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rsmith6621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:16 PM
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Edwards Suspended...Not....


....ended his run for the White House...listen to his announcement again.I have a feeling that if Clinton or Obama don't seriously address the issue of poverty diligently and quickly he will begin adding heat behind their A$$es.

I think Edwards is just going lay low for a while and let Hillary and Obama beat themselves up for a while.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:17 PM
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1. Brokered Convention Anyone?
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:20 PM
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9. Not gonna happen now. I am sick.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:20 PM
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10. You think his 26 delegates will decide the nomination?
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:17 PM
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2. I hope the groundswell is such that he is forced to return full throttle.
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BlackVelvet04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:17 PM
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3. He has to suspend instead of terminating it
in order to pay his workers I think. I don't think he will be back as a presidential candidate.
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:17 PM
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4. The reason that he suspended instead of ended has something to do...
with a loophole in the public financing. It was mentioned on CNN this AM as I recall.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:18 PM
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5. You really believe that?
You think he's going to stop campaigning less than a week before Super Tuesday, but start up again at a later date? That doesn't make any sense. If he was going to do that, he'd at least wait a week. I think you're reading too much into the language.
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KaryninMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:19 PM
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6. Nice - I like that image. Laying low for a while waiting it out....
Perhaps he and Al Gore can brainstorm on how best to untilize the power of their endorsements. Better yet- maybe we can draft them as a team at the convention (I can dream, right?).
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:21 PM
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11. You think Gore is going to endorse Edwards now?
Come on...
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KaryninMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 04:00 PM
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15. Nope- I was fantasizing about them being drafted by the Dems at the convention.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:19 PM
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7. OMG, I hope you are right.
He still will be getting votes on super Tuesday from those of us who voted early before he quit.
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:19 PM
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8. Wishful thinking.it is over.They always use that term.I am ticked he didn't eplin "why>except to
say he was stepping aside to let the Party make history" which I interpet as a black man or a woman". We are "owed' an explanation, dammit.
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avaistheone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:24 PM
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12. I think we are owed and explanation. I called JE headquarters.
Their voice mail box is full, and the attendant is not picking up the phone.

These questions are not going to go away though.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:26 PM
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13. could someone explain this to me, my thinking is kind of clouded today
suspended? does that mean he could come back? Excuse my ignorance.
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HDPaulG Donating Member (221 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:39 PM
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14. Suspended campaigning....
Russ Feingold was the 'third' Democratic Senate candidate in 1992. He surged in the polls toward the end and won the Democratic nomination to take out the Republican incumbent. The two front running DEmocratic candidates imploded because of their squabbling, pickering and mud slinging. The Wisconsin electorate chose Russ....There may be a lesson here...for the JE camp
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