Silky: I’m really more a clone of Obama than Clinton
posted at 9:40 pm on November 9, 2007 by Bryan
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Lawyer John Edwards became Southern senator by pitching himself as a centrist. His senate record is mostly centrist. He voted for the Iraq war and was even know in the run-up to be one of its better advocates among the Democrats.
Now he’s a screaming nutrooter. And evidently he has no interest in being a Veep candidate one more time, because he’s casting himself as the electable populist radical.
Edwards seems to be saving his artillery for Hillary, and sought in Des Moines today to minimize the distance between himself and Obama.
“The differences between Sen. Clinton and myself are much more dramatic than the differences between Sen. Obama and myself,” he told reporters in Des Moines.
Perhaps Edwards is tacking left just to help blow up the SS Hillary?
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He better load up with some live ammo. Up until now he’s been shooting blanks.
Tennessee Dave on November 9, 2007 at 9:48 PM
A Stepford Wife is probably more accurate.
Kini on November 9, 2007 at 9:55 PM
If you could cross Silky with a cat, it would be to the benefit of Silky, but to the detriment of the cat.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on November 9, 2007 at 9:55 PM
Edwards best chance was to run as a southern alternative to Obama and hillayr. He threw that away to try and run as the most liberal of the group.
BTW quick question when was the last non southern Democrat elected President ? That should cause the dems some pause
William Amos on November 9, 2007 at 9:55 PM
Or he has laid his battery 3200 mils out.
MB4 on November 9, 2007 at 9:57 PM
Not a bad strategy, actually.
If Hillary is a somewhat vunerable frontrunner (nobody likes her). The distant third throws his lot in supporting the Number two’s view of the world. If the “rat” public starts thinking in terms of an Edwards/Obama ticket because Hillary is deemed problematic, the next logical thought is the order of the ticket and Edwards has more “gravitas.”
highhopes on November 9, 2007 at 10:12 PM
I’m going to take a stab at this,Dodd and Biden
made idiot comments,and now Silky.I said this morning
on a different thread if it was possible that Liberals
could make a trifecta,and I could be wrong,but it looks
like the Liberal’s have made three idiot comments within
twenty-four hours.
canopfor on November 9, 2007 at 10:15 PM
The clip illustrates Edwards living out his career as a silver-tongued opportunist, first as a lawyer and now as a politician.
petefrt on November 9, 2007 at 11:04 PM
I expect that Silky will have a coiffing “accident” very soon.
csdeven on November 10, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Black Like Me?
baldilocks on November 10, 2007 at 12:05 AM
And just when I was starting to like your real quotes…
BadgerHawk on November 10, 2007 at 1:49 AM
True. Hillary is too macho to be a metro-man
entagor on November 10, 2007 at 3:18 AM
@sshat
CloneTrooper on November 10, 2007 at 8:10 AM
I was thinking he is more a clone of Dolly or maybe Dolly of him. What say you?
Wade on November 10, 2007 at 10:21 AM
We must never underestimate the power of the poll. Especially in this, the era of POLLitics.
Rugged Individual on November 11, 2007 at 2:26 AM
Edwards doesn’t know what to do. Obama runs as the first African-American candidate for president with a serious chance of winning (Neither Jackson or Sharpton was a serious candidate). Hillary Clinton runs as the first woman candidate with a serious chance. Edwards wants to have a similarly “heroic” narrative. But when he can say about his own background? I am yet another White WASP candidate with tons of money running for president? So he as to veer far to the left and get enablers like Chris Matthews to repeat the exaggerated story of Edwards supposedly impoverished childhood. And in the Democratic Party, that will always be trumped.
Larraby on November 12, 2007 at 10:31 AM
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