John Edwards knows this. Reading the tea leaves (or the entrails) of his Party, he has now cast his lot with Obama, thereby abandoning all pretense of being the champion of the little guy and the working poor. I’m sure for the multi-millionaire lawyer this comes as a relief, as it was all a charade anyway, and they knew it. Fittingly, his endorsement of Obama comes only after the Senator from Illinois has conclusively shown he has little support among the segment of Democrats that Edwards previously courted. Oh, and remember his Two Americas? If you want a perfect example of that notion, look at the split in the Democratic Party: well-to-do liberals and their college age brood vs. blue collar working class joes. Guess we now know where ol’ Johnboy’s loyalties truly lie. Fightin’ for the little guy only makes sense if it helps you get rich or get elected.

And so the Party of the People is about to veer left and completely disown its historic roots in favor of a junior Senator with no leadership experience who talks the talk, their talk. How did this happen? My pet theory is a couple of years ago the billionaires in the Democratic Party had a focus group session where everyone got high, pulled out their laptops and designed the perfect liberal candidate. The result was a biracial man, raised mostly outside of the mainland US by a strong willed single mom who had a PhD in Anthropology and worked in the third world. He was given a golden tongue, good looks and, critically (because he’s male) a non-confrontational demeanor. He was educated at all the “best” schools and had the most progressive advisors. As unions were either defunct or contaminated with plebian minded Democrats, he worked as a community organizer in an African-American neighborhood where he learned to speak the local patois. He married a woman of equal or better professional credentials and they had two daughters. He was introduced to the local political scene by a couple of sixty’s radicals. At this point in their collective hallucination, the focus group all rubbed real hard on an Evian water bottle and out popped a genie who conjured up Barack Obama. The money flowed like honey and the rest is history. I mean the rest of the Democratic Party is history.

Next time the Republicans are up.

Everytime I write ‘Dear Professor’, I feel like I’m a character in an Arthur Conan Doyle book.

I caught you at the ‘Corner’ at NRO today. You keep giving sound advice to Obama. They should send you a check.

Here I defend McCain and then he comes up with global warming. Two steps forward and one step back.

What gets me about the left is that they’re so vocal and adamant defending the few hundred or thousands in Abu Ghahrab and Gitmo and couldn’t care less about millions of decent people in Iraq. People like us. Kids like our kids.

vb. What’s your name? Vicky? Vincent? Vera? Victor? Van? Vaughn?

concerning iraq: at this point i almost prefer the media to remain silent ,and let the military get on with it. it wont be the first time the media got it wrong. my only fear is a burgeoning democrat legislature cutting the purse strings to a representative iraq.

it looks like mccain is already positioning himself to “deal” with the above mentioned overwhelming democrat congress. it appears that he wants to expose himself to weekly shout-fests with congress, a la great britian’s parliamentary tradition. good grief…