Elizabeth Edwards: Not backing Hillary

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Elizabeth Edwards: Not backing Hillary
By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 5/18/08 5:54 PM EST



Elizabeth Edwards on Sunday rejected speculation that she might endorse New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“If you listened to what I said and not to what pundits said I was thinking, you would know that I was never inclined to endorse,” Edwards wrote in an e-mail to Politico Sunday afternoon.

Speculation about whether she might back Clinton spiked when Edwards did not appear Wednesday with her husband, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, during his endorsement of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who is winning the support of an increasing number of party leaders and superdelegates as he appears poised to edge out Clinton for the nomination.

Elizabeth Edwards told Politico that she was “as usual, a sounding board for my husband, but, also as usual, his decision was ultimately his own, which is as it should be. I never encouraged him to support a particular candidate, only to follow his heart.”

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10434.html

[Lerkfish]

1. I sincerely hope they're a lot more gentle when they chuck her under the bus

she's been through a lot and doesn't deserve to be called a "judas" by Carville or some other surrogate.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Hear, hear.

Elizabeth does not deserve the slings and arrows from the usual slingers and arrowers. She has been wonderful to us here at DU and an inspiration at large. If she wants to stay above the pettiness, it is a luxury she has earned, the very hard way.

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3. also, Elizabeth Edwards: Not backing Barack

I know that yours is the headline at Politico. My alternative one would have been equally valid. Elizabeth has been very careful on both sides on what she has said. The spin all around is amazing.

BTW some of the posts over at politico.com are/were were really tasteless and revolting.