Edwards Supporters Refuse to Shake Clinton’s Hand

My respect for Edwards and Romney supporters definitely had an uptick – not sure if this is an outlier though :)

They have almost as little class as their candidate, who tried to pile on Hillary yesterday, after the alleged “cry”, the latest media fantasy.
Edwards will be gone after NH, thankfully.

In an off-chance that I might run into Hillary and she wanted to shake my hand, I wouldn’t be rude about it, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to shake her hand. If I were on a political team I would though. It’s a sportsman like thing to do.

Us democrats from NC remember Edwards for a number of reasons, like when he won his Senate seat and immediately began pouring money into Iowa for his prez bid last time. Then he left his Senate seat and handed it over to Liddy Dole. At least he now acts like a populist and wants to attack the corporate criminals that run our country and the republican party. I would vote for him if he wins the nod like I would for any democrat, but I
like Kucinich and Obama and Dennis told his Iowa people to go for Obama. DEAR JOHN…sorry it did not work out for you, please support the DEMO nominee or ask for the VP nod if you want it.

It’s a shame he refused to shake hands with Sen Clinton. May be he thought he will gain some points for doing that but instead made him look stupid. Anyway, I’m not counting out Sen clinton no matter the outcome of NH.

Refusing to shake hands with a former first lady and a current Senator is rude and childish. I’m a John Edwards supporter and I’m ashamed that someone else that support him has so little class. It’s not like a handshake is a commitment to vote for someone.

This is not a story. Journalistically, this is a smear of the Edwards campaign through the actions of one supporter. I can’t believe I’m reading this on ABCNEWS.com. First they ignore him, then they smear him. Pathetic.

Also, as to John Edwards comment after being questioned about Clinton’s emotional time. I think it was a matter of fact comment, with little judgment. It is hard and grueling, but less than the pace of President, unless you’re GWB who takes more vacation time than anyone. He may wish he had framed his answer differently, since what he said is being parsed and made to be negative. I think he said more today actually.
That being said, I think it odd that Clinton met in an “intimate” setting with a few “close supporters” and this meeting was taped and distributed. Does that make it spontaneous? Is it an attempt to make her less “hard”?
I don’t doubt that this is an exhausting pace to maintain and an emotional roller coaster that most of us can only barely imagine and moments of emotion are to be expected. What those emotional moments amount to are for us to evaluate. Try to be fair, though that isn’t so easy from a distance.

Good point about the media coverage on this. The media conglomerates don’t want an Edwards presidency because of his anti corporate anti conglomerate stance; he is definitely a threat to their current monopolies. So it is good to point out that he gets little media coverage unless it can be negative… pathetic and aggravating too.
I support John Edwards. Don’t write him off yet. The front runners can and are self destructing at any time.
And it’s really early yet.

Mr. Edwards himself was very ungracious yesterday when told about Sen. Clinton eyes tearing up. It wasn’t until he heard what Elizabeth said that he backed down.
Edwards is living in another world. He touts a 0.28% edge over Sen. Clinton as a huge victory and coming very close to Sen.Obama. Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton tied for the union households vote in Iowa. He was third. Sen. Obama received 31% of the Democratic vote, and Sen. Clinton received 30%. This after Mr. Edwards has virtually camped out in Iowa.
Mr. Edwards says that this is a two man race; he is wrong. It is a tow person race – Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton.

Opalheart,
Maybe when GWB is on vacation, he still has to take the presidency, and all that it entails with him.
Just like you do when you go on vacation. I mean, when Burger King lets you take days off, you still take orders, flip the burgers, and drop the fries, even at stores down the street, right?
I think not!
Har Har!

