joe biden

Let me tell you about the speech that floored me.

My plan is - and it may not be the surest way to win - but my plan is to campaign in a lot of red states ... I may not be able to win a general election in South Carolina here and maybe no Democrat can, it's a tough road right now as you rebuild this party. But guess what - if we only get 30 percent of the vote, you can't govern. I gotta be able to get 45 47 48 49 percent of the vote in this state as the Democratic nominee so that you can begin to rebuild the Democratic Party. You gotta be able to do that in Nebraska. You gotta be able to do that in Kansas. You gotta be able to do that across the country. - Senator Joe Biden

I couldn't have said it better. Here's my video of that speech (sorry, it's long):

According to this Washington Post story, the trial lawyers are abandoning John Edwards for...dum-Dum-DU-U-U-U-U-M, Joe Biden!!! Oh, my.

In the last presidential election, John Edwards had the powerful support and deep pockets of the nation's trial lawyers behind him. But when the lawyers gather for their winter conference today in Miami Beach, it will be Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) delivering the meeting's keynote speech.

Edwards, a trial lawyer who became a senator and now a presidential candidate, will be there, too. But the North Carolina Democrat no longer has a lock on the backing of the lawyers. This time around he will be battling it out with others in the Democratic field, who are seen as sympathetic to plaintiffs and their attorneys.

"John is certainly respected by every trial lawyer in the country," said Joseph W. Cotchett, a lawyer from the San Francisco area who helped raise more than $33,000 for Edwards in the 2004 cycle. "Many people though are looking at the bigger picture here."