John Edwards' Obama endorsement stings Clinton campaign
9 a.m. Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Since John Edwards dropped out of the race in January, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had both aggressively sought his endorsement.
He's now made his choice.
"There is one man who knows in his heart that it is time to create one America, not two, and that man is Barack Obama," Edwards said.
The timing of the endorsement helps deflect Obama's stinging loss in West Virginia. That's because John Edwards is popular among the white, less-educated working class voters Obama needs, voters who soundly rejected him in Tuesday's primary.
"Hopefully his endorsement will help some of those supporters who haven't already joined my campaign to take a look at my campaign," Obama said.
Edwards may also be looking for a job in an Obama administration, perhaps vice president, a possibility Obama isn't ruling out.
"John Edwards is obviously somebody who would be on any body's shortlist," Obama said.
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Despite Obama scoring the Edwards endorsement, the Clinton camp insists she still in the game.
She is ahead in the popular vote. We are very close on the delegates. This is up to the voters, as I say we have six million eligible Democrats yet to vote in these upcoming 20 days," Clinton Campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe.
But political experts say it will be hard for the Clinton camp to put a positive spin on losing the Edwards endorsement. In an e-mail to ABC News, one Clinton advisor put it simply: "Ouch."
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May. 15, 2008 at 9:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)crat3 (anonymous)
Edwards endorsement was completely meaningless. Edwards ran a distant third in the primaries and had to drop out because he could get no traction. The spin that it "stings" is the pro-Obama media bias building it into something it is not. Edwards is a TWO-TIME LOSER ENDORSING ANOTHER LOSER in a hopeless quid pro quo deal. Edwards insignificance was trumped by overwhelming PEOPLE POWER.
The West Virginia resounding defeat of Obama was an expression of PEOPLE POWER that proclaimed Sen. Clinton is the Democratic presidential nominee. The PEOPLE POWER of Sen Clinton's victory trounced the pro-Obama biased media. Superdelegates who are endorsing Obama daily, with fabricated fluff, in an end run around the Democratic nomination process to swipe the nomination for Obama, should ponder seriously the PEOPLE POWER that buttresses Sen. Clinton. Obama and his superdelegates are taking the Democratic Party down the path of a train wreck in November.
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