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Only Now the Truth Can be Told…John John Didn’t Get Along

So, today… Just today… we find out that Edwards and Kerry never really got along during their campaign in ’04. And this from the New York Times [1], no less:

To the end of their disappointing run, the two men were unable to agree on the script, whether for slogans or more substantive matters. And like so many political marriages, the one between Mr. Kerry and Mr. Edwards — Senate colleagues who became rivals then running mates but never really friends — ended in recrimination and regrets.

The best Democrats America has to offer [2]Kerry aides complain that Mr. Edwards never stopped running for president — a Democratic Party [3] official recalled some aides wearing “Edwards for President” pins at a fund-raiser long after they were working for the Kerry-Edwards ticket. Kerry supporters say Mr. Edwards refused to play the traditional vice-presidential role of attack dog even going up against a purebred, Dick Cheney [4]. And Mr. Kerry had barely conceded the race, they say, before Mr. Edwards was aiming for 2008 and embarking on what one campaign aide called the “it wasn’t my fault tour” around his home state to distance himself from the loss.

And so, the obvious question erupts: How is it we’re just now finding out about this friction? Why would the vaunted, and suppsoedly unbiased press, not have advised the country at the time, of this division between the two men, when they had access to the both of them during that whole process, and must ahve known tha things were not altogether on the up and up?

And don’t tell me the Mainstream Media’s running blocker on this stuff. I mean, it isn’t that the fair and unbiased MSM is protecting the good-guy image of Democrats… is it?

Couldn’t be.

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