DISQUS

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Just heard some chump on MSNBC wonder how Democrats were going to handle the John Edwards story at the convention. Why? What does this have to do with Barack Obama? The appropriate question would be how does John McCain handle his history of infidelity to his first wife at the Republican Convention? John Edwards isn't a Democratic nominee. John McCain IS a nominee to be President. He did EXACTLY the same thing Edwards did. Attention Journalist and Media types: Your assignment is to now wrap your minds around the fact THIS is and should be a PROBLEM for John McCain NOT the Democrats.

naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago

Eggs-ackley. I think Edwards should stay at home and not go to the convention, Obama should refuse to address this, and if the media or right try to make a big deal of this, we Democrats should bring up that Edwards did something McCain did but even worse.

HelenaMontana · 1 year ago

I used to admire Bill Clinton more than any living politician (ok, that's not saying a lot, but still...). But during the past 8 months his behavior has had a lot in common with John McCain's--just another cranky, doddering old man. Shame to see a great talent come to such an ignoble end.

jcgraham77 · 1 year ago

I agree...based on his behavior I don't think he really wanted Hillary to win. I think they need to steer clear. The feeling just isn't there anymore.

caphillprof · 1 year ago

I hope John Edwards has the grace not to appear

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

THAT'S IT! I'm not voting for another philandering politician! I won't be voting for:

Bill Clinton
John Edwards

OR

John McCain

That leaves Barack Obama. I'll be casting my vote for Obama!

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

and WHERE IS that Vicki Iseman?

Get the "Where's Vicki Iseman?" signs READY for the Democratic Convention!

naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago

Me, I can't stand either one of them, but if it means an appeal to unity, I'll go along. I thought Bill Clinton's remarks the other day on whether Obama was qualified to be president were distorted when I actually heard a replay of them. Clinton said, truly, no one can say for certain about anyone until someone is actually in the Oval Office, and he concluded his remarks by saying that he expected Obama to win in November. That last little bit has been left out in a lot of reports. I think it is all the media and the right who are trying to make a sensational story. The Clintons both know that if they try to steal the nomination from Obama at this point, the Democrats would lose in November, and if that happened and blame could be laid at their feet, Hillary would not be backed by the party in 2012.

Sage24 · 1 year ago

CHANCES OF OBAMA WINNING OHIO GETS BETTER!

Obama camp says McCain involved in DHL deal, that results in Ohio workers losing jobs. I hope the Obama camp will make hay out of this....just like the rethugs would do if the situation is reversed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/08/plouff...

blackwolf · 1 year ago

Don't count on it Sage24: Obama and his camp are slow to respond to things like this. This is gold! You can bet, were it the other way around, the Rovian attack dogs would be talking about it all over the news. Instead, Obama is going on vacation!

So, go on vacation, and have your surrogates make it big-time news

hawkseye · 1 year ago

Sounds like the unions and newspapers are making plenty of hay out of it and that Obama can wait awhile.

Sage24 · 1 year ago

Here is the link about the McCain/DHL deal.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/...

hawkseye · 1 year ago

Thanks for the link. Sounds like quite a fuss is going on in Ohio about this. Obama will reap the benefits.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

Oh great...Mister I will trash my party for good by having this intern suck my cock Clinton is going to be at the convention shortly after Edwards confesses....the GOP and MSM are gonna run with this non stop. Between Olympics and sex scandals, they've got their ratings. Good job, Edwards.

I am in a monogamous gay relationship and I cannot get married because it would destroy marriage??? WTF????

This really is a nation of little tittering junior high girls

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

hopefully, following their "we don't think, we just do" policy for politics, the GOP will have larry craig, vitters and foley give speeches at the RNC.

the topic will surely be 'family values'.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

I doubt they'll do too much family values shit...but I bet we'll have wall
to wall POW footage of Johnny. I admire his story in many ways. Now tell me
again how being a POW qualifies you for anything other than maybe working
for the VA? Don't misunderstand me...as a member of the SDS and antiwar
movement, I never looked down my nose at Nam vets.I supported them when they
came home...in terms of getting them help and good care. It was not their
fault. Nor is it the fault of our kids today. It is ultimately OUR fault as
a nation that these wars are fought. We just love red white blue with
miliary Sousa music underneath. And we keep electing assholes who send our
kids to wars that only help our corporate giants make money.

(did you know that John Phillip Sousa Middle School in DC had no music
program for a long time because of budget cuts?)

eagleye · 1 year ago

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...

We live in a very strange political culture. The media are abuzz with John Edwards' admission that he had an affair, and speculation is that he will be marginalized from the Democratic Convention (see link above.) But an ex-President who got a wang job in the Oval Office and then lied about it under solemn oath gets a prime speaking slot in Denver.
I'm not condemning BC, just marveling at the odd twists and turns of fate.

davidkc · 1 year ago

Oh great, that's all Obama needs. Bill will probably just get up there and just talk about himself, in a desperate attempt to salvage his damaged reputation, and probably hardly mention Obama at all. Ugh. Let me know when Bill is on, so that I can turn off the teevee.

Busboy · 1 year ago

The National Enquirer is supposedly run by an ex-Clinton appointee. Could this be payback for Edwards not endorsing Hillary?

Busboy · 1 year ago

Will the RNC have the cojones to release the videos of some of Clinton's escapades since he left office?

jr · 1 year ago

Dear Bill,
Please no more compliments for McCain like pretending he's good on global warming

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Obama can afford to be indulgent, if it means that finally, AT LONG LAST, we can drive a stake through the Clintons and relegate them to the past. The Clinton Era is OVAH! (Or, we hope to God, it will be...)

blackwolf · 1 year ago

Don't bet on it! Hillary is plotting as we speak. She's advancing the BS that her supporters will feel slighted if her name isn't in the nomiation pot.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

Once the election is over in November and Obama is the President-elect, the Clintons can count on being tossed on the ash-heap of history.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

"My fellow Americans: I did not have sex with that woman, Reille Hunter . . ."