Jayne Lyn Stahl: Edwards: Too Soon for Political Obituary

"So, maybe the media has timed out on John Edwards. Maybe the pay for view press has decided to shrink the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination to two candidates, but this would be premature evacuation."

This opening paragraph came from HuffPo. It is a clear argument about how the media should not decide our elections and why Edwards is still very much in this race. He is the only one at this point that will get all of our combat forces out of Iraq or redeployed. Thus, Stahl adds the hint of lessons not learned from the Vietnam era to her argument about the media:

If we, in this country, weren't so insistent upon novelty, and looked instead to competency, John Edwards would be, by far, the clear leader as the nominee of the Democratic Party. Yet, in keeping with their time-honored tradition, the Democrats will instead show their uncanny ability to foul it up all just when a victory is most needed, and instead of delivering an end to a war which has lasted longer than Vietnam, we will, yet again, deliver a nominee who is guaranteed to pull an LBJ and keep fanning the flames of war in the name of bringing the boys home. The lies are the same; the only thing that's changed is the calendar.The danger of not having real change.

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