International House of Horrors: The Oracle of Seneca speaks...

Seneca, South Carolina (US) I mean. And by that I'm referring to John Edwards, who finally threw his endorsement to Barack Obama as the Democratic Party candidate in the upcoming US presidential elections.

When you think about it, our John was a man who held his own counsel about who to back. Like the Oracle of Delphi, eyes closed in a seeming trance ignoring supplicants until ready to speak. After all, what was at stake was being chosen as a running mate to the winner of this bloody battle for supremacy between the good Senators.

No sense in speaking before the die seems cast, right?

Thus, the endorsement of Senator Obama by John Edwards is easily seen as an indication of the state of Senator Clinton's hopes for Democratic presidential candidacy.

And given how her ill-spoken observation "how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me" is foolhardy considering that Edwards counts the same constituency; putting into my head that an Obama-Edwards ticket could be a winner for the Democrats.

Who knew that Mrs Clinton has oracular talent as well.

- Farmer Ted