You're a good man, John Edwards ...

... but the Obama-Clinton star power was too much to overcome. My friend Andrew was an Edwards guy from early on, while I was already caught up in the Obama mystique. Back then I wasn't sure if Obama was another Howard Dean, who swept me off my voting shoes a few years ago before his famous yell-a-bunch-of-states speech and reality kicked in.

I like John Edwards. I liked him better than John Kerry in 2004. I like also how he has at times defended Obama against silly or simply incorrect attacks from the Clinton camp. But there was no room for him at the dinner table. It's hard to imagine him running as a veep candidate AGAIN, but I guess it's possible. If not that, then what? Secretary of something? Hold out for another run in a few years (he's still young). Hard to say. But getting back to this year's race, the question is this: who will he endorse? Probably Obama?

Obama now has Teddy Kennedy in his camp. The biggest potential endorsement I can imagine though ... Al Gore. Unless Al is planning to swoop in at a deadlocked convention and emerge as the nominee ... hey not a bad idea. That's why he's laying low. He's on the treadmill at an undisclosed location, getting down to presidential weight, brushing up his position papers on his brand new super-thin Mac and ordering opposition research on this up-and-coming John McCain fellow.

That's it! Gore for President. I knew his time would come. I guess that pushes Edwards out of the veep game. Which means ... Gore-Obama 08.

Imagine.

(Oh yeah ... Edwards-drops-out article is here).