John Edwards keeps being asked if he'll back Hillary Clinton if, as does not seem impossible, she is the Democratic Presidential Nominee. He keeps avoiding direct answers saying (at most), things like "I fully expect to support the Democratic nominee, and I fully expect to be the Democratic nominee."
Okay, fine. We all understand you're running against the lady and don't want to say, "Of course, she'd be a great president." But John, you're really running against all the things Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney and most of the guys on that side of the ballot want to do, which is continue a lot of the "disastrous" (your adjective) policies of George W. Bush while making it seem like there's a new attitude in the White House. If you really believe that any of those policies and G.O.P. objectives would be as bad as you say, then Hillary by even the worst measure would be preferable. By not saying strongly you'd support her, you're trivializing your own criticisms of all the things Republicans stand for and you say you don't.
I'm not wild about Hillary Clinton in the White House. Or Edwards or Barack Obama. Once upon a time, I might even have favored Giuliani or McCain over a couple of those folks. But now with Rudy and John M. pandering to the ultra-right and pledging to out-tough (but apparently not out-think) Bush on Iran, I don't see any possible Democratic/Republican match-ups that would leave me a choice but to vote for the Democrat. Does Edwards? If he does, I wish he'd cue me in. If not, he shouldn't make it sound like he'd throw his support that way only because he had to.