Reply #13: Your hyperbole aside, please take a look in the archives. Some of the president's...

[Tarheel_Dem]

most ardent supporters, and his fiercest critics agreed that there wasn't much daylight between he & Hillary. You, like many others of late, like to engage in a little revisionist history. I was an Edwards supporter who moved to Obama when it was obvious Edwards couldn't break through (thank God/Goddess).

Many Edwards supporters, supported him because he was the Anti Obama/Hillary. It was clear to everyone but Kooch, whom I wouldn't even support for dogcatcher, that he was never going to get out of single digits. So the choice was always between two moderates. This country is never going to accept anyone to the left of President Obama, who is a pragmatic progressive, and you can blame "centrists", the media, the GOP, or whomever, but if you can't even convince the Democratic Party that we should nominate a Kooch style leftist, there's no chance in hell you'll convince the broader electorate. If a candidate can't appeal to "the middle", then he's just running for the sake of his/her own vanity, or he's being paid to be a spoiler. That's just fact. :hi: