Reply #44: I think that's an unfair charge [View All]

[jackson_dem]

Only Feingold has criticized him. Ted Kennedy praised him. Bill Bradley apparently preferred him but thought he was unviable after he lost Iowa. I don't think it is fair to say the people who know him consider him to be a fraud. Feingold is one, and there is strong reason to believe he was just carrying Obama's water. Kerry dislikes Edwards too but that is personal and happened long before Edwards' alleged conversion.

We don't know Elizabeth's condition. I would not hold it against him if he doesn't go all-out for Obama. I doubt he will. I think he will do some events for him, as opposed to one press conference and then disappearing, but he won't go all-out. How many precedents are there for that? A losing presidential candidate morphing into a surrogate for another during the primaries? Giuliani is the only example of this that I can think of. I would find it very demeaning to do that in the primaries.