John Edwards

Posted at 8:41am on May 15, 2008 MI Morning Update: AOIs Upgraded - Edwards and Obama Meant to Be - Obama Wrong for MI - MS-01 Results

By saul anuzis

May 15, 2008

173 Day until Election Day

MORNING UPDATE:

ARTICLE OF INTEREST 2.0…Today the Articles of Interest gets an upgrade and becomes more streamlined. The popularity of my AOIs has grown to the point that we need to knock down a wall and expand. Each day you will receive via e-mail my MORNING UPDATE and REST OF THE STORY along with the Top 10 hottest news stories and commentary from across Michigan and around the country.

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Posted at 1:05am on May 15, 2008 If John Edwards Was Smart . . .

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Then he would have issued his endorsement of Barack Obama last week, in advance of the North Carolina primary. After all, North Carolina is Edwards's home state. Everyone knew that Obama was going to win it--the only question was whether Hillary Clinton might have made it close. Edwards ran virtually no risk whatsoever endorsing the candidate favored to win in North Carolina, who coincidentally happened to be the candidate favored for the past few months to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. And if he did endorse in advance of the North Carolina primary, he might have gotten some credit for Obama's larger-than-expected win there and for the fact that in the aftermath of North Carolina and Michigan, a flood of pundits rushed to the cameras to declare Obama the nominee.

Instead, Edwards waited until today. His endorsement is so much bandwagoning--the results in last night's primary in West Virginia were entirely expected and even as Hillary Clinton was rolling to victory, pundits and their pet canaries were busy reminding us that a win in West Virginia does nothing to change the electoral math in Clinton's favor. Politics and positioning is all about timing. While Barack Obama is doubtless pleased to have Edwards's endorsement, one cannot help but think that Edwards missed a crucial chance to help himself the most by appearing to have helped Obama at a tremendously critical time in the run-up to the North Carolina primary. And by the way, John Edwards is not going to be able to do a thing to solve this problem for Barack Obama.

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Posted at 7:16am on Jan. 31, 2008 MI Morning Update: Hope is in the Air - Giuliani and Edwards Call It Quits - Presidential Debate

By saul anuzis

280 Days until Election Day

MORNING UPDATE:

There is “hope” in the air that Republicans and Democrats can work with the Governor to accomplish some of the items the Governor addressed in her State of the State. The devil will be in the details…but at least there is hope.

Will her rhetoric be matched by a bipartisan approach…or ultimately political wrangling?

Mayor Rudy Giuliani drops out of the presidential contest for the Republican nomination…basically making this a McCain vs. Romney race on Super Tuesday.

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Posted at 2:50am on Jan. 31, 2008 The Long Goodbye

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

John Edwards has realized that we can't miss him if he won't leave. Farewell to a campaign that had a lot of rhetoric behind it, but little actual purpose.

Posted at 9:51am on Jan. 25, 2008 Charles Krauthammer Asks A Question That's On My Mind

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Why is John Edwards even in the race?

. . . He stays in the race because, with the Democrats' proportional representation system, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton might end up in a very close delegate race -- perhaps allowing an also-ran with, say, 10 percent of the delegates to act as kingmaker at the convention.

It's a prize of sorts; it might even be tradeable for a Cabinet position. But at considerable cost. His campaign has been a spectacle.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 8:32am on Jan. 15, 2008 Could Clinton win 80% of the vote without locking in a single delegate? YES!

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Today is the day... did you vote yet?  Then what are you sitting around reading a blog for?  Go.  Vote.  Forthwith.  Then come back.  I'll wait...

~twiddling thumbs~

~whistling~

~pacing room~

~looking at wrist pretending there's a watch there~

Back?  Awesome.  You may have been one of the first to vote today but you certainly won't be the last.  Early projections vary but all expect the primary election to draw around 1.5 million people.  That's about a 20% voter turnout when you do the math.  In 2000, the last time the State had a presidential primary we drew about 1.4 million so you can do the math on that one.  Of course back then there was only a GOP contest.  And as a group of lawmakers from metro-Detroit continue to point out in the press and via advertising and a grassroots ground game, there is very much a Democrat contest this year as well.

