Should Al Gore and John Edwards do the right thing?

[HardWorkingDem]

My view is Al Gore and John Edwards should hold a joint press conference and endorse Obama. I do not think it is helpful at all what the Clinton machine is starting to do and that it will only get worse because they are playing a scorched earth game.

But what really baffles me is how oblivious they are to what they are doing - they are clearly showing winning for them, is all that is important to them.

[LisaM]

1. I woudn't consider that the right thing. Are you just trying to rile Hillary supporters?

I think they are doing the right thing by NOT endorsing. Let the voters make up their own minds.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I think Al Gore and John Edwards should stay out of it

and let Hillary and Barack stand or fall on their own merits.

[emilyg]

41. Yep.

[blogslut]

3. I would rather both of them stay out of the endorsing business

...until we have a nominee

[BlackVelvet04]

4. They both should do the right thing and endorse Hillary.....

we don't need a rookie senator as president.

[LSK]

7. why would anti-corporate Edwards endorse corporate Hillary??

Have you lost your sense of logic?

[BlackVelvet04]

10. Like Obama is anti-corporate.....

what a joke.

[LSK]

17. what an EMPTY ACCUSATION

Care to comment about Obama approaching 1 million donars???

Check with your DLC candidate...

[jackson_dem]

40. And Edwards is well aware of that

He mentioned Obama had received more money from the drug industry than any other candidate in either party during the Nevada debate. Edwards' campaign manager also spoke of Obama carrying the drug and insurance industry's water in Illinois.

It is funny how Obamites remember his criticisms of Hillary but forget his criticisms of Obama. He did target Hill more but so did everyone else. The front runner is always the prime target (look at the rethugs. The top target changed from McCain to Giuliani to Romney and then McCain again. It wasn't that they started to like Giuliani. He just became less important and they shifted focus accordingly). When he began the race, though, his chief target was actually Obama since Obama messed up his plan as running as the anti-Hillary. He needed to knock Obama down in order to continue the plan and it didn't work.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. Rookie?

I suppose you think Clinton's been running a better campaign too?

[cali]

26. better a rookie Senator than

having Hilly with her bad judgment, lack of leadership and inability to so much as run her campaign, as our nominee. Anyway, you've already announced that you won't vote for him if he is the nominee, and that makes you just another blinded partisan.

[Skoods]

5. Seriously...

How is that the right thing?

Just because you support Obama, doesn't mean everyone else has to.

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. !

:thumbsup: :applause:

[Lucinda]

31. Welcome to DU!

And good point! :hi:

[Skoods]

33. Thanks

I'm glad I came about this site, because I was utterly sick of Huff Post and the other sites that were obviously biased.

I am a Democrat, and will always support the Democrats. But it's starting to get really disheartening that we are breaking in two because of this race.

The two candidates, while different in their methods, are basically the same when it comes to the issues. I'm just so sick of both sides attacking the other sides supporters. We founded this country based on the principles that all citizens could make their own decision and choose based on who they believe is the best candidate. The Democratic party is supposed to be the party of the people. Let's start acting like it and show our support for both of these fine candidates. We have not had two dynamic and popular candidates like in quite a long time.

Obama preaches that he can "unite" the nation. Yet his supporters seem to be doing everything in their power to divide our party.

[Adelante]

6. I don't think it matters at this point

Gore will be more needed if an agreement needs brokering.

[LostinVA]

8. Why is that the right thing?

Personally, I think neither should enorse anyone for Party peace, but HRC is closer to Gore and even Edwards on most issues than Obama is. There's a reason why RFK, Jr. and the sibs endorsed HRC, and no, it's not because of the Senate seat.

:eyes:

[doni_georgia]

9. Ed Shultz said something similar yesterday

He said Gore and other party leaders should meet with the Clintons to find out what their agenda is. In other words, is it worth doing whatever it takes to have a shot at the nomination if you bring the party down with you? Personally I have said all along I will vote for the nominee, but I do not see how what the Clintons are doing is helping the Democratic party.

[HardWorkingDem]

13. This is how I feel....

When it comes to the scorched earth practice, which I see starting to happen, I don't see any of this helping the party. I don't think HRC will pull in all the new voters that Obama will, or the independents.

[K Gardner]

24. Not only will she not pull them in, she will push them away. What a nice WELCOME to the Democratic

party for millions of new voters... a ringside seat to Hillary playing Karl Rove.

[doni_georgia]

27. This is what has turned me off of Hillary

I see her attacking Barack Obama for the same things that could have been said (and were said) about Bill in 1992. Bill was a Washington outsider. He was an eloquent speaker who inspired people to believe in hope again. He was someone who attracted first-time voters and people who had deserted the party in 1980. The Clintons of the 90s stood-up and spoke out against the Republican attack machine and the dirty politics of Lee Atwater, but now they are acting just like them, in my opinion. I'm a life-time Democrat. I'm not naive - I have worked on several campaigns in the past 25 years. I know what politics is like. I just don't get the Clintons in this race.

