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Did John Edwards Tip His Hand?

By Denise Williams
May 9th 2008 12:45PM

Filed Under:eEndorsements, John Edwards, 2008 President

Former presidential candidate John Edwards made an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" this morning. Since Edwards has left the race, the hot topic for any interview with him has been who he is going to endorse - if he endorses at all. Today was no exception. Host Mika Brzezinski questioned Edwards rather aggressively (sans Joe this morning) on the matter. While watching this live this and on the first pass, I thought he was still being annoying coy about the whole thing - praising the candidates equally - but noting that Sen. Cinton needs to be careful not to further split the party. My esteemed colleague Tommy Christopher comments on her recent divisive remarks here.


Edwards appearance on NBC's Today show this morning, however, showed the NC Senator singling out Obama for some praise. As Reuters reports:


"What he brings to the table is the capacity, number one, to unite the Democratic Party," Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, told NBC's "Today" show.


"Number two, to bring in new voters, to bring in people who haven't been involved in the process over a long time and to get people excited about this change."


You'll recall that he chose not to speak before his home state's primary in North Carolina. In my opinion, the time for him to endorse has come and gone and probably won't make any substantive difference in the outcome at this point. Most of his supporterss have made up their minds. Many of Edwards' more prominent supporters have already announced for Obama.


So after watching this video and reading Time's Mark Halperin and Politico's Ben Smith weigh in, I think John may have inadvertantly given himself away. Listem carefully to the part where he says "...I just voted for 'him' on Tuesday...". I think he said "him". Others think he said "'em". What do you think? It's about 2:17 into the video.


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