To fellow members of the DU Edwards Underground . . .

Its time to choose up sides, boys and girls. As the old song asks . . . which side are you on?

Tell us in a word. For me, its:

OBAMA

At this point anyway.

Sigh. PA primary's in April so it won't matter, I'll probably write in Edwards. I'll vote for the nominee in November regardless, the Supreme Court is too important to fuck around with being pissy that my candidate didn't make it.

I'll be voting absentee from France, and damn am I glad about that.

candidates is "being pissy that my candidate didn't make it" but, rather, being pissed that the party has abandoned Democratic principles.

Liberals have been good little soldiers for quite a while, and have gotten less than nothing in return. We are now told to hold our nose, shut up, and pull the "D" lever, even if the candidate has no resemblance to a true Democrat. That is why some are thinking that the only way to have any influence and let the politicians know that they have failed us is to withhold support. As long as they get our minor (compared to corporate dollars) donations and our vote, they have no reason to change their conservative ways.

If they overturn Roe v Wade with the conservative justices McCain will nominate, women will die. That's not okay with me, not just to make a point about what the Dems are doing wrong.

On edit: I agree with you about what the Dems are doing wrong, by the way. It's just not as important to me as those lifetime appointments to the court.

I wish them well with having to make it.

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Clinton and Obama are pretty much on the same goddamn side last time I checked--as least as far as Corporate America goes. And since Obama is on the side of the ex-gay movement and used that movement to send a message to conservative Christians about "which side he's really on", I will not be voting for Obama.

and who the fuck do you think YOU are to tell another poster what he can and can't say?

Obama is not anti-gay. He supports civil unions with all the federal benefits of marriage. He supports repealing DADT and DOMA.

And frankly, I don't give a shit who you vote for, but I don't like falsehoods.

we ARE choosing sides now . . . hoping to get the BEST, MOST ELECTABLE candidate of the two left standing . . . and your input matters!

I can understand JE supporters who are going to sit out the primaries, but it TRULY IS US v. THEM in the General Election, and NO PROGRESSIVE can afford to sit-out the November elections.

There is just TOO MUCH at stake to allow the GOP to have another 4 years in the White House.

so, again, I ask . . . which side are YOU on?

reflect on Edwards today, he and his supporters deserve it. Obama and Clinton can wait until tomorrow. Today is about understanding the effects edwards and his supporters have on the party and the country. I am a Clinton supporter, but i don't want to absorb the Edwards people. I want the Edwards people to become even more John Edwards. As a Clinton supporter I want to work with people from an empowered Edwards movement. I want the Edwards Movement to live.

I'm not going to kill a single brain cell trying to choose between Kang and Kodos. Whoever is the nominee, I'll vote for.

In the meantime, it's back to the real world for me. I'll leave y'all to decide important issues like whether it was an actual tear or "shrill" is sexist or whether Obama loves Claire McCaskill more.

The tragedy is that we get the government we deserve. It's always a rude shock to discover anew what that is.

Choose up sides? No.

We get the government we deserve - truer words were never spoken.

I do not have to choose a side.

I am voting for Hillary, but that doesn't mean I dislike Obama.

I'm leaning Obama though only because I don't want Hillary to get the nod. Lesser of two evils. I'm probably leaving the democratic party after super Tuesday and registering independent.

Got my primary coming up, and I've lost Kucinich and Edwards now. For me, it's Obama, hands down. I have to hope that DC has not yet corrupted him as thoroughly as it has Clinton.

whoever gets the nomination in the GE.

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where have I heard that before?

Edwards swayed his platform a lot farther left. He's the leftiest left