Edwards endorses Obama

Bills quarterback Trent Edwards told the New York Jets media this week that he plans to vote Barack Obama for President. Edwards' reasoning is he likes how Obama has handled himself during the campaign and believes Obama represents the kind of change that is needed in this country. You can read more on this story in Friday's Buffalo News.

---Allen Wilson

Comments

[Chris]

Well, in reading these comments is looks like 50% are intelligent and 50% are ignorant. It is quite obvious Trent is 25 years old and ignorant. Fits in with the 50% supporting the empty suit Obama. McCain is not a great alternative, but he's better than Obama.

God Bless the person who accurately pointed out the psycho liberals on MSNBC.

[jim in anchorage]

Whats this got to do with the bills

[Train Wreck]

Go McCain!

(I have a brain injury, so excuse my lousy choice.)

[Nobama]

I just love Edwards reason - Change - since he does not follow the issues - what change is he looking for? That sounds like an educated man. He does have the right to have an opinion just don't spout it off so that the uneducated idiots that think you are a good qb follow along. Based on the past couple of games against division rivals he should focus on what he knows - oh wait he doesn't know that either.

[john]

Athletes have to keep politics out of the game. Bad enough Keith "overblownhead" Oberman has to be let in on NFL games with all his devisive talk and lefty BS on MSNBC. Funny how the networks always point to fox news when they lack any other argument when they are accused of being way left. Notice how they never point at each other? NBC,CBS,ABC,CNN,MSNBC,CNBC all point at one name ...FOX! That is a six to one advantage in my book and now for the first time i can remember i saw an Obama ad on the weather channel(parent company is now General Electric who...you guessed it owns NBC,CNBC,MSNBC)

[E]

Barack Obama... losers! Face it. It's over for McCain. Edwards has a right to his opinion. It's waaaay more important than yours. You're a nobody. Even if he was a republican just jumping from the sinking ship (which I doubt), it wouldn't matter. The point is, it's time to suck it up and not even show up on election day. Say it with me: "PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!" For the next 2 terms! Ha ha ha ha....

[SoCal]

Jason,

Continually referring to yourself as intelligent will only lead most (intelligent) people to the opposite conclusion. (Try presenting good arguments instead of incoherent ramblings and maybe you'll make some headway in that dept.)

There are hundreds of CELEBRITIES who are very outspoken about their politics and highly critical of our president. ALL of them Democrats. Can you name a single Republican like that? (The Swift Boaters? I don't get the connection - at least they were right)

Emails to pages - Who Barney Frank?

a woman's right to "choose"...Choose what? (They never say) Where to shop? What to watch on TV? Talk about Orwellian...

Then there's the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (aka BAIPA) which Obama has voted against on 3 separate occasions... I guess you're right, politicians are all the same, except that ONLY DEMOCRATS support DENYING MEDICAL CARE to a child they tried to abort but couldn't fully do it successfully and the child is born half alive/ half dead.

See, I want to have an intelligent discussion - I just can't find any takers...

[Jason]

"It has nothing to do with wanting him to support "my guy" either. You almost NEVER hear Republicans do this."

OK, SoCal.

I suppose, then, that when the Swift Boat Veterans aren't flapping their gums, those good ol' boy Republicans don't have much to talk about while they're busy soliciting other men in airport bathrooms or sending explicit emails to congressional pages.

Then again, since we all know that the right wing has a prima fascia claim to morally superiority over the Democrats because the Republican platform opposes a woman's right to choose, I suppose none of that matters.

Or, is it possible that all of them are politicians and with a few exceptions (like John McCain, I believe) they all lie, cheat and steal and it's just that they disagree strongly on what to lie about?

Pull your head out of your crevice a moment and let me know when you're ready for intelligent discussion.

[SoCal]

Jason,

If I was in his position I would not have PUBLICLY made the comment out of mere RESPECT for all the fans who support the TEAM but NOT the CANDIDATE. (Judging by the way you talk to others though (butthurt??) I don't think the concept of respect is too familiar to you)

I don't care WHO he votes for, he HAS the right, etc., etc. Whatever. And I'm not platforming for anybody. Please. If I was, I certainly wouldn't be doing it on a blog that no one reads and in a place that is hopelessly Democratic, regardless of how poorly they run the city. It has nothing to do with wanting him to support "my guy" either. You almost NEVER hear Republicans do this.

[Rob]

Of course he is the people who speak as if they are reading everything off a Q-card have a certain affinity for each other. They both speak in cliches and eventually both will fall flat on there faces.

All flash no substance, or Edwards case all flash, no running game and a noodle arm. Bad weather is here folks chickens have come home to roost.

[Jason]

SoCal!

Based on your comments it's clear you're simply butthurt that Edwards didn't endorse your guy. If he did, you wouldn't be out here platforming for John McCain.

Funny how Trent Edwards can't be a Democrat - only an "anti-republican" [sic].

[hatemenow]

Vote McCain

[SoCal]

Jason,

It appears you have an unfathomable poor ability to read my comments. I never said people were going to jump ship or he doesn't have the RIGHT to his opinion.

(I'll let you in on secret - We ALL have the right to an opinion)

Who's jumping ship?? Not me, are you NUTS? I'm a HUGE supporter of his. He's got class and he gives his teammates credit. I just wish he wouldn't have made the statement. Now he's a little tainted in my eyes. What can I tell you?

