The Clusterf--kers: John Edwards

The cluster is shrinking.

John Edwards became the voice of civility in a Democratic campaign dominated by two bickering children. There is of course no place for civility in modern American life, much less the bloodsport (as Hunter Thompson called it) of politics. Edwards was perhaps a little too laid back in his campaign style and now, not having won a single primary, he is dropping out of the race.

I'm sorry to see him go. I don't know that I would have voted for him but he certainly looked like the only adult onstage last week at the Democratic debate in South Carolina. (After viewing that debate, with it's juvenile, petty bickering, I thought a lot less of Obama, and I liked Obama a lot. I never thought much of Sen. Clinton.) Presidential races, all political races really, need more voices, more differing opinions, more candidates, not fewer.