John Edwards Making All The Mistakes on his Campaign Trail

Normally, when candidates set foot on the campaign trail, they do so clearly sure that all they say will be analysed and eventually used to gauge them at the polls. They are aware that any language glitches or unpopular comments may actually degenerate the tally of their targeted votes. Yet, on the podium, with deafening cheers from thousands of their supporters, or even when facing a band of news-thirsty journalists, some candidates get driven by the enthusiasm of the moment and puke out things they otherwise wouldn't. And this can cost one a lot of votes, or worse ... the Presidency. Howard Dean learned this through the hard way when, in a cloud of anger, he unleashed the now infamous scream. John Kerry knew this campaign trail rule, yet in a zeal to show how accomplished he was and induce some dose of vocabulary in his speech, he often always made statements that made him immediately retract them, eventually gaining the nick name flip-flopper..a.k.a Swift Boat Kerry. Now John Edwards, who one could think learned from the hotly contested last Presidential elections, is now beginning to lose the campaign. In refusing to fire two controversial staff workers, John Edwards has won himself a formidable foe...and this will sure come to haunt him, not sooner..but later when it really matters. And today he called on Congress to cap funding for US troops already in Iraq. He forgets that our troops in Iraq need those funds to not only fight the enemy, but sustain their daily lives. He even doesn't seem to understand that when he voted for the resolution granting the President to wage war, he did so anticipating the US to win the war...and winning the war requires the funds he's now incessantly asking to be cut. He ought to understand that our troops are winning the war on terror which encompasses the war in Iraq, and he shouldn't let them down with statements that he makes to later brand them mistakes. Such mistakes clearly don't have a place in our society for their repercussions may be astonishing to even fathom.