He wants more time to spend on his hair.

I'm heartbroke. Such a tragic waste of humanity

what took him so long. damn is he stupid.

Bye bye, Mr. Pony.

NO! Don't go john, you are such an easy target to make fun of for us.

Good riddance!

Now we have a solid, relentless year to obsess over Hillary and Obama.

Ughhhhhhhhhhh......

Watching Rush on the dittocam, he has Rush '08 signs in the background and is making his concession speech. LOL

Why would Florida have been the make-or-break for Edwards?
It didn't even count and he didn't campaign there (only Hillary did.)
Was it something Obama offered him?
AG perhaps?

He also may or may not have fathered a child out of wedlock... Silky, we'll miss you like a period.

Seriously, he was still in the race? Really?

Ah, there's more money in suing insurance companies, anyway.

He had to run, once he heard this.

This is a sad day for the sons of mill workers.

re: #14 Ringo the Gringo

This is a sad day for the sons of mill workers.

Tsk, tsk, who will represent the eight year olds enslaved in the sweat shops?

Oh wait, wrong century!

Yawn.

I wish I had a grenade for Pickler to dive on.

re: #2 Birkenstock Cowboy

I'm heartbroke. Such a tragic waste of humanity skin

Fixed.

re: #5 newsjunkie_ky

NO! Don't go john, you are such an easy target to make fun of for us.

Well we still have RonPaul!

Go back to your cancer stricken wife, Clinton and Obama are just better at manipulating and using the poor.

re: #12 buzzsawmonkey

To whom will he Pony up his delegates?

Best guess- he'll play dodgeball on that one. There's a very good chance that neither Obama or Shrillary will have a clear edge in delegate count going into the convention, meaning a probable failure to nominate on the first ballot. At which point Silky offers his delegates up as the tie-breaker to whoever agrees to make him their running mate.

I'm looking for the 2008 Democratic Convention to be a replay of the 1968 edition, in more ways than one. God help whatever city is hosting it.

cheers

eon

#20 That's ugly.

Being totally honest.

He needs to go to his home.

He has young children, and no matter what my opinions are about him, his children are going to dealt a very heavy burden that is not of their own making.

It is time for him to depart political motivation, and go back to being a dad for the time being.

For goodness sakes is this "reporter" giving this guy some action? She sounds like he took a bullet for the team or something - he is dropping out of a losing race - jeez louise!

VERY, VERY SHODDY JOURNALISM.

To describe someone's politics as "progressive" means we think they benefit & advance mankind.

Many people would see Edward's brand of Champagne Socialism as retrogressive - a watered down echo from the days of the cold war. They might think we should know better these days.

Regarding Edward's ideals progressive or retrogressive, really depends on one's political opinion. That's fine in an opinion piece....but this WASN'T as opinion piece.

When Nedra Pickler labels Edward's ideals as "progressive" in what is supposed to be straight reportage, she is simply dressing up her political opinion as some kind of empirical fact.

shame on her

When will Ron Paul bail?

That Stormfront money won't last forever!

Glad to see the AP is maintaining it's high standards of impartiality.

/sarcasm

"ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship...."
Yup, sure is good to know that AP's standards of "journalism" haven't changed any - they still don't have any.

I feel bad for his children, and his wife with cancer - but the man has created social and financial chaos by suing the innocent and driving real doctors out of business and away from private practice in rural communities. How many babies have died because the mother had to drive 60-80 miles to see a doctor?

John Edwards is a menace to a functional fair society.

re: #26 uptight

When will Ron Paul bail?

That Stormfront money won't last forever!

But he's a penny pincher remember?

Awwww. Too bad.

He should have dropped out when his wife got ill- it would have been understandable and placed him in a much more sympathetic light in the future. Staying in the race made him look like an ambitious jerk, imo.

I can't believe this comment has been made yet...

what took him so long. damn is he stupid.

Sobbing hysterically with a towel over my head: "LEAVE JOHN EDWARDS ALONE!"

/sarc off..

Whew, that was fun!

I wonder which candidate (Hillary or Obama) will get the paulbot vote when he quits?

What the term Silky Pony references. I think it was Laura Ingraham who first named John Edwards Silky Pony.

And the barbers wept.

The biggest phony of them all finally dropped out of the race. Then again, he was never really in it.

Good riddance.

Hey, did y'all know he was the son of a mill worker? It's true, his pappy worked in a mill.

"ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters’ sympathies"

Wow, is that fair and balanced or what?! How about:

"ending a losing bid in which he side-tracked his rivals with socialist pandering while playing off family hardships that embarrassed thinking voters."

Probably nobody is more grateful than Edwards himself. Now he will not have to wear that artificial goofy grin 24/7.

AP must have been at least a little embarrassed by the article, because it looks as if it has been completely re-written. Or maybe they were not embarrassed, but since he held his press conference, they were able to fill the article with quotes and reactions from others.

I wonder if anyone has the original Edwards' campaign press release. I mean AP article.

Edwards was quoted as saying, "Thank heavens I can stop pretending to care about those stupid unemployed hicks who wind up on my juries."

Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid a typical slimy lawyer campaign in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while his law firm after minor auto accidents and pretending to grapple with family hardship that roused voters’ sympathies surprisingly didn't fool nearly enough nimrods, the Associated Press has learned. He did, however, not muss his hair during the whole affair. Does it get any worse than Edwards? Rhetorical question. Subliminal guy......Hillary.

That was so obsequious (sic), I bet it made even the chief editors at AP puke.

"It is time for me to step aside so that history can blaze its path," he said.

Gee; how did history ever blaze it's path without him?! History will probably blaze better without him.

Boohoo, another slip and fall trial lawyer with no experience running a serious business is gone.