You know you've just got a crazy, and potentially delusional candidate in John McCain when:
1. He Sings!
2. He tries to convince America that it's a bunch of other bad bad people who are calling Barack Obama an "Anti American", "Crypto-Muslim", "Terrorist Connected", "Black Nationalist", but McCain would never do anything like that. In fact he's shocked, I tell you... Shocked!
John Edwards is one of those rare political figures who is both capable of inspiring hope while taking up the most difficult and tumultuous fights.
With the announcement of his pending withdrawl from the race for the Democratic nomination for President this year, there will be millions of Americans struggling to decide where to pledge thier ongoing support. Neither Hillary Clinton, nor Barack Obama can represent precisely the firebrand populism of the Edwards campaign, but on issue after issue, there is strong reason for Edwards supporters to join the rising movement for change that has been inspired by the Obama candidacy.
Barack Obama had this to say about Edwards withdrawl from the race:
"John Edwards has spent a lifetime fighting to give voice to the voiceless and hope to the struggling, even when it wasn't popular to do or covered in the news. At a time when our politics is too focused on who's up and who's down, he made a nation focus again on who matters - the New Orleans child without a home, the West Virginia miner without a job, the families who live in that other America that is not seen or heard or talked about by our leaders in Washington."
Obama added, "John and Elizabeth Edwards have always believed deeply that we can change this - that two Americans can become one, and that our country can rally around this common purpose. So while his campaign may end today, the cause of their lives endures for all of us who still believe that we can achieve that dream of one America."
From all of us Obama supporters to all of you Edwards supporters: we are here to welcome you with open arms.
John Edwards is one of those rare political figures who is both capable of inspiring hope while taking up the most difficult and tumultuous fights.
