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Edwards Endorsed..... "him"?
Not that this means much and honestly he should just step up and say it out loud but....
This morning on Morning Joe, John Edwards said that he will at some point endorse the person that he just voted for in the NC primary. When pressed on this, he said something to the effect of: "I just voted for him on Tuesday"! He also said that the person that he voted for, he believes will be the nominee.
Interestingly, they also said that John & his wife split on their primary votes as well.
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Comments (13)
Not to nitpick, but Edwards voted for "him". He will endorse him (at some point) as well, but has not yet.
On a really far off tangent, this is a problem with the Indo-European languages—an inability to refer to a person with a gender-neutral pronoun. From now on, I recommend that Edwards give all interviews exclusively in Mandarin to avoid any future inadvertent slips.
May 9, 2008 9:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, considering what Carville has revealed about Hillary, Edwards could have been referring to either of them.
May 9, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Please don't make me think of that, it's not a pretty picture!
May 9, 2008 9:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great point. You really have to speak in a cryptic and unnatural way to avoid saying gender specific words in English. But as a formal high end trial lawyer, you would think that cryptic and unnatural are 2nd nature to him.
May 9, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
There's also the neutral (but non-standard) them as a singular, especially common in informal spoken English, even among well-educated people (at least the ones around me). It's often contracted to 'em, which sounds a lot like him.
Is it possible Edwards said "I just voted for 'em on Tuesday!"?
May 9, 2008 10:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
That is certainly possible. I'm from south eastern Virginia and with large Navy bases there so I've heard plenty of every type of American accent there is and I've hear plenty of " 'em " used by a good cross section of my community.
Not as much now that I live near DC but I still hear it too.
May 9, 2008 10:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Newport News?
May 9, 2008 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, this is a good point. Of course, given Theresa's past comments on Clinton vs. Obama and the statement that they split their vote…
May 9, 2008 11:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well then, WTF is Edwards waiting for? Is he going to give his endorsement the night before Nov 4?
Edwards has 18 pledged delegates that could help end this thing, possibly next week. I guess he has some sort of strategy he is working, but he's very very close to falling in the "who cares" category.
May 9, 2008 11:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thats Leadership for yah....
Terrible.
May 9, 2008 11:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
found the link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24538467#24538467
May 9, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it was "'em," not "him." But I also think the more carefully-phrased statement, "Barack Obama is doing just fine without my endorsement," is intentional. That sounds like the answer to the question, "why didn't you endorse Obama?" rather than, "why didn't you endorse?" (And he was asked the latter.)
May 9, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to the Chicagotribune.com
By David Jackson and Ray Long april 3, 2007
Obama knows his way around a ballot
The day afer New year's 1996, operatives for Barack Omama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. They kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals were forced off the ballot.
Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded access to the ballot box, Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate saying he wanted to empower disenfranchised citizens.
But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070403obama-ballot,1,57567.story
If you want to read the whole story, try the above website. If not, you might want to know that he had an unwritten agreement with Alice Palmer which he did not honor. There are many articles which you need to read. If you check out the history of his white grandparents and his mother you will question the statement he made "a mother who was at one time on foodstamps". You need to see the whole picture. Michelle information on her thesis that will not be released until right after the November Election(Nov. 5th).
May 9, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
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