Obama, Edwards, Clinton - help me out here please

[Coexist]

I have been gone awhile. I was just worn out and sad.

My man was Clark - he bowed out, but I hoped he was in line for the Veep.

My man was Gore - he never even officially backed out.

I waited for a Clark endorsement - it was Clinton. That left me cold.

My local DEC is full of Clinton supporters. The air of inevitability was hanging over me. I stopped going to meetings. The war votes killed my excitement, and I stopped watching any news shows. It really depressed me to see what our side was doing. I stopped posting at DU, stopped reading the HuffPost, Firedoglake, Kos, EVERYONE. I just concentrated on the holidays and my family.

Yesterday, curiosity got the better of me. If I HAD to choose from the available field, it would have been Biden. Don't know why - the other's answers never went into important detail. His did.

Biden bowed out, Obama won. Edwards second.

I feel like I should try to get back in the game, to help elect a Democrat. I am WAY behind. Are they still all bickering like children over who is the "change" candidate??

Please, DU, let me know - which of the top three do you support, and why should I agree with you and help your candidate? What is going on in here!

[MethuenProgressive]

1. "which of the top three do you support"... there's the rub.

My top candidate isn't one of them.
He's just the guy with "arguably the best resume of any candidate for the presidency in nation’s history"

Richardson instinctive with Iowa-flavored humor
by: Douglas Burns

RED OAK -- ...rural Iowans love humor. Go into any coffee shop, local eatery, bar or grain elevator. Have lunch with the Rotary or Kiwanis clubs. Customers joke with waitresses. Truck drivers joke with clerks. Old men in feed hats spend hours over 30-cent cups of coffee giving each other the business over something or another. In our more urban areas, and the growing spirit-crushing suburbs, there are a lot Hillary Clintons. She's rushing to the White House. They're rushing to Bed, Bath & Beyond. But in my part of the state, western Iowa, the place where the caucuses will be decided, naturally folksy humor goes a long way.

Of the top four Democratic candidates in the race, Bill Richardson, the New Mexico governor, is most natural with a Sunday lemonade-brand of spontaneous humor. It’s instinctive for him, and it’s one of the reasons he’s climbing in the polls. He’s disarming. The jokes get people to see past the suit and tie and title and platoon of earnest young staffers. “We hit 10 percent,” Richardson said Saturday in Red Oak. “That’s pretty good for having been at the margin of error.” Richardson noted that New Mexico now has eight movies being made in the state. “One of the conditions is that I have to star in all of them,” he joked, with a wink to the fact that's he's a few pounds ahead of leading man fighting weight.

Near the end of his visit to Red Oak, Richardson tapped the shoulder of a woman sitting next to him while making a point about education. The woman clearly hadn’t been paying full attention to his remarks and was a little startled. “Did I wake you up?” said Richardson with a wide smile. He tapped his watch and said, “I’ll finish soon.”
In Denison a few weeks ago Richardson said he signed a smoking ban in New Mexico but exempted cigar bars. He shrugged and told the audience, “Hey, I’m a cigar smoker.” Richardson talks about how he will work on Iraq the first day he’s in office, energy independence the next, and health-care and education on the third day. “The fourth day,” he says, pausing. “I’ll take off.” That line works on so many levels.

The new advertisements in which Richardson sits down for a job interview for the presidency with a rude, sandwich-chomping “employer,” are more humorous than much of the material late-night comics produce. Another reason humor works well for Richardson: There’s little danger the use of it will make him seem an unserious person. Richardson has arguably the best resume of any candidate for the presidency in the nation’s history: Governor, congressman, United Nations ambassador and Secretary of Energy. As Richardson hits the small towns of Iowa, pays his due the old-fashioned way, he’ll make many Iowans comfortable with him. He comes across as a person who genuinely likes people. The same cannot be said of all candidates.
http://www.iowaindependent.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=178

[lisainmilo]

4. Why not look at what the candidates stand for?

Why not do some investigating to see who best stands for what you believe in?
For me it is John Edwards.
and here is why
http://www.johnedwards.com/issues/

[Coexist]

6. I have never gotten much from campaign website or flyers.

I like watching their answers to good questions. However, the endless rounds of debates left me numb. The same lame questions, the same non-answer/answers laced with talking points.

Like I said, I missed out on the last two months - I am behind - any good youtube links to help me get excited about your candidate?

[Angela Shelley]

2. Go Edwards!

[aquart]

3. You want Obama? Vote for him.

[Coexist]

8. I don't know who I want. I just know I want to get behind SOMEONE.

[midnight]

5. Hopefully what I have to say might recharge you. I agree with

everyone here at D.U. We want a democratic President. But here is where it gets very important. We can't just pick any democratic contender. Nope-Joe Lieberman, Nancy Pelosi have driven home that point. We need someone who no longer will make concessions with our rights. We need someone who will make sure our troops come home-ASAP. We need someone who will not make nice nice with the Insurance company's who tell us our treatment is not medically necessary. We need someone that will stop job loss via NAFTA. These are the things that most impress me about John Edwards. He will fight for our rights, and not negotiate some of them away in the spirit of making concessions.

[Coexist]

7. what has he said about NAFTA?

[mdmc]

9. kick

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