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Former Sen. John Edwards will endorse Sen. Barack Obama's presidential candidacy, Obama's campaign says.

Comments

[Jim]

Nothing like not playing your cards until it's entirely obvious who will win, Edwards.

[Julia]

Finally!

[kcatnd]

Better late than never.

...right?

VP candidate?

[Sandy Underpants]

But more importantly, who is Al Reynolds endorsing?

[Alec]

The timing of this perplexes me. Why the heck didn't he announce his endorsement before the NC primary, thus allowing him to claim some credit for 'delivering' the state (and arguably the nomination) for Obama?

[Alec]

... I suppose that if Edwards had endorsed before NC, and Obama had gone on to lose the state, that would have been pretty embarrassing for Edwards. But still, that was never very likely was it?

(Yeah, I know - I'm falling for the Clinton 'expectations' spin again :) )

[copndor]

Given that Obama was well ahead in the polls in North Carolina, why would people have thought, given an Edwards endorsement, that Edwards was responsible for delivering the state?

[copndor]

"VP candidate?"

Folks in the Kerry campaign supposedly thought that Edwards spent too much time running for president during the Kerry-Edwards run, and not enough time playing the role of potential vice-president. I think that's reason enough for Obama not to choose Edwards. Obama needs an old, seasoned VP, who will counter the inexperience criticism, and won't overtake Obama in charisma.

[CORNHUSKERS 94 95 & 97]

Plus, Edwards will run again and that would be very odd to have a sitting President and VP both running for the same job at the same time thats why I do not believe that Edwards would accept a VP nod.

[Alec]

Condor,

I said "some credit." Surely that's better than none?

[Andrew]

Lame. If Edwards was going to come out for Obama, he should've done that weeks ago to help put the nail in the coffin. In fact, the same is true if he was going to support HRC -- he should've announced back when she still had an outside chance of winning. Otherwise he should have sat out until the nomination battle was done.

This is off topic but did anyone catch Keith O. on MSNBC last night? Wow! I wish they would have checked his pulse after that "special comment" Dude may need some meds...

[Joe Mama]

First off, Edwards carries so little weight in the Democratic Party that his endorsement effectively means very little. That said, Edwards and Obama probably orchestrated this event to take place right after Billary kicked a$$ in WV so as to win the media cycle.

It was hilariously ironic when Edwards said, "We have to get past the same old hateful politics of the past" . . . this from easily the most hateful presidential candidate in either party this time around.

[Angrier and Angrier]

The timing of the endorsement ended up being masterful. Let's be honest. Edwards' endorsement isn't going to get Obama any more votes. But using it now blows the "Hillary won WV" story out of the water for a few news cycles.

[teresa]

Anon 9:09 - I watched the Olbermann video because of your post. All I can say is, "Wow."