A blow to road runners everywhere
By Creature
ACME endorses Hillary! Oh, wait, AFSCME endorses Hillary. Jeez, for a second there I thought she had the coyote vote all wrapped up. Oh well, I guess having "the country's largest and most politically influential union" on her side is pretty good too. This must be seen as a blow to Edwards and his union courting campaign.
(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)
ACME endorses Hillary! Oh, wait, AFSCME endorses Hillary. Jeez, for a second there I thought she had the coyote vote all wrapped up. Oh well, I guess having "the country's largest and most politically influential union" on her side is pretty good too. This must be seen as a blow to Edwards and his union courting campaign.
(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)
Labels: 2008 election, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards
posted by creature at
7:53 PM
2 Comments:
Creature, you mentioned earlier today, in your last post, that you may be on the Edwards bandwagon again. What do you think now?
I used to be on that bandwagon. Well, maybe not the bandwagon -- I avoid bandwagons -- but I blogged at his One America Committee and generally liked him a great deal. But something about his candidacy hasn't felt right from the start. I can't quite put my finger on it. I still prefer him to Clinton and Obama, I suppose, but, overall, he has failed to generate much in the way of excitement. He's tried to position himself as the union-oriented progressive, and I think he is serious about, say, poverty, but beyond that I'm not sure what he stands for -- and maybe that's the problem. Well, I know what he stands for in terms of a few high-profile policy positions, but... again, something seems to be missing.
Unfortunately, I think he's done. He's falling behind, even in Iowa, and if he doesn't do well there he won't go anywhere. I thought he might secure the progressive vote -- those who like Feingold, those who side with the Netroots -- but Dodd has been more effective on that front, and even Hillary is doing fairly well with them. Her Lieberman-Kyl vote was troubling, and I worry that she's too much of a triangulator willing to sell out to the GOP, but she's been pretty solid on many of the issues that matter most to us. And now that he's lost this enormous union, I just don't see how he can recover.
Which means coming to terms with Hillary, I suppose, because Obama isn't about to catch her either -- and certainly not after his recent gaffes and missteps. Is there anyone else out there who could unite the non-Hillary supporters, who could speak for progressives, who has a vision, who is strong on policy and would lead the country in the right direction?
Oh, right... Al Gore.
Alas.
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Michael J.W. Stickings, at 8:33 PM
Creature, you mentioned earlier today, in your last post, that you may be on the Edwards bandwagon again. What do you think now?
Well, for me, the AFSCME endorsement doesn't change anything. At this point Edwards has been the only one willing to challenge Hillary aggressively, lead on the war, and stand for the progressive way.
I wanted to like Obama, but there just doesn't seem to be any there there. I flirted with Dodd after he showed some leadership the last few weeks, but really his driver license answer really turned me off. Now I got no one, hence back to Edwards.
However, I will say, after my recent trip to Little Rock where I heard the locals RAVE, and I mean RAVE, about the Clintons I'm not as against her as I once was.
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creature, at 11:25 PM
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