I wonder if Edwards has waited too long to be relevant.

He might want to wait to see how things develop now.

Why hitch your wagon to a losing horse unnecessarily?

Call me an optimist. Or naive. Or a hopemonger, but....

Could it possibly be that the meeting was cancelled because of an honest to goodness scheduling conflict?

Halperin says it'll be re-scheduled: http://thepage.time.com/2008/02/11/page-exclusive-tar-heel-talks/

So.......

Lot of drama from a guy who has won one state primary in two presidential runs. But he is a good stump speaker.

Hillary has been very solicitous and respectful to John Edwards. He deserves it.

ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., speaking in Lewiston, Maine, said that she would call on former No. Carolina Sen. John Edwards if she becomes president.

“There is a lot John and I have in common. I will be a fighter, and I intend to ask John Edwards to be a part of anything I do in the White House.” Clinton was prompted to speak about Edwards after a woman stood up and sad she was a former supporter of his -– but has not switched allegiances to Clinton. The woman commended Edwards for being a fighter –- and thought Clinton was a fighter, as well.

Clinton mentioned earlier in the speech that Edwards was the only other candidate running who offered a universal health care plan. “I was proud Sen. Edwards and I decided to put ourselves on the line politically,” she said.

Why would politicians like Richardson and Edwards endorse a candidate with a staff in shambles, no money, and a completely deflated support base. The new SurveyUSA poll shows a 60-38 Obama lead in Virginia. Edwards is not an idiot. Even if he likes Clinton more and wishes to endorse her, he's not going to commit political suicide. If he does plan on endorsing her, he will wait until after the Potomac states. If she wins one of them, then he can go into Wisconsin and campaign for her. If she gets blown out in all three, then look for either no endorsement or an Obama endorsement.

I hope that in an Obama administration that he offers Edwards the Attorney General job. Edwards would seem like a perfect fit for that position.

If it's just a scheduling conflict, no big deal, but with the leaked info about Hillary's "secret" meeting at chez Edwards, I feel like there's a game being played, and I don't see what it is. I'm hoping that the point of this game is to generate media intrigue about a planned Obama endorsement, but it could equally be for a Clinton endorsement. The question I asked in another thread was who leaked the Clinton meeting. If it was Clinton, that bodes well for her, because she wouldn't leak it if the meeting didn't go well. If it was Edwards, that bodes poorly for her, because it blew the cover of a meeting that she was trying to keep secret.

And both Obama and Clinton are mum, which is funny. You'd think that one of them would start to think that this wasn't going their way and talk down the importance of it.

Don't get me wrong, I know how much Edwards went after Clinton and how much he defended Obama against her attacks during his campaign. I have argued longer and harder than anyone on this site for the possibility of an arrangement between them. But if Edwards felt strongly for Obama, he would have endorsed before Super Tuesday. Since, he did not, I've lost confidence that he has an obvious preference.

What significance is a meeting cancellation with no other info? Doesn't even say who canceled. This is BS to try to make Edwards relevant again.
I liked Edwards but something about his manner seemed fake. I don't really buy the poverty line he runs down. What does he do for the impoverished when not running for office? I missed that part if it exists.

If he backs Clinton does it matter to people who can't decide between the two? I hope not since I can't fathom why his opinion is of such great importance. He couldn't even carry his backyard of South Carolina.

Bobby Kennedy never came off as being fake like Edwards does. I still had Edwards before Obama though until he proved unelectable.

Slightly off topic, but the NY Daily News hints at a Gore endorsement for Obama. Not sure if there's any actual news here, but it is at least pretty clear that Gore won't be endorsing Clinton any time soon.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/02/11/2008-02-11_campaign_takeout.html

Most likely, Edwards has decided not to endorse anyone. Hillary probably convinced him not to endorse Obama, but she also failed to make the sale for herself.

As this blog has reported, Edwards likes Obama, but questions whether he is tough enough to battle it out with the GOP. If this is really Edwards' big concern, the best way for him to answer his question is to wait. If Obama can wrest the nomination from Hillary, that's a good sign of toughness. If he loses, he obviously wasn't a good enough at political battling.

Additionally, there is the increasing chance that this will come down to a contentious brokered convention. If Edwards endorses, he will not be able to act as a peacemaker/mediator/broker.

I was starting to hope he wouldn't endorse at all. I'm afraid it will appear as the guys against the girls if he endorses Obama. As much as I support Obama - I still feel a sting from things like that - so how does it play with undecided woman? Maybe he just needs to stay neutral for now.

OH. MY. GAWD!!!!!

A meeting was cancelled!!!

(Runs shrieking from the room)

Hillary must have put a voodoo spell on the meeting place.

Yeah, and John Edwards fighting for the poor and underpriveliged, truly irrelevent issues, he shouldn't even fight for those now because he isn't running for president and president is just like god and makes all of the decisions and decides to grant waivers so Chevron can dump more toxins in the Great Lakes or approve the air quality at Ground Zero or grant greater media concentration rules and stuff like that.

Koresh, what a party I belong to.

Today was the moment of truth if Edwards was going to endorse Obama because if Obama takes Maryland and Virginia tomorrow without Edwards' help, why does Obama need Edwards in light of whatever price he wants for the endorsement?

On the other hand, to endorse Hillary after she loses 4 straight and possibly 2 more on Tuesday is a suicide mission. So if he is supporting Hillary his best chance is for Hillary to win at least VA tomorrow and possibly MD too, and win BIG.

He may have yet another chance to influence events at the convention, but as of now, his window of opportunity has passed.

I think Edwards endorsement may already be irrelevant.

Endorsements only count for so much anyway, and the biggest boost is if the endorser has a huge email list of supporters to give away. I doubt Edwards list is that big.

And Edwards voters have had weeks already to figure out on their own who to support with him out of the race, and many if not most of those voters have already gone to the voting booth by now.

As an Edwards supporter, I think I speak for the most loyal of his crowd when I say we favor no endorsement of anybody; he should release his delegates. The general feeling is that it would be hypocritical to support either of them unless for some reason heaven and earth depended on it---and I have to agree his endorsement probably doesn't matter.

With Texas just ahead I think Obama would gladly take a Richardson endorsement over Edwards. Richardson is a front runner kind of guy and I think before Texas we will see him endorse Obama.
My feeling all along is he was getting ready to endorse him before Bill Clinton came into town and I think convinced him to at least delay the endorsement.

As a former Edwards supporter, I now support Obama, so an Edwards endorsement wouldn’t affect my vote, but i think he should now endorse obama.

I do think an endorsement of Obama helps further solidify Obama’s progressive change credentials; a Clinton endorsement might seem opportunistic.

I also think that Edwards’ support is fragmented among at least three candidates: his progressive change message to Obama; his economic populism message– which crosses party lines to include some white conservative huckabee-like populists split between obama and clinton, and some even going to Huck. Finally, folks concerned about the details of Edwards health care policy are likely to go to Clinton, because their proposals almost match. The issue of mandates here is likely to scrape some edwards supporters away from obama.

should he endorse? sure. the obama wave is continuing to swell and edwards would do well by his message, supporters and himself to going with this flow.

I join the chorus that believes edwards would make a terrific AG!

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