Unfortunately, no more Edwards.

Unfortunately, yesterday John Edwards dropped out of the race to be the Democratic nomination to become the President this year. I supported John Edwards ever since the Democrats lost in 2004.

To me he was the most populist candidate running, his platform was for the poor and lower classes. He was the one who not only realized, but refused to ignore that this country is not perfect, and that all of it's citizens don't wipe their asses with silk. There are some people who cannot afford medical insurance, and the people who can afford it, are being choked to death by it. My family is one of those families. My parents are having to fork out about $250 every two weeks to cover our HMO. But, we have to have it. God forbid something happen to any of us while off on insurance. Edwards' campaign spoke to people like me and my family. Like everyday citizens of this country. Who live paycheck to paycheck. If we can go half-way around the world to "help uncivilized people", then why the hell can't Americans get help? I think we should fix our own problems before going elsewhere. I'd rather spend $1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) to have every American have health insurance, than to spend $1 trillion to get rid of a murderous dictator that we helped get into power in the first place.

Now, I honestly do not know who I want to be the Presidential candidate for the Democrats. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to vote for Obama or Clinton over a republican any day of the week. I don't care about something half way around the world when shit right in my own neighborhood is affecting me more. That's not to say that I don't believe in foreign policy, actually, I'm an advocate of it. Foreign Policy: Let's talk about the world, and come to agreements since it affects all of us. There's nothing in there about not talking to someone because we don't agree with them.

At least it looks like McCain is going to me the Presidential candidate for the Republicans. Well, that's not necessarily a good thing for Democrats, because he's probably more electable than Obama or Clinton. It's good in the sense that it's not another Bush running for President. This is someone who has actually fought in a war honorably. He was a POW for years, and he knows what it's like to be tortured, and he will do away with it. I think he's the most moderate and sensible republican in the race. He may not seem like it right now, but he's having to play to the right in order to get the radicals since it's only the primaries. Once he has to start pulling nationally against Democrats, he'll have to be more moderate to try and pull from them, and that's where his true views tend to lie. But that's about as far as I go with him. I'd still rather have Clinton or Obama.

Now, I'd love to see Edwards as a Vice President role again, but I don't know if that'll happen. Since Edwards didn't swing Kerry like he wanted to, they might be less inclined to do so. However, if it's Clinton, I'd love to see a Clinton/Clark ticket. That'd give her an extreme edge for security. Let's have a VP who graduated top of his class at West Point, and actually led a decently successful multi-national military campaign in Kosovo. Plus, he's an excellent debater, I've seen him several times on Real Time with Bill Maher. Before people started declaring their campaigns, I actually wanted to see a Edwards/Clark or Clark/Edwards ticket. That would've been excellent.

Anyways, that's my little rant for right now, and it sucks to not have a computer right now.