But do all Edwards voters fall in line like the Prussian infantry?

Obama has done this because without the Edwards delegates, of which there will probably be around 200, there is no way Obama can win.

I am personally not sure I would be willing to vote for a candidate who didn't win the majority of primary voters though.

Is that not like stealing the nomination?

He really can not make his delegates vote for obama. He could only recommend. he does not own them.

I'd love to see Edwards in the job of AG.  Among other things, given his childhood in the segregated South, I'm sure he'd see it as an important priority to set things right in the Voting Rights Division that has been so mistreated under Bush.

The US Chamber of Commerce and the business community in general would, as the young folks say, "flip its shit," if John Edwards were the A.G.O.U.S.

I generally like Obama, but I've seen nothing from him that suggests he has the kind of guts to stick with John Edwards through a Senate confirmation process.

However, if Obama (or Clinton) did nominate Edwards as AGOUS, and he were somehow confirmed, Edwards would be absolutely transformative. I would fully expect him to become the greatest Attorney General the US in American History.

looked like Hillary had a lock.

Yogi Berra said: It ain't over til its over

I think either Hillary or Obama would want Edwards as AG.

Edwards gets either AG or Labor.  Count on it...

It actually sounds a little like a hail mary pass to me. If this starts to get traction what does Edwards go down to on Super T. He's already going to be around 5% in my judgement.

I can just see that picture of George Washington on your tax dollars, crying a little tear.

And the uprating of it are a perfect microcosm of what this once fine site has become.

When diaries come out to push the "rumors" like this, they just feel like they are asking us to give up because the deal has been made. Move on over to O or C because your candidate has already made a deal.

I say BS until John Edwards says something himself.

Sorry for the rant but I hate rumors like this that try to lead Edwards supporters in another direction..

issue:  JFK & RFK

Talk amongst yourselves...

I gather then that you support our current system of financing camapigns through PACs and corporate interests to public financing.  That's proven to be sooooo full of equanimity, justice, and fair-handedness.  Some opinions are harder to respect than others, it must be said.

John Edwards does not own me, either.  That said, I will give a great deal of weight to his endorsement.   Presumably, indeed, I would sincerely HOPE his support would come at a price, that price being the ability to see too it that his issues are addressed by the next Democratic administration.   For me, this is a lot more about that 80-page booklet than the candidate himself.  

Hillary/Obama with Edwards as AG -- throw in Bill and you have 4 high powered campaigners blanketing across the country.  If they could get Gore in the mix (by campaigning, i HIGHLY doubt he will get back in government), you can blitz the country with the 5 strongest Dems in the party.  The power behind that will lead to a landslide victory

Hillary/Obama with Edwards as AG -- throw in Bill and you have 4 high powered campaigners blanketing across the country.  If they could get Gore in the mix (by campaigning, i HIGHLY doubt he will get back in government), you can blitz the country with the 5 strongest Dems in the party.  The power behind that will lead to a landslide victory

I think it's time to start adding the Obama and Edwards delegates into one column. Sorry Hillary, but Edwards is giving his delegates to the Obama man.

After Jonathan Stein at Mother Jones says "more Edwards" he finishes the paragraph by saying:

Of course, the Edwards folks probably don't want to hear that. They want to hear "Edwards for prez!" And that's why the Obama people are floating this rumor, assuming it's true: it gets the progressive media to laud Edwards' potential as an attorney general while further marginalizing his chances for the presidency.

Of course, there are people who just might not want Edwards to use their vote as a bargining chip. I may decide that I personally want to choose between Clinton or Obama myself rather than have Edwards make my choice for me.  

I doubt Edwards even wants it; like the media likes to say, he's a professional presidential candidate.  He gave in once and got burned.  I doubt he'll do that twice.

Edwards would make a Great Attorney general. It better suits his strengths and style. He'll be a pit bull for the people and he and Obama could do the good cop, bad cop routine on special interests out to scuttle Obama's policy initiatives.

Edwards will terrify the corporate sleaze balls and bad actors. While Obama can reward and work with the companies and investors helping to innovate and build the nations future.

After SC I decided to switch my vote from Edwards to Obama. I'm happy to see Obama incorporating a lot of Edwards narrative in his speeches and I'd be even happier to see Edwards as AG.

Any story based on a Robert Novack column strikes me as not really worth giving serious thought to. I think this is a result of a superficial view of politics in which its all horse-trading among individuals, rather than at some level a competition of ideas and movements. In any event, if Obama is actually giving thought to his AG will be, he's really not doing what he needs to be doing to beat Clinton.

My guess is this story is bunk too.  I sure hope so.  What on earth qualifies John Edwards to be AG?  His legal career consists of medical malpractice suits which is the most useless, unproductive, and shysterific branch of the law there is.  If he were nominated I'd hope to see him rejected; he is qualified to be AG about as much as Harriet Meyers was to be on the SCOUS.

My support stays with Edwards to the convention.

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