Boy, John Edwards sure looks glum these days...

I bet John Edwards is highly pissed-off.

Clinton and the DNC maneuvered Kerry into the spotlight instead of Edwards in order to ensure that no "star" could possibly derail Hillary's aspirations in the 2008 election. Clinton knew that Kerry would lose - while Slick Willy is a scumbag, he's also one of the cleverest (read: slimiest) political animals ever. Therefore after Kerry goes down in flames Hillary can ride in on her white horse.

Edwards probably is now realizing that if the DNC had backed HIS candidacy instead of Kerry, the Dems would likely be leading this race right now. But Clinton saw himself in Edwards - good looking, glib, down-home accent, and an 'aw shucks' delivery style - and therefore had to shut him down, quick. So now Edwards is relegated to standing by and watching Kerry get peeled like an onion.

Our little ambulance chaser realized that Hanoi John is destroying Edward's career along with his own. Welcome to the Bigs, you naive little [...shudder...] lawyer. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. Only one southern BS artist per century please...

Watch for Hillary to attempt to move towards the center over the next 4 years, or at least disguise her liberal views. A Hillary presidency would be as bad as a Kerry presidency, or worse. But she'll lose too - the days of shameless liberal pandering, PC idiocy, and moral equivalence are coming to an end. We Americans see it now for what it is - encouragement for terrorists and anti-Americanism disguised as 'sensitivity'.

If not for 9/11, someone like Edwards could very possibly have won this election, in the same ridiculous, left-media-assisted way that Clinton did - twice. Edwards certainly was, in my opinion, the most dangerous Dem candidate in the race - even more so than Lieberman (too conservative to appeal to the loony left).

But 9/11 actually DID wake America up, notwithstanding all the Democratic attempts to lull them back to sleep and turn Iraq in Vietnam. Americans learned from the Vietnam episode that the time to protest the war is BEFORE it starts, not after. Dems are very careful to insist that they 'support the troops', but then immediately denigrate their very reason for being in Iraq. And of course the Dem surrogates at the NYT and WaPo aide and abet every story negative about the troops and their CIC.

The Dems and leftist media are willing participants in Iraqi insurgent and terrorist dreams of exploiting a perceived American split on the issue. Just like the NVA in Vietnam - for the Dems it IS Vietnam all over again. Is this any surprise considering who they are running for President?

Adios MF,

Doug