Origami Election Headquarters ‘08 - Update!
Hello everyone,
Well the events of the past few days have done a number on the electorate. Super Tuesday is fast approaching and Vegas must be taking bets. Of course the big news is:
John Edwards has finally accepted his third place standing and dropped out of the race. He made the announcement at the same exploited venue he proclaimed his candidacy in January 2006, (What? A little early there don’t you think Johnny?) a neighbourhood of badly damaged homes in New Orleans.
The homes had been damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Edwards just used them for his own political gain (or in this case failure).
Edwards has not endorsed either of the two who whooped his butt ever so impressively and since there’s been no rumbling about accepting the number 2 slot, I guess he wanted it “all or nothing” this time around.
Playing second fiddle to a loser like John Kerry must be bad on the self esteem, I can’t imagine what it would do to his ego being the Robin to Obama’s Batman or the Vice-President of Hillary Clinton, first woman in the White House.
Senators Obama and Clinton of course made the obligatory “he’s a great guy” speech when they heard the good news. Obama talked about Edwards’ fight on poverty as if these two guys can or would do anything about the poor if they had gotten into the WH.
Clinton said that Edwards had “compassion and conviction,” and fought for Americans in need. Hundreds of thousands of homeless people could not comment, since they live on the streets and have no radios or televisions.
Though neither of them really care what Edwards’ pet cause is and pledging not to forget the fight on poverty is funny when the liberals could easily stamp out poverty if they rubbed a few cents together. In conclusion both celebrated the loss of another competitor with a touchdown dance.
It’s nice to see Edwards knows when to quit. On the other hand… 
Does anyone know who this is?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
This is Mike Gravel (D) former U.S. Senator from Alaska who is utterly clueless. The man has no wins, came in 5th, 7th and 8th in the primaries and seems to have not noticed that he doesn’t have a chance in winning.
Or Gravel could have forgotten that he’s vying for the nomination and went on vacation, or how about he did quit 3 weeks ago and the media obsessed with Hillary and Barack never noticed.
Dude, this is the communication age! You really should let people know what’s going on. Everyone else has dropped out, even Edwards and he was living in a reasonable pipe dream. Time to go Mikey.
Speaking of dropping out, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani hedged his bets on Florida and lost. Thus he has packed up his tents accordingly. He made his announcement at the Reagan Library where McCain and Romney were debating, Giuliani actually thought he was still in the race, remembered the results of Florida and then “announced” he was out.
Giuliani took the time to endorse McCain (he’s hoping for a staff job, VP) by stating: “This is a man who is prepared to be president,” as well as “I am very proud to endorse my friend and fellow Republican — a hero — John McClane, uh…I mean McCain.”
Giuliani is not the only one, Gov. Schwarzenegger is rumoured to be endorsing McCain as have already the 2 Republican senators from Georgia, CNN states that those two states will be important on Super Tuesday. If that is the case, then Mitt Romney may be in trouble.
Following the lead of the confused Mr. Gravel, Huckabee is still in this race despite having won very little since his Iowa upset. In Florida, Huckabee came in fourth behind Giuliani and Giuliani is the one who’s dropping out? Someone needs to pull the Huckster aside and let him know which way the wind is blowing!
I would recap, but I don’t fell like it. The race now is between 2 teams of 2. Survival of the fittest, the weak have perished. I’ll see you all on Super Wednesday.
I bid adieu,
your Origami reporter,
L.Manly
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