-headed candidate.

I thought that when Obama came towards Kerry after the announcement of support. Kerry should have said to Obama, "Don't taze me Bro"

The Kerry people kept calling me for a couple of years untill I started screaming on the phone, "Why are you calling me the election is over and Kerry lost and he is a lame ass looser." I think he thought after his really bad display last time that he would run again.

It just shows how lame Kerry was in the first place. In my book, if you're willing to run with a guy as your number 2, you're telling the nation that we're in good hands even if the president's head explodes. I'm not saying Kerry could have made Edwards' race, but he definitely bunged it right there.

It's easy for Kerry to support Obama. It's like the white guy bringing the black friend to the hippie party.

Now if Kerry would just say, "look I love John Edwards but I want to see a black man in the White House before I die," that would be honest and understandable. However his answer today was a muddled line about "different times, different needs."

Boombats wrote:It just shows how lame Kerry was in the first place. In my book, if you're willing to run with a guy as your number 2, you're telling the nation that we're in good hands even if the president's head explodes. I'm not saying Kerry could have made Edwards' race, but he definitely bunged it right there.

Kerry putting Edwards on the ticket was nothing more than an attempt to pair a New England democratic with a Southern one, in the hope that Edwards could win him a few states he otherwise couldn't take on his own. Short of that, to at least carry his home state of South Carolina. To that end, Edwards as a VP candidate was a complete failure.

That Kerry isn't much of an Edwards supporter at this point is a fact that should surprise nobody.

AlBStern wrote:

Boombats wrote:It just shows how lame Kerry was in the first place. In my book, if you're willing to run with a guy as your number 2, you're telling the nation that we're in good hands even if the president's head explodes. I'm not saying Kerry could have made Edwards' race, but he definitely bunged it right there.

Kerry putting Edwards on the ticket was nothing more than an attempt to pair a New England democratic with a Southern one, in the hope that Edwards could win him a few states he otherwise couldn't take on his own. Short of that, to at least carry his home state of South Carolina. To that end, Edwards as a VP candidate was a complete failure.

That Kerry isn't much of an Edwards supporter at this point is a fact that should surprise nobody.

Interesting.

Ah, I dunno if any of this really matters. The only reason I'm not tired of being lied to is that nobody in power is really speaking to me.

AlBStern wrote:Kerry putting Edwards on the ticket was nothing more than an attempt to pair a New England democratic with a Southern one, in the hope that Edwards could win him a few states he otherwise couldn't take on his own. Short of that, to at least carry his home state of South Carolina. To that end, Edwards as a VP candidate was a complete failure.

That Kerry isn't much of an Edwards supporter at this point is a fact that should surprise nobody.

Everything you said is dead-on, but by this "couldn't take on his own" definition I don't believe there has been a ''successful" VP candidate since Johnson.