EDWARDS FRIENDS: Closing Time (You Don't Have to Go Home, but You Can't Stay Here)

[CorpGovActivist]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdmLmIArqWM">I know who I wanted to take us home to the White House: John Edwards.

For all the high-fiving around here about healing and harmony, there are still a lot of us Edwards supporters who saw last night's debate very differently. Obama *should* have been more forceful about fighting the corporatist status quo.

Maybe John will endorse. Maybe the reason his campaign isn't in full-blown wind-down mode is that a deal *was* cut. I hope. God, how I hope.

This sudden rush to pair up the two remaining candidates reminds me of closing time and last call, when standards reach rock bottom, and the dregs are drained from the mugs and from the establishment.

For those who have found coyote ugly love: :toast: <-------- to beer goggles; may you always have a pair handy

An Edwardian annotation to the song appears below for fellow Edwardians. Click on the link above and follow along, if you'd like. This round's on me.

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Closing time - time for you to go out, go out into the world.

(Yes, go out into the world, and do the things that John and Elizabeth exhorted us to do, my friends.)

Closing time - turn the lights up over every boy and every girl.

(Yes, shed light on them before Tsunami Tuesday.)

Closing time - one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer.

(The time for tears in our beer is now past.)

Closing time - you don't have to go home but you can't stay here.

(No, we can't stay here in a morose state. We have to wield our remaining influence for Tuesday.)

I know who I want to take me home.

(John)

I know who I want to take me home.

(Elizabeth)

I know who I want to take me home.

(Cate)

Take me home...

(To the Veep's residence, if not the White House)

Closing time - time for you to go back to the places you will be from.

(A more progressive place now that John has inspired us to our best.)

Closing time - this room won't be open 'til your brothers or you sisters
come.

(Hello, my brothers and sisters. The back room for Edwards is now open.)

So gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits - I hope you have found
a friend.

(Yeah, quite a few.)

Closing time - every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

(Endings are but beginnings, and John helped set in motion something new and exciting.)

Yeah, I know who I want to take me home.

(John)

I know who I want to take me home.

(Wade)

I know who I want to take me home.

(Emma Claire)

Take me home...

Closing time - time for you to go back to the places you will be from...

I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
Take me home...

[smiley_glad_hands]

1. I'm flipping a coin the day of. eom

[CorpGovActivist]

2. My Talisman of Choice...

... will be a clothespin, not a coin.

One week from Tuesday, the Beltway Trimary takes place. I hope it still matters.

- Dave

[nichomachus]

5. None of it matters

The nomination will be decided by the Superdelegates. They make up 37 percent of the delegates at the convention. So, if either candidate goes into the convention with less than 60 percent of the delegates in his/her pocket, it will be the Superdelegates who decide.

If voting made any difference, it would be illegal --Emma Goldman

[CK_John]

13. Here is the correct info, less than 20%, 3253 plus 796 equals 4049. n/t

[CorpGovActivist]

25. More on superdelegates...

... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegates">here.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. If he is ont he ballot, I am voting for John..and if not, I will write him in.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. Pretty much where I am. Probably where I will stay. I just can't see myself voting for either of

two remaining or the one left standing. If I had wanted to support them, instead of John, I would have. I didn't and I don't.

[CorpGovActivist]

32. I'd love a clear signal from him.

[SammyWinstonJack]

33. That would be nice.

[Gloria]

44. voting in NM on Tues; ditto on write-in for Nov.

[saracat]

4. Vote for John.Delegates still count!

[CorpGovActivist]

34. I'm torn.

Virginia votes on the 12th. I sincerely feel for Tsunami Tuesday Edwardians.

- Dave

[neutron]

37. Just use your hands. Right for Obama. Left for HRC.

[CorpGovActivist]

3. Get our butts in gear KICK n/t

[cascadiance]

7. Hell, I'm wearing my Edwards t-shirt I just got in the mail today...

... from that big fundraising friday a week ago. I figure I might as well wear it at least once or twice, and now is as good a time as any before Super Tuesday!

[CorpGovActivist]

45. Might as well!

Irony hurts sometimes.

- Dave

[ErnestoG]

8. I'm still praying for an Obama/Edwards ticket.

That pair would be damn near unstoppable.

[CorpGovActivist]

36. delete

[CorpGovActivist]

48. Amen!

I could boogie to it.

- Dave

[Yael]

9. I am an Edwards Democrat

:patriot:

[ChiciB1]

11. I Will Hang With You On That One Yael!! We Were Family... Still

are, and I can't read the above without my tears streaming down my face, all over again!

I sincerely believe that the Edwards supporters here had SO MUCH HEART & LOYALTY to him and it's much too hard to just "exit!"