Edwards is a spoiler. I believe he knows he has no chance of winning and yet he continues to strategize on who best to beat up on. I don’t even think Obama asked him to take this role of bashing Clinton and neither do I think Obama wants Edwards onboard his team. Anyway, it looks like spoiler and angry guy is a role Edwards seems to relish. He wants to FIGHT anyone and everyone, manufacture controversy and then jump in with a smile like he did in Iowa and become Rodney King – “People, can’t we all just get along!’ Alas, I think we probably have not seen the last of this base opportunist.I fear that he will continue to run unsuccessfully for President every 4 or 8 years like some others. And BTW, before y’all jump on me, I’m probably going to vote for a Republican so I have no dog in the Dems race.

I see stories like these and worry for our country. Honestly, who cares that this one did not shake that ones hands. For that matter who cares that this one killed that one 500 miles from my home. Is that “news”? I say no, an neither is Opra! No, “we the people” are being cast down to the lowest common denominator by cynical corporate elite who turn “our” politicians into prostitutes, while they turn us into mindless fools living our lives through Dr. Phil & Survivor & American Idle. “We the people” need to take the USA “and our jobs” back from the corporate elite and china…. We need to do it before we are all flipping burgers and being refused life saving medical services because we cannot afford it on our 3rd world income!!!! And to that black woman of Katrina fame who said “W” does not like “Black people”!!!!! No dear…it is “Poor People” he does not like…Oh and by the way…in “W’s” eyes…the entire middle class are poor!!! We are just sheep to be fleeced…

“First the ignore him then they smear him”.
–reminds me of the famous Ghandi quote:
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”

Greg, Pre Hillary /Vic Edwards is my first choice, Edwards is my second, McCain my third…I’m a Republican…

Dear stone…can you explain the following?:
“Sen. Obama, when he was in the state Senate in Illinois, took money from the health insurance industry at the same time that he was suggesting an amendment that was favorable to the health insurance industry and was unfavorable to the people of the Illinois,”

When fellow Democrats can’t get along with each other, how are they expected to make nice with Republicans?
If that had been Rudy trying to shake hands, he might have gotten knifed.

Why does the headline read “Edwards Supporters,” rather than “Paul Supporters” or “Romney supporters”?
Seems to me it was a singular Edwards supporter.
Are we sewing the seeds of discontent amongst the Democrats for a reason?

I really am disappointed that a JRE supporter would conduct themselves so boorishly. I also take issue with this being a ‘campaign story’, it’s not the candidate that did this.
Although she’s not my choice for the nom, if I had the chance, I’d be honored to shake her hand, she’s a former first lady and sitting Senator.

Nothing beats watching republican failures avoid the laughable loser that took their votes and turned into the most worthless lunatic PRECEDENT this country ever let loose on the world. My republican friends got pursed lips and furtive glances and that will satisfy me forever and ever AMEN.

I’m a registered Republican and I plan to support Obama. I have supported McCain until now and I’m not sure I can explain why I am changing. But part of the reason has to do with wanting to rise above partisan politics like I used to do when I was young (I am 55 now and supported John Andersen in 1980 when he ran as an Independent against Reagan and Carter. Then I voted Democrat. I did not switch to the Rep Party until mid-way through the first Clinton administration and then only after spending a year in Santa Cruz CA where I saw first-hand how far Democratic social programs could run amuck.) Obama’s idealism inspires me to look at his candidacy without political bias. Another reason I want to support him is that I share his desire to end the war. I initially supported Bush’s decision to invade Iraq and still beleive he did so honestly beleiving that there were WMDs to be found. But now it’s time to bring our troops home, and Obama will do it. I don’t care if gas goes to $20 a gallon (and I live in California). I don’t share Obama’s views on health care reform but I trust Congress will weigh in; perhaps a compromise can be reached that retains the good aspects of our system while making health insurance affordable and available for everyone. I also think electing an African-American President would be enormously healing for the nation. I have not felt so hopeful about ANY candidate on any issue in a long time.

