Gad. I still haven’t decided whether to choose Hilbama, or Hilbama. Dammit.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

*obviously*, the only sane choice is Hilbama. how you can’t see that, I’ll never know.

It’s a shame his local home newspapers could not/would not run this picture.

Remember, McCain is Endless War, Hucklebee is Endless Crusade, and Romney is Both of the Above & the Book of Mormon too.

No Hell below us
Above us, only sky

elitist pig he is. i mean, he’s working with a little white boy! who’s blonde and can afford a porch on his new house!/hillbamites/

good on John, way to use that last bit of media attention for something that matters. sigh. perhaps we’ll luck out and he’ll get a good position in the party, like dean. AG seems a good fit.

in a term or two! and i’m sure he’ll be great. i wanted him to win the nomination after kucinich dropped out. i’m still for him.

elitist pig? oh you jokey political types!

he looks like a man working with a boy on a porch. good call on putting goggles on both of them.

nice sunlight.

i like the boy’s determination. it’s a nice photo.
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two times running and not winning means no more money. john already pissed off most of the big money interests that would support a dem, it’s unlikely his shift to the populist left would be anything but punished if he tried again.

he could run again, but if he did he’d be totally dependent upon small donors and word of mouth campaigning. that would put him in the (forgive me) DK and Sharpton range.

ah well. perhaps not then. but hey, ya never know what the future holds, right? one can always hope. (even withOUT obama in mind! ;)

it sure was ballsy of him to go all out against “corporate interests.” i have mad respect for that. i guess you need TONS of money to do that. after all…they dont call ’em “corporate interests” for nuthin…

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of the power of “the process” and how that process became even more self-empowered and referential over these last few years. in theory, edwards should be able to run again, but in practice, he’s been declared dead by the SCLM, dead forever. what does that say about the process, that they have such power to eject forever a potentially great candidate?

but like it or not, he’s out now, so i can say that he was never my Ideal candidate, or that i even really believed in him that much. i’m too old to “believe” in anyone anymore, and he certainly was not the face of someone i’d like to see lead us into a progressive future. i’m not trying to be racist/sexist/heterophobic, just expressing my preference for a radical black/brown lesbian/gay/transgendered atheist person of moderate income be president. if only i could be the one to choose, as it were…

anyway, i like to think that Jonny had a real Change of Heart this time around. the thing with his wife, perhaps some wisdom/bitterness at his experience with the kerry campaign, some other stuff i’ve heard about him…i was willing to give him a shot. a HUGE factor in my support in him: his willingness to say, “i was wrong.” more than anything else, that was and remains, truly different in a modern politician. the war is Wrong, but in the Village, it takes great courage and fortitude to say so. he did, and won me over.

now…i expect him to come out for obama. in exchange for an AG position, or perhaps even something noble like increased funding for [insert worthy program here]. but i anticipate that edwards will demonstrate yet again that in the end, our current crop of leaderz are mostly shallow, insider baseball gameplayers, Village-centric, willing to ignore the death and destruction that comes from their policy. i could be wrong, edwards could tell his delegates to go for HRC. which would be not really a big diff, where attempting to play the “progressive, anti-war ’kingmaker’” would take some Stones. we’ll see if he’s got em. this post suggests that i could be too cynical about him. i hope he proves that i am.

because I see Edwards as “outside” the current crop of leaderz.

And he deliberately chose the no-money route this time, but the corrupt, corporate media wouldn’t even acknowledge that about his campaign.

Unless and until we can bring back the Fairness Doctrine, we will continue to be in a world of hurt in this country.

“SickO” didn’t hold traction any better than Fahrenheit 9-11 did, and those were the two strongest and media-savviest statements about the past seven years (plus) that anybody’s attempted to make in public.

The media buried Edwards, but the man’s a long way from dead.

I don’t think he wants to be AG, frankly. (Well, I don’t imagine he wants to be anything but horizontal for about another week, aside from getting up long enough to go vote if NC is one of the Tuesday primaries. Can you imagine how exhausted he has to be? All that effort, all that time, all the speeches, meetings, bus time, strategizing & other brain time…and the last few months, coming to realize that it’s not gonna happen, so you’re keepin’ on keepin’ on just to get the message out? I ain’t that much older than him and I sure as hell couldn’t have done it….)

But anyway…i think he’s looking more and more at Al Gore’s post-political career and seeing that this is a way to get things done. What his financial situation is these days I dunno; he has a wife with a “pre-existing condition” and I read awhile back that the campaign was paying their (and upper staffers) healthcare insurance. Not that he’s gonna miss any meals in any case but at his age he has, presumably, a lotta years ahead to think about, kids to educate etc.

It’s a long time till the convention. My guess is he’ll simply commit to support whoever gets the nomination and see how events play out. Healthcare reform…and New Orleans…seem like areas where he could do what Al has been working on with climate change.

Or what the hell, I could see him heading back to the Senate again. John Quincy Adams went back to the House after serving as President after all.

And there’s always a certain high court…heh heh heh. :)