tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post6477243146995560136..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: From Edwards to.... ObamaDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-4696348376986230322008-02-01T07:05:00.000-08:002008-02-01T07:05:00.000-08:00Kyle wrote:I wonder why with Obama I retain the ho...Kyle wrote:<BR/><BR/><I>I wonder why with Obama I retain the hope that all his centrist, moderate slant, so painful, is only a clever ruse... That when he is in a position to be drunk with power, he might decenter and run this country on inspired progressivism. Like our good friend FDR of old...</I><BR/><BR/>My similar hope was tempered with the reality check I got from the Center for Public Integrity's <B>The Buying of the President 2008</B> website:<BR/><BR/>http://www.buyingofthepresident.org/index.php/the_candidates/barack_obama/VDThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01496647346219341625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-51537864412599407802008-01-31T21:59:00.000-08:002008-01-31T21:59:00.000-08:00I've been following your support of Edwards, both ...I've been following your support of Edwards, both as a reader and as an outspoken supporter (insofar as I have an audience). I've made the same move myself to Obama, if only because when we get Obama we don't get an incumbent Cabinet (or I assume so) and because of as you say the strangely exciting world-changing possibilities his name has come to signify. Connected to the latter, I wonder why with Obama I retain the hope that all his centrist, moderate slant, so painful, is only a clever ruse... That when he is in a position to be drunk with power, he might decenter and run this country on inspired progressivism. Like our good friend FDR of old...Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08060803878271012703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-15784550063014434132008-01-31T14:04:00.000-08:002008-01-31T14:04:00.000-08:00Dale said:I daresay that would scare them less the...Dale said:<BR/><BR/><I>I daresay that would scare them less the Vice Presidency I had in mind...</I><BR/><BR/>1. I doubt Edward would like to run as the Democrat vice-presidential candidate again as much as I doubt Obama would tolerate Edward using his bully pulpit to spout populist rhetoric that would force him off his moderate centrist script.<BR/><BR/>2. Despite the reign of Darth Cheney, the U.S. vice-president is supposed to be a mostly minor role.<BR/><BR/>3. A zealous U.S. Attorney-General could drag the entire the Republican establishment into court! Edwards is ready of that role from Day One. Think about it.VDThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01496647346219341625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-87759980508385100662008-01-31T12:13:00.000-08:002008-01-31T12:13:00.000-08:00[I]magine if the deal was that Obama must nonimate...<I>[I]magine if the deal was that Obama must nonimate Edwards as his first Attorney General in order to get his endorsement! But since this would probably scare the living daylights out of the American Establishment, it will never happen...</I><BR/><BR/>I daresay that would scare them less the Vice Presidency I had in mind...Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-59089382030265669582008-01-31T11:42:00.000-08:002008-01-31T11:42:00.000-08:00Dale said:Frankly, I hope there was a deal in the ...Dale said:<BR/><BR/><I>Frankly, I hope there was a deal in the background of Edwards' premature relinquishment of his candidacy that would make him quite near at hand in an Obama Presidency indeed.</I><BR/><BR/>This is pure wishful thinking on my part but imagine if the deal was that Obama must nonimate Edwards as his first Attorney General in order to get his endorsement!<BR/><BR/>But since this would probably scare the living daylights out of the American Establishment, it will never happen...VDThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01496647346219341625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-8851682716015142072008-01-31T11:32:00.000-08:002008-01-31T11:32:00.000-08:00Earl Ofari Hutchinson wrote one of the best "candi...Earl Ofari Hutchinson wrote one of the best "candidacy obituaries" for John Edwards.<BR/><BR/>Edwards' Withdrawl is America's Loss<BR/>By Earl Ofari Hutchinson<BR/>January 30, 2008.<BR/><BR/>Edwards did something that no one else did: He made poverty no longer a dirty word in the mouths of many.<BR/><BR/>http://alternet.org/columnists/story/75479/VDThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01496647346219341625noreply@blogger.com