QUOTE: Roger Simon shares my pain:
"[a two man race between Kerry and Dean] is bad because a two-man race of this sort will push the Democratic Party to the left, particularly on the war. With Dean surging like this, and pushing on Kerry, the contest will become about which candidate more despises the War in Iraq. Intelligent discussion of the most important subject of our day will be minimized. Nuances on the subject will disappear. Edwards at least had a relatively clean slate on the issue--and occasionally he made sense on it."
Sigh. I've told OGIW on a couple of occasions that Edwards is a Hubert Humphrey for our generation: enormously talented, good (in a moral and political sense), and forever doomed to do less well than he should, in a perfect world.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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