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Posted at 11:24pm on Jan. 9, 2008 A Memo For John Edwards

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

It's over. All the spin in the world won't change the fact that it is over.

Time to cut a deal. Also, at best, you will have to practice saying the words "Vice President Edwards" again.

Posted at 11:08am on Jan. 9, 2008 And suddenly Michigan's Primary is a battleground... for the Democrats!

By RightMichigan.com

Promoted from blogs. - Moe Lane

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

There'll be endless analysis in the next week about what went right and what went wrong in New Hampshire and where each candidate stands heading into Michigan.  And it'll take some time for a conventional wisdom to form and when it does, if it's anything like what happened between Iowa and the Granite State it'll be all wrong.  But one thing has already become clear and it's maybe more surprising than any final result come next Tuesday.

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Posted at 11:23pm on Jan. 8, 2008 Question for John Edwards

By Erick

You bring up all these cases -- the liver transplant story in which you flagrantly misrepresent the facts -- and yet never once do you indicate that you yourself got personally involved to help out.

You apparently want the rest of us to help out through the coercive power of the federal government, but what about you yourself? You've got a 20,000 sq. ft. house. You made millions "studying" the poor. Why don't you chip in and help out the guy you talked about who was abandoned by government and left to live under a bridge?

John Edwards: All talk.

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Posted at 9:33am on Jan. 4, 2008 Michigan: The Rodney Dangerfield of Democrats' America

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Iowa's done.  What's next?  Michigan!  Yeah, yeah, I know.  New Hampshire is actually next, technically.  And you've got to figure in Wyoming and South Carolina.  So maybe we're not "next" but in only eleven days Michigan voters will head to the polls to vote for their choice to be the next leader of the free world.  

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Posted at 12:00am on Jan. 3, 2008 "Too Cute By Half"

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Apparently, Peter Fenn just noticed that John Edwards says one thing and does another on a regular basis.

Posted at 2:11am on Dec. 27, 2007 Things Dan Drezner Will Not Miss While He Is Away

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Listed here. I knew that John Edwards--with his New Protectionism and Old Populism brand of campaigning--is not a serious Presidential candidate. I had no idea, however, that he seriously thinks that the Department of Justice ought to be tasked with keeping us on the straight and narrow when it comes to trade policy.

Would it be too much to ask that the next time Edwards issues a complaint about how the Bush Administration politicized the DOJ, someone remind the public that Edwards does not exactly come into the debate with the cleanest of hands?

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Posted at 2:38pm on Dec. 23, 2007 In Which We Are Reminded That Prosperity Is Not A Zero Sum Game

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Today's New York Times comes out with an examination of the views of Mitt Romney and John Edwards on the issue of wealth. Romney is the candidate with the biggest personal fortune and Edwards is probably only rivaled by Hillary Clinton, whose husband went on a speechmaking-for-pay spree after he left the Presidency. There views on wealth are telling and in one case--Edwards's--entirely strange:

"Some people come from nothing to being wildly successful and their response is, `I did this on my own,'" Mr. Edwards said in an interview. "I came to a different conclusion. I believe that I did work hard, and I think people should work hard, but I think my country was there for me every step of the way."

Today, he added, "the problem is all the economic growth is going to a very small group of people."

Mr. Romney, by contrast, talks about the ways that his experiences at Bain showed him how innovative and productive the American economy can be and, particularly, how free markets can make life better for everyone.

"There is a model of thought among the Democrats -- that the amount of money, the amount of wealth in a nation, is a fixed amount," he said in an interview. "And that if Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are making a lot of money, that just means somebody else is not able to make as much. That happens to be entirely false."

Readers, of course, won't be surprised to find out that I agree with Romney's views on wealth from a general philosophical standpoint. But even if we take the lives of both Edwards and Romney as case studies on the issue, we should find in favor of Romney's views on the issue of wealth acquisition.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 8:28am on Dec. 14, 2007 Talk about BRANDING... the Dems keep doing all the work themselves

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

A political party or a candidate can spend an entire election cycle trying to brand the opposition on an issue.  One way or another, whatever issue it might be it's difficult work.  There are campaigns that never pull it off and watch their opponents slip by with a Teflon coating.  Others are more successful.  But nothing in this business has ever been as effective as sitting back and letting the opposition brand themselves.

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