[Kazak]

11. Not sure why Gore would endorse Obama,...

considering their respective stances on coal liquefaction.

:shrug:

[onehandle]

12. The race is too close. They should stay out of it. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. I think that both Gore and Edwards would be happy to see this election

be the last hurrah of the DLC.

If they stay out of it, it will be all the more obvious when Hillary's campaign collapses - they are not necessary to push it over the edge.

When Obama gets the nomination, they can buttonhole the DLCers and point out the benefits for abandoning that failed strategy, bring them to the same realization that they themselves came to after 2000 and 2004, respectively.

[Cameron27]

15. I don't think that would be the right thing,

and I'd be surprised if Edwards endorsed someone who attacked the mandate proposals in Hillary's universal healthcare plan.

[niyad]

16. the right thing is to let the voters decide. I personally do not give a tinker's damn about

endorsements. and gore basically said he was staying out of it.

[Prefer]

18. The fact that Edwards has done nothing makes him irrelevant

Edwards has played a sitting game to see what was to his greatest benefit. In doing so, he has shown that his interest is only in himself, not the party or progress.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. .

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[calico1]

22. The right thing for them to do is what they feel

the right thing to do is.

[displacedtexan]

23. After Gore's Dean endorsement, I don't think either Gore or Edwards...

will jump in until they think there's a clear winner.

Of course, I could be wrong.

[polichick]

25. If msm reports are correct...

Gore has joined with a few other Dems (including Biden) to talk about plans for making sure things go the way of the people at the convention.

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[Beaverhausen]

28. A Gore/Edwards ticket works for me

oh, that wasn't what you were suggesting. Nevermind.

[mnhtnbb]

38. YES! There's a ticket I can support. Third party, anyone?

[Seabiscuit]

29. Gore and Edwards in my opinion should stay neutral. nt

[book_worm]

30. They should do what they want to do and endorse whoever they wish.

[BenDavid]

32. There is something that maybe edwards and gore see in

obama that is not right and they have not warmed up to obama nor ingested his words and got inspired and got that sensation running through their bodies like chris matthews says he got.

Still no endorsement from John Edwards? Is he playing both sides, looking to make his best deal?

You watch, when he finally decides, I'll bet he says, "I chose _______ because the difference between these two is hueueueuge,"

...but funny it's taking him so long to see that very hueueueuege difference.

[Uncle Joe]

37. I suspect after the Supreme Court decided the will of the people was irrelevant in 2000 and

an arbitrary date was more important, that Al Gore has come to the opposite conclusion and is currently giving the American People the maximum amount of time to make their decision as to who they want for the most powerful job in the land. Ultimately I believe Al Gore will support that decision unless the race ends exceptionally close with neither candidate having enough delegates to win out right, in which case I'm not sure what he will do.

[libodem]

34. Endorse Obama?

They should run! They would make a hell of a team.

[balantz]

35. Should Al Gore and John Edwards do the right thing?

Yes, I think they should be elected as president and vice-president and help to save this country from ruin!

[Sanctified]

36. It would not be doing the right thing.

I would not mind if Edwards came out and endorsed a candidate after the March 4th primary but Gore should not endorse any candidates even in the General. My reasoning for this is I think Al Gore is bigger than the President of the United States and by endorsing a candidate he is putting himself under them. I think Al Gore has an important mission for our environment and needs to be able to work closely with whoever gets elected, if he endorses one candidate and the other gets elected then there could be some issues with him getting the elected Presidents support for environmental change.

When I look at Al Gore I see a man who has evolved passed simple party politics and is entirely on a new level with world environmental politics. Were talking about a man who holds more power than any other leader in the world when it comes to Environmental matters, when Al Gore speaks leaders listen.

[HardWorkingDem]

39. What bothers me about Gore and the environment is this....

I'm concerned it is again in just another cyclical popularity spike like in the past and next year we will be back to shark attacks off of Florida or some other theme of the year cycle.

Don't get me wrong - I believe the environment and Gore are very important, but that the attention span of the world waxes and wanes and soon we will all be talking about something else.

[Uncle Joe]

42. Honestly, I believe we've reached the point where the environment itself

will not allow that to happen. Global warming climate is becoming too big for them to hide anymore and it's tragic effects will become increasingly apparent to even the most cynical skeptics, whether it's flood, drought, increase in forest fires, more tornadoes in the winter and in areas which hadn't experienced them before, the melting of the Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland, the cat is out of the bag regarding this issue.

Also the movie An Inconvenient Truth and subsequent Nobel Peace Prize is too much water under the bridge for the corporate media to dismiss with the same lack of public awareness which existed before. Not to say some won't try, Neanderthals such as Limbaugh, Inhofe etc. but by doing so they will become increasingly irrelevant as a result.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

43. ...

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