(Correction: Blogger’s note, 8:40 p.m., Jan. 3. 2008—The email I write about below DOES NOT come from the Edwards for President campaign but from a supporter who blogs and emails often about the Edwards campaign.  I apologize to the Edwards campaign for my misinterpretation and to you our readers.  I am leaving the original post up with this correction and clarification.  SD Watch strives to be accurate and regrets the error.)

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I support Sen. John Edwards for President.  I have met John and my wife Donna and I found him to be a charming, intelligent, and down to earth person.  His views about corporate America, the Middle Class, the Iraq War, and health care resonate with me.  I think he will make a great President.

However, his staff has sent out an email that I think is at best, in bad taste, and at worst, a lame attack on the late Admiral James Stockdale, one of the nation’s most decorated Naval officers, a Medal of Honor winner, and Vietnam War POW from 1965 to 1973, in an attempt to get at Barack Obama.

Stockdale was also Ross Perot’s vice presidential candidate in the 1992 election.

Here’s the email I received today from Michael Conrad on the Edwards campaign:

The Audacity of… James Stockdale? 

 

It’s pretty clear that the Obama backers are going to use this tonight to argue that he is best positioned to beat the Republicans.

 

After a year of general election polling, when all you have is 1 or 2 freaking Zogby polls to make your case, it actually shows your weakness, rather than your strength.

 

John Edwards, on the other hand, has more evidence backing up his claim to be the most electable Democrat than anyone knows what to do with.

 

I actually think Senator Clinton best described Senator Obama (she just used the phrase in the wrong context) when she said that he was “naive, and frankly irresponsible”.

 

Do we really want to waste a one in a lifetime chance for a massive political realignment on a guy who, just this morning on CNN,sounded like Admiral James Stockdale (Ross Perot’s running mate in 92’) with his constant use of “Gridlock! The government is in gridlock!”? 

 

Sure Barack, it’s not the obstructionist GOPers who fight everything that the country needs, it’s that damn partisan gridlock.  I know it’s probably hard for the Obama campaign to admit that all of the money they spent on poll-testing every word he’s said was a waste, butI don’t know many people who are buying into this.

 

I hope Obama has his second Stockdale moment any time now, and asks himself the question that really needs to be answered, “Who am I? And why I am here?”

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