This could have been John Edwards’ convention. Don’t laugh. The switch of 135,000 votes in Ohio in 2004, and the country would be coming to the end of the second term of the Kerry-Edwards administration.
Vice President Edwards – too busy attending funerals of foreign leaders to be fooling around with a New York party girl – would have stepped from President John Kerry’s shadow and accept his party’s nomination. But now Edwards is the name that must not be mentioned at the Democratic convention in Charlotte. Rob Christensen's column here.
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Comments
I miss John
September 5, 2012 - 11:56am — inandohI just cannot understand how Bill Clinton is so popular after his tete a tete with Monica and yet John is not forgiven. Bill Clinton is a headliner at the convention and John is shunned. It does not seem fair.