Remember that story yesterday which suggested that high level Edwards staffers knew about his affair and would sabotage the campaign if it looked like he was winning.
Well, via Twitter, former campaign manager Joe Trippi had this to say…
Complete BS — fantasyland – not true.
Here’s the thing…I want to believe Trippi, but what else would you [...]

This is the stuff I love to hear because it means that one person’s bad decisions couldn’t bring down an entire movement.
From ABC:
I’ve talked to a lot of former Edwards staffers about this. Up until December of 2007, most on Edwards’ staff didn’t believe rumors about the affair.
But by late December, early January of [...]

Did you ever think he’d really go away?
Apparently he’ll be speaking at Indiana University about the results of the election.
My question: why?
I mean, does anybody really care what John Edwards’ thinks about the Democrats winning? Especially Democrats? All he’s doing is giving the right wing more cannon fodder.
One bit of good news from the [...]

You can find them here.
I’m not going to have time to wade through all of them, but Ambinder has taken a look and shares some of what’s contained within this treasure trove…
** The battle for strategic supremacy and chaos in the campaign
** Mark Penn and the rest of the staff debating gender, politics, Obama’s significance, [...]

Hillary Clinton’s former communication director, Howard Wolfson, is claiming that the media’s failure to uncover/disclose John Edwards’ affair cost Clinton the nomination. In Wolfson’s thinking, if Edwards had dropped out before Iowa, Clinton would have won that state and then cruised to the nomination.
Man, those Clinton supporters are bitter, aren’t they? Obama put up a [...]

When it rains, it pours…
Edwards had cast himself in his political career as an exemplar of a moral life and a good marriage, and he was a harsh critic of former President Bill Clinton for his Oval Office affair.
“I think this president has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of [...]

As the title states, he’s claiming it happened in 2006, so one could argue it wasn’t as sleazy since it wasn’t during the campaign season or while Elizabeth had cancer. Still, why was this woman hired to work on his primary campaign?
In any event, I think it’s curtains for his political career.
In 2006, I made [...]

I don’t even want to think about what this would mean if he had been the candidate.
From ABC:
In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.
Edwards also denied he was the [...]

A criminal complaint has been filed by the Enquirer and so there’s a very good chance that Edwards will be contacted about the following incident…
The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards — whom he did not immediately recognize — in a hotel men’s room early Tuesday morning in a [...]

It’s all about Florida and Michigan for her, and MSNBC has the details about how she’s using this narrative to spin, spin, spin…
“There were some folks who didn’t want Kentucky to vote,” she said. “There are some folks, you can see them on TV every night, who wanted it to be over for me after [...]

I think that was basically assumed, but the media definitely used his endorsement to suggest he could be in the running.
Today, on TODAY, he puts those rumors to rest…

But Attorney General?
Well, that’s another story…

I talked about one of Edwards’ switchers earlier, and now 6 out of the 8 from South Carolina and 1 from Iowa have announced they’re backing Obama.
They are…

Daniel Boan, South Carolina
Christine Brennan-Bond, South Carolina
Robert Groce, South Carolina
Susan Smith, South Carolina
Mike Evatt, South Carolina
Lauren Bilton, South Carolina
Machelle Crum, Iowa

This has the net effect of him winning [...]

I missed this earlier…
PORTSMOUTH, N.H.—A New Hampshire Democratic Party delegate who had supported John Edwards says he will support Barack Obama, now that Edwards has endorsed his former political rival for the party’s presidential nominee.
Joshua Denton of Portsmouth, 26, an Iraq war veteran, says he thinks that both Obama and Hillary Clinton would be a [...]

Here’s a clip.

Hopefully we’ll have the whole endorsement later.

I called this a couple days ago after a very strong hint by the former North Carolina senator.
From ABC:
ABC News’ Kate Snow, Raelyn Johnson, Sunlen Miller, and Rick Klein Report: Former Sen. John Edwards is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy Wednesday evening, in a dramatic attempt by the Obama campaign to answer concerns regarding [...]

It’s at about :30 seconds in. Edwards was asked if he’ll be able to endorse the person he voted for in North Carolina. Edwards said, with a big grin on this face, “I’d say highly likely, yes.”

I think that’s pretty obvious.

Just in case you missed it. No big revelations here, but he does talk about how Hillary has a big math problem.

Of note, this is the first I’ve heard of HalfInTen.org, a new organization Edwards is backing with the goal of cutting the poverty rate in half in ten years. Definitely a noble goal.

Remember, John and Elizabeth Edwards won’t endorse, but most of the Edwards crew has gotten behind Obama in a big way so it has the net effect of being endorsed by Edwards
And now he’s snagged possibly the biggest one of all. Well, except for Joe Trippi.
From ABC:
Bonior, a former Michigan congressman, was once the [...]

It’s official. They like and dislike things about both candidates, so they can’t decide.
First Elizabeth…
“I like Hillary’s health care plan.”
What doesn’t she like [...]? “The lobbyist money,” she adds.
On Obama [...]: “The fact that he has motivated so many young people to be involved, I think is fantastic.”
But, she adds: “I don’t [...]

No doubt this will do a lot to solidify a win for Obama in North Carolina.
From NY Times:
[...] nearly 50 of his most prominent backers lined up behind Senator Barack Obama today, in a gesture designed to give Mr. Obama a heavy boost of support less than two weeks before the North Carolina primary on [...]