CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
#1CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:14amNo details yet.
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#2re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:17amCampaign aides say he's making the announcement at 1:00pm in New Orleans.
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#2re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:20amI knew he didn't stand a chance. But he would have had my vote.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:22am
It's about time.
Now maybe he can fill the void left by Mother Theresa.
#4re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:34am
Thats too bad - he brought an important voice to the primary.
Personally I think it was the press that has made it impossible for him to be a viable candidate . They only focused on Obama and Clinton. The press has taken a far too important role in this election.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:42am
"The press has taken a far too important role in this election."
He got more coverage than some of the others. He was just on Letterman which is pretty huge.
#6re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:50amIts really a shame. He should have atleast stayed in til super tuesday to see if he would have had any say come convention time, cause that would have been interesting.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#7re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:52am
I agree with Marc, the press has sacrificed the story for sensationalized Details-At-Eleven watch-me headlines and sound bytes. Edwards was written off in favor a juicier Clinton/Obama
smackdown.
#8re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 9:54amSo, does this benefit Clinton or Obama?
#9re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:12amDepends on whether he decides to be a kingmaker or a queenmaker.
#10re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:13am
" The former North Carolina senator will not immediately endorse either candidate in what is now a two-person race for the Democratic nomination, said one adviser, who spoke on a condition of anonymity in advance of the announcement."
John Edwards to Quit Presidential Race
#11re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:21amI think it'll depend on what each camp offers him--does he want to be a VP or an AG....
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#12re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:22amLoved Edwards and would liked to have heard more from him. I wish him the best.
#14re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:55amHe may have been on Letterman, but the mainstream news media has virtually ignored him since Iowa, slobbering over the two way fight they themselves helped create. I expected more of CNN, but they're a big corporation and no doubt against Edwards' populist and anti-big business message. I'm disappointed he didn't stay in through Tuesday, but I assume he has his reasons.
#15re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 10:59amTotally, I don't think any news agency wishes to promote a guy who plans to diminish their influence.
#16re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 11:02amI think we all suffer when all candidates don't get equal time (i.e., Kucinich).
#17re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 11:12am
Strikes me as nice fellow but his political capital went down the drain with Kerry's presidential aspirations. Too many Dems declared him damaged goods after Kerry and he failed to carry NC in 2004. Yes, the mainly liberal media do want either the Tammy Wynettish-Clinton or Kennedesque-Obama to be sworn in as the next president.
#18re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 11:17amThe mainly liberal media? Like the one ran by that pinko commie Rupert Murdoch? Give me a break... maybe the reporters and journalists tend to be liberal, but their bosses almost never are.
#19re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 11:32amRight, the so called liberal media is a joke. If the media had a liberal bias they would have given far more time to Edwards (and Kucinich) who is actually a liberal.
#21re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 12:38pm
Javero--do you honestly think the media is "liberal"? Do you not understand how for 7 years or more the media has constantly reinforced the conservative status quo?
Or do you really think the media is "liberal"?
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#22re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 12:42pm
"Do you not understand how for 7 years or more the media has constantly reinforced the conservative status quo?"
What media is that? The windmills in your mind media? The media falls consistently on the liberal side.
#23re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 12:47pmThe national cable news networks are decidedly conservative. Having said that, there is plenty of liberalism alive and well in print and local media.
#24re: CNN reporting Edwards is dropping out
Posted: 1/30/08 at 12:50pm
What channels are you watching Goth? Aside from the NYTimes, I can't think of a major media outlet that has a liberal bias--the other NYC papers certainly don't--the free ones do--but that's their purpose.
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