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Barack Obama has set the table for the rest of his campaign by going ahead and playing the race card before the feared GOP attack machine gets revved up.

Obama's preemptive race card

Barack Obama has set the table for the rest of his campaign by going ahead and playing the race card before the feared GOP attack machine gets revved up.

So the latest line out of the Clinton camp is that Hillary Clinton has a better chance at winning in the general election because she’s winning all the “big” states’ primari

It must be exhausting to spend every waking hour looking for the underlying racism that exists in every photo taken, word spoken and action made. What an all-consuming (and ridiculous) way to spend your time! “Racism spotting” is exactly the career path chosen by Orlando Patterson, a professor of Sociology (of course) at Harvard.

Sound bites, that is. It is mathematically impossible for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to win the nomination by a large enough margin to make the super delegates superfluous. So now they are, as people like Mack have pointed out, is starting to provide sound bites (and mud piles ready for slinging) that the McCain campaign can use to bite the rear of the eventual survivor. They have lost sight of the

John stepped aside with leadership, grace, and conviction on his side:
 

I began my presidential campaign here to remind the country that we, as citizens and as a government, have a moral responsibility to each other, and what we do together matters. We must do better, if we want to live up to the great promise of this country that we all love so much.

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John Edwards in New Orleans

Following is the transcript of John Edwards's announcement to suspend his campaign, as provided by CQ Transcriptions.

Edwards Is Dropping Out of Race for Nomination (January 30, 2008)

Thank you all very much. We're very proud to be back here.

John Edwards has withdrawn from the Presidential primary.

FULL TEXT OF JOHN EDWARDS ADDRESS IN NEW ORLEANS
Thank you all very much. We're very proud to be back here.
During the spring of 2006, I had the extraordinary experience of bringing 700 college kids here to New Orleans to work. These are kids who gave up their spring break to come to New Orleans to work, to rehabilitate houses, because of their commitment as Americans, because they believed in w