[CorpGovActivist]

16. Hug it out.

:grouphug:

[ChiciB1]

30. Thanks... Still In "Mourning!" It's Gonna Take Me Time!! n/t

[CorpGovActivist]

35. The stages of grief are not linear. Two steps forward, one step back. n/t

[saracat]

39. Hey we are NOT exiting! I am getting me some more delgates!

We might not get the WH but damn me if they are going to get either my vote or get me down without a fight!

[CorpGovActivist]

51. Maybe John will give us a smoke signal on Sunday.

[CorpGovActivist]

15. Since we're marooned on this dessert isle...

... I vote we go Gilligany, not Lord of the Flies.

All in favor?

- Dave

[Yael]

17. Does the Ted Kennedy Scotch of the Month club deliver there?

[CorpGovActivist]

19. Funnily enough, an old Merchant Mariner revealed to me that the Kennedys ran booze using...

... those ships during Prohibition.

The men were well-paid: in coin and in-kind.

:toast:

- Dave

[Yael]

42. LOL!!

:toast:

[CorpGovActivist]

46. Makes perfect sense, does it not?

I didn't believe it at first, but he was in dead earnest.

:toast: <----------- to the Merchant Marine and Moonshiners!

- Dave

[Mark Twain Girl]

20. Me too

:patriot:

Ahh, this thread made me smile. The Edwards family: the life of the party. :)

[CorpGovActivist]

29. I'm very happy...

... that it maybe brought a little ray of sunshine thru the stormclouds.

:hug:

- Dave

[foxer]

12. Dropping anchor to ride out the storm

[CorpGovActivist]

14. Pull up a barstool on the "wreck" of the S.S. Edwards...

... there be plenty o' rum left in the ship's stores, and the island is bountiful.

We're gonna turn that railing into a bar. Maybe tomorrow.

- Dave

[kelligesq]

18. JOHN EDWARDS IS BACK IN -

Happy days are here again...da da da da da da da da

Here's the newspaper article:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4337743&mesg_id=4337871

The party tried to push him out...I'm pretty sure we brought him back in

CAll everyone you know in the Feb 5 states and tell them to vote John Edwards

[CorpGovActivist]

21. When I see it on JohnEdwards.com...

... then I'll believe it. Until then, here's hoping.

:toast:

- Dave

[kelligesq]

24. Didnt you read the newspaper article from Rhode Island here:

Edwards Wants To Remain On R.I. Ballot

fixing link

full article here

http://www.turnto10.com/northeast/jar/ne ws.apx.-content-articles-JAR-2008-02-01- 0015.html

also go over to his site and it's on the far right side in dark blue, one of the blogs.

[CorpGovActivist]

27. A nod and wink won't do on this. Backchannel fingers to the side of the nose won't do.

The principal - that is to say, the candidate himself - must say, "I watched the debate. I did not see what I needed to see to endorse, or vote for, either of these remaining choices. I'm back in it."

- Dave

[saracat]

40. Kelli, for whatever reson they took him off the ballot in RI and he asked to be put back

that is all.Probably the state mistakenly removed him thinking he withdrew. He is ON the ballot in the Super Tuesday States.Always has been.But the campaign is still suspended. This isn't a reversal of anything! We can still vote for him and encourge others to but fundamentally nothing has changed.He ISN"T back IN.He was never completely out.He is just back on the Ballot in RI.

[balantz]

22. I have no where else to go.

:patriot:
I'm a John Edwards man.

[CorpGovActivist]

23. The Edwards Back Room...

... is open. Welcome.

- Dave

[kelligesq]

26. Funny guy

:rofl:

[CorpGovActivist]

28. The best way not to be eaten first on the dessert island?

Oh, yeah!

:rofl:

[ecstatic]

31. "when standards reach rock bottom"

That's not nice, in fact, it's ugly to say that about Clinton and Obama.

You should re-assess your Edwardania because he made a fool of you (his supporters) once again. You just don't see it yet.

[CorpGovActivist]

54. "You should re-assess your Edwardania because he made a fool of you (his supporters) once again."

Thanks for the lessons in nice.

- Dave

[AspenRose]

38. You are so cool.

Just wanted to say that.

:hug:

I have no idea what I'm going to do (Bidenista here).

[CorpGovActivist]

43. Hey, thanks!

:hug:

:toast:

Music helped me through the one really bad break-up I've had in my life.

Lesson learned, lesson applied.

- Dave

[LWolf]

41. I know who I'm willing to allow to take me home,

and it's not Clinton or Obama. I'll vote for Gravel if he's on the ballot, or I'll write in DK.

[CorpGovActivist]

47. Cheers!

:toast:

[Yael]

49. Salute!

:toast: <~~ in keeping with the apparent these of this thread.

:D

[CorpGovActivist]

50. Slurring commences.

Wuz that "theme" or "thesis"?

I love you, man! No, really, I mean it. I loooooooooooove you man. Let's have another.

:beer:

[LWolf]

52. To your health.

:toast:

;)

[CorpGovActivist]

53. Slainte!

:toast: