Ladies and Gentlemen: President Edwards!

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http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn02052004.html

Suddenly the field of battle is littered with the dead and the dying.

Senator Joe Lieberman had pinned his hopes on Delaware, the state of ten thousand corporations whose motto, "nihil a me alienum puto", translates as "We don't care if they make Zyklon B, so long as they file their articles of incorporation in Wilmington." Lieberman barely broke 10 per cent and finally quit.

Dennis Kucinich had seen light in New Mexico, where his presidential ambitions flowered under the aegis of the New Age goddesses, but fell to earth with a meager 5 per cent. We cannot officially bury his campaign because a sepulchral silence has fallen over Camp Kucinich, but it surely cannot be long before his campaign gets carried out in a box.

Each time we offer some deprecating comments on Kucinich our counterpunch mail box overflows with furious abuse of the "Kucitizens," as they term themselves. Now, don't get us wrong. We like Dennis Kucinich, and have known him for over quarter of a century. We admire him greatly. But he has run a pathetic and inept campaign. He turned his back on his working class roots and allied himself with a band of rich New ASgers, who have a lot of money and a lot of advice (mostly misguided) but know nothing about organizing or getting people to vote. Kucinich failed miserably in a state he should have done well in...Iowa, which has a strong peace movement that has always given establishment Democrats problems. He made a stupid alliance with John Edwards, which seriously undermined his credibility. He performed even worse in New Hampshire, which has in the past been kind to quirky candidates...see Tsongas.

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