I hope the Edwards camp puts out a release.

Billy Graham's wife died in NC today.

Maybe have people donate to a fund for charity to see Edwards get his head shaved military-style?

It'd be humorous and would humanize him. And may deflect the criticism.

I don't know. Something should be done. Unless they can just wait it out and let it pass.

If he's on edge now, this idea will push him off the cliff. Absolutely horrible.

The "Harvards" include the other Democratic frontrunners.  

This is after all the democratic primary not the republican one.

win in Iowa! Thats what I would suggest.

I can see Edwards come out against the immigration and run against it like the GOP hopefuls....Althought the Lou Dobbs immigration rhetorics is hot inside the GOP electorate, they are a few Lou Dobbs democrats that hates it because they don't want illegal immigrants to be given a path to citizenship.

Iowa is not liberal and it pretty much moderate/conservative, so it could still play well inside the Iowa democratic electorate there.

The problem for Edwards is, if he attacks this bill as a "tancredo democrats" a lot of folks will see it as 'Edwards playing politics with the issues as usuall"...Edwards came out for the path to citizenship, so if he flips on this issue, specially as his campaign is faltering, it could generate more bad press then good press.

Anyway, i think it's something that Edwards should think about...He'll probably loose some of his latino endorsements, but hey, it's not like those endorsement are doing anything for him at the polls, so he may want to shake things up a bit and do more flip flops on the issues again until he catches fire.

I have stood by Edwards since he got in this race because he seemed to be the only viable POPULIST candidate on the issues.  His unabashed support of unions, fair trade, and the working class is what set him apart from the other candidates.  Yet I don't see him making that the defining issue of THIS campaign.  Instead he seems to have a Santa Claus list of proposals that leave his campaign in a fog of muddled ideas.  Quite simply, what the hell happened to the "Two America's"?    

For an example let's look at the last debate.  What did Edwards do to distinguish himself from the rest of the pack?  He went after Hillary because she "didn't apologize" for her war vote.   He attacked Obama because he "voted no at the last minute" on the war funding bill (thus setting himself up for the "4 years too late on this issue" zinger).  And then he tells everyone that his first act as President would be to "travel the world to re-establish America's moral authority" (which got a lot of blank stares from the crowd including myself).  But what hurt the most was to see Dennis Kucinich rail against NAFTA and the other lousy trade agreements to the delight of the crowd.  That should have been Edwards issue but Kucinich stole it and got one of the biggest applause lines of the evening for it.  Edwards HARDLY sounded like a populist in that debate.    

And just to refresh our memory, populism is:

 A political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite.

I'm also reminded of what Jim Webb said in his SOTU response back in January.

"In the early days of our republic, President Andrew Jackson established an important principle of American-style democracy - that we should measure the health of our society not at its apex, but at its base.  Not with the numbers that come out of Wall Street, but with the living conditions that exist on Main Street."

Remember the buzz after Webb gave that speech?  People are hungry for someone to take on Corporate America and do something about the disappearing MIDDLE CLASS.  Hungry for a POPULIST.  But everyone seems to be silent on this issue in 2008.  It's all about Iraq and who has the hottest health care proposal.  And Edwards has gotten sucked into that vortex.  

John Edwards won me (and a lot of others) over in 2004 with his "Two Americas" speech because I believed he was a candidate that was NOT AFRAID to declare class war and speak truth to power about the economic divide.  It was a simple concrete message about the socioeconomic realities in this country and it nearly carried him to victory in Iowa.  It was also a message that stood in STARK CONTRAST to the Clinton free market ideology and the DLC corporatism that have infected our party.   As John Edwards continues to shy away from that message he will have lost the very thing that sets him apart from the other candidates in this race.

and do a commercial for them donating the money to charity..

making fun of outrageous prices that other places charge..

or something like that