# Edwards endorses Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 14, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349 "2008-05-14T22:06:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/41 "2008-05-15T13:11:31Z")
[QUOTE=Onomatopoeia] Oh…not good form, Obama supporters. A cacophonous boo rose at the rally when Edwards complimented Hillary. Edwards didn’t look pleased. [/QUOTE] I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Hillary has been booed [by her own people](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBmqy3HkAj8) at her own little rallies. > [@elucidator](#): > > Which, of course, explains the timing. It appears that some Dems can do the political macarena with more grace than a spastic monkey. This is a hopeful prospect. It is indeed. Obama is a masterful manager. He did a similar thing with Bill Richardson. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/42 "2008-05-15T13:36:31Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] I’m enrolling there for the fall semester. Give me a few years to be old enough and I’ll make it happen! Antinor01 in 2012! [/QUOTE] Oh yeah? Well a few years ago I might have been giving you your freshman comp grades. Those kinds of things can come back to haunt you, you know, so watch what you say in those essays. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/43 "2008-05-15T14:35:26Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Which, of course, explains the timing. It appears that some Dems can do the political macarena with more grace than a spastic monkey. This is a hopeful prospect. [/QUOTE] That’s a mighty low bar you’re setting there, podner. On the other hand, the Republicans are slithering on their bellies at this point, so… ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/44 "2008-05-15T14:40:27Z")
If anything this has only strengthened Hillary’s resolve. As we speak she is skywriting “Surrender Obama” over Louisville, and she is prepared to unleash the flying monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/45 "2008-05-15T14:46:13Z")
[QUOTE=Bill Door] If anything this has only strengthened Hillary’s resolve. As we speak she is skywriting “Surrender Obama” over Louisville, and she is prepared to unleash the flying monkeys. [/QUOTE] But she doesn’t realize these things must be done delicately. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/46 "2008-05-15T16:09:01Z")
Edwards brings the Steelworkers union over: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap\_on\_el\_pr/obama\_steelworkers](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_el_pr/obama_steelworkers) ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/47 "2008-05-15T16:09:53Z")
[QUOTE=tofergregg] The Edwards endorsement made me wonder: why don’t I hear his name more often as a possible VP choice again? -Tofer [/QUOTE] He was mentioned plenty, but most would prefer to see him as AG rather than VP. The current administration has made such a trainwreck of DOJ that this really is a much better job than waiting around for young Obama to drop dead. Obama will probably be the healthiest occupant ever to enter the oval office…for me that makes his VP choice far less interesting than normal candidates. ---
**Author:** ![Hakuna\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/48 "2008-05-15T16:14:28Z")
[http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics/archives/138941.asp](http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics/archives/138941.asp) McDermott endorses Obama—the ball keeps rolling! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/49 "2008-05-15T16:26:56Z")
[QUOTE=Trion] Edwards brings the Steelworkers union over: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap\_on\_el\_pr/obama\_steelworkers](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_el_pr/obama_steelworkers) [/QUOTE] Kentucky is [big in steel and even bigger in aluminum,](http://www.invest-in-usa.org/stateindustries/stateindustry/MetalSteelKentucky,100.aspx) and USW represents workers in both. I see a quick burst of ads featuring this endorsement in Kentucky’s near-term future. If endorsements ever matter then this one helps tamp down Clinton in Kentucky some. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/50 "2008-05-15T16:32:05Z")
[QUOTE=Kevbo] He was mentioned plenty, but most would prefer to see him as AG rather than VP. The current administration has made such a trainwreck of DOJ that this really is a much better job than waiting around for young Obama to drop dead. [/QUOTE] Edwards would make a great AG – but Ralph Nader would make a still better one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/51 "2008-05-15T17:53:59Z")
The best thing about the Edwards endorsement was timing. It knocked Hillary off the front page. And Edwards as VP. No way! What is this guy, a professional VP candidate? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349/52 "2008-05-15T22:11:42Z")
[QUOTE=kevja] The best thing about the Edwards endorsement was timing. It knocked Hillary off the front page. [/QUOTE] That’s the first thing I thought of; I honestly think they’ve been deliberately _saving_ this for a time they needed to do that. I can totally see him as VP if it’s not Hillary (assuming Obama gets the nom of course). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edwards-endorses-obama/449349.md?page=2)