People need to grow up! Obviously this person has no class. Shake the ladys hand for goodness sake! It’s not like your saying you’ll vote for her. It’s called manners and respect moron.

in the begining i liked Edwards but have moved away from him long ago, to me he is like a snake with a split tongue.
Obama is in no way a healing force for America, he is pure racious, yes he can talk but he cant walk the walk, to refer to the people of the U.S.A. as we Black Afro Americans is not we the people and the good ole U.S.A will never be we the black but of every kind or race making up a great world. He is right about one thing, something is happening in America but he has no clue as to what it is.
As for the Clintons, read up on her accomplisments of her life, surely she is more qualified for president. She has more to offer as president than both Edwards and Obama not to exclude the fact that history will be set behind her in a way that no other country will ever repeate. She will put a cap and an end on womens sufferage that started in 1943, it will make all women equal to every man. The fact that she will be the first women as president which every man knew was coming and must face someday as it is. need i go on futher to wake people up to the real side of life. we may also recall that we have congress and the house that has to approve anything that will be passed for the people and not just one person. At least Hillory has the ability to reach across to both parties and u dont see that with the other two people running for office. Face the facts, Obama and Edwards are like a couple of hot cakes, they flip flop to much for me.

Please help send this absolutely to the top of the Party leadership as a direct criticism of what is going on in the Democratic Party candidate selection process. The party leadership is not getting the message. We need a strong ticket to put forward in November not simply a hope cast into the wind that enough of the idealistic and disillusioned youth vote (read under age 30-35) in both parties will rally around Obama. I don’t see it happening. I think the candidate selection process ought to go to the Convention floor. The best ticket would have both Obama and Hillary on it but with Obama as the V-P candidate. The reason is that as soon as Obama is named the Democratic Presidential candidate, the polls will begin to shift. Within two months of Obama’s selection, McCain will reclaim the Republicans who might have been on the fence due to the abysmal performance by the Bush Administration. McCain will slowly and subtley convince more and more average Americans that he will make a notable improvement in Bush’s record. And no doubt that will be true. Central tendancy alone will mean anyone, even a Republican, will be an improvement. With Obama as the masthead, the Democratic Party will have squandered the best hope we have had for ending what at times has seemed the never ending tyranny of a failure of the White House to listen to the American People. Yes, squandered. Defeat snatched out of the jaws of victory. And now the Democratic Party leadership is suffering from the same error. That is, none of you is listening to your own Party faithful. Millions are repeatedly saying that Hillary will win the popular vote but Obama will will the candidacy. Something is terribly wrong with that dicotomy. I believe Obama will make an excellent President after Hillary’s two terms are over. But if he is the candidate this year, neither Hillary nor Obama will have the opportunity to be President. I have personally been broken hearted at what Bush and his puppet-masters have done to the country over the last eight years. And I have been waiting for the day when the Democratic Party would put an unassailable ticket forward to crush the political carelessness of the Republican Party. But now I feel like all those hopes are for naught. I am from California and although we may well be able to deliver all of our electoral votes on the Democratic side, I fear most of the rest of the country will be sadly split with McCain holding serve with enough votes to keep a Democrat out of the White House and to put all the gains in Congress over the last few years in jeopardy. Why aren’t the Democratic Party leaders listening?! It has nothing to do with not wanting a Black man in the White House. It has everything to do with wanting a Democrat in the White House for the next 16 years at least. Stop this idealistic love fest where the close calls are generously falling in Obama’s lap and think about the kind of tough candidate we will need to defeat McCain in November. Get real! Am I clear? I can tell you, if Obama is our candidate, I will 100 percent vote for him. But my vote and California’s combined Democratic vote will not be enough. California is very likely to support whomever the Democratic candidate is. So, personally my vote will not matter much in California. Instead, I would much prefer to send my Democratic vote to a state on the fence to give us a better electoral margin. As my grandson would say, there is something Wack about what’s going on and someone needs to start paying attention. Bring on the floor vote and see what the delegates are really thinking and feeling in their heart of hearts. Do not disappoint us once again. Do the right thing!
Sincerely,
Bill Kirk, Major, USAF (Retired)