[Don H]

I thought Edwards was supposed to be smart. He's quoted as saying that his opinion of Obama is based on a superficial fact,---Obama making a good impression speaking. He added he does not know much about either candidates' platforms. Apparently he also doesn't know about Obama's plans to take a chunk of his salary, because Edwards makes more than $250,000 per year, and give it to the less fortunate through his wealth redistribution scheme. Not the type of reasoned opinion one would expect from a Stanford grad.

[Kim]

In reсent days, Sen. John McCаin (R-AZ) and his surrоgates have аttempted to paint Sеn. Barack Obama (D-IL) as holding anti-Israеl views because of his relationship with Palestinian-American рrofessor Rashid Kаhlidi. Last night on Fоx News Chаnnel, Rudy Giuliani continuеd the anti-Khalidi cаmpаign by сlaiming that he holds а “very hostile viеw оf Israel” аnd has “a connеction tо the PLO.” Giuliani disapprovingly notеd that the Woods Foundation funded “Khalidi’s оrganizatiоns”, while Obаmа was a board member:

Senator Obаmа and Ayers, sitting on the Woods boаrd, gave something likе $70,000 or $80,000 to Khalidi’s organizations that рarticiрated in giving — doing these exhibits which would, I think, tell just one side of thе stоry in terms of the Middlе East. … But — and all that is аvаilаble from publiс rеcord.

In fact, the “public record” shows that Khalidi is а well-respected, mainstream scholar оf Middle Eаstern studies. As thе Washingtоn рost explаined in a 2004 prоfile of Khаlidi and his book Resurrecting Emрire:

Among other sсholars who specialize in the region, [Khalidi’s book] isn’t a rаdicаl take on thе present state of affairs. Miсhael C. Hudsоn, director of the сenter for Cоntempоrary Arab Studies at Georgetown, dеscribеs Khalidi as preeminent in his fiеld, a courageous scholаr and publiс figurе. […]

Khalidi’s book is equally critical оf corruрt аrаb nationalist regimes and Israeli рolicies in the oссupied tеrritoriеs. It is meаsured, perhaps even a bit safe in its main argumеnt.

Furthеr demоnstrating the inаccurаcy of the McCain campaign’s characterization of Khalidi is thе fact that while McCain served as chairman of its board, the Intеrnational Republican Institute distributed several grants to the рalestinian reseаrch center сo-founded by Khalidi.” Seth Colter Walls reports:

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-lеd grоup shows а $448,873 grant to Khalidi’s Center for Palestine Researсh and Studies for work in the Wеst Bank. … The relationship extends back as far аs 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as сhairman in January. Foreign аffаirs noted in Sеptеmbеr оf that yeаr that IRI had helped fund severаl eхtensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi’s group, including оver 30 public opinion polls and a study of“sociopolitical attitudes.”

Not So Fast— Here Is Giuliani’s slip Up.

GIULIANI: What I do know is that Khalidi hаs made Israel… hе has a connection with the PLO… I believe Khаlidi’s wife was thе translatоr… he hаs a very hostilе view to the state of Israеl …and he wаs giving a party and Senator Obаmа said laudatory things abоut him… аnd Senator Obama and Ayers, sitting on the Woods board, gavе sоmething like $70,000 or $80,000 to Khalidi’s organizations

Senator, Senаtor, Senator. Morals asidе, this is the classic problem of guilt by аssociаtion: Obama and Ayеrs gave Khalidi’s orgаnizаtions $80,000. Mссain gavе Khalidi’s organizations $448,000.

Obаmа and Ayers. Obama and Ayers. Obаmа and Ayers and McCain. Obama аnd Ayers and McCain. Ayers and McCаin. Ayers and McCain! Sо now, not only is Rashid Khalidi your problem, not Obama’s. But nоw you’re connected to Bill Ayеrs.

[gopkilla]

go bills.

Hey DT, you ever pick your feet in poughkeepsie?

Quick, wait, hold on, don't answer that!

Yes I would imagine it's staggering to you cretins [who don't have any money to tax anyways, just a bunch of eroding equity, no skills and zero sum intellects] that this NFL QB who makes millions of dollars in income a year, who will obviously be affected by the democratic parties new tax plans [look up progressive taxation; Teddy Roosevelt thought highly of it...it's an interesting idea], would vote with his head not his pocket.

You do know he is a high IQ QB right?

Get your head out of your crack, this isn't a theocracy and for darn sure morons like you who lean idiocratic, aren't making the fucking rules, frankly come wednesday, win or lose on the [D] side, head for the hills.

[Jason]

Gosh, SoCal, I didn't realize you had such an unfathomably poor understanding of the electoral process. I'm in the military and voted by ABSENTEE BALLOT and I have already mailed it in. But someone as educated as you on politics already knew that.

I very strongly doubt that "half of Trent Edwards' fans" are immediately going to jump ship because he said who he is voting for. Of course, by your "logic," we'd better hope Lee Evans isn't a McCain supporter or Trent Edwards won't throw the ball to him because Evans would have "alienated" his quarterback.

Trent Edwards has the RIGHT to say whatever he wants to say in the media. If he loses you as a fan, I'm sure he'll still be able to fall asleep at night.

[Sean]

Hey NY it doesn't matter, your state's electoral college votes will go to Obama! Stop crying he has the right to vote, if he wanted to vote Mccain I'd be scared hes days away from death and Palin thinks Dinosaurs were around a couple thousands of years ago hanging out with moses

[Lori]

Oh, good grief. He was asked for his opinion by a Jets beat writer. He answered politely.

Here's the exact response:
"I’ll be voting for Barack. The reason is I think that a change needs to be made and that’s the biggest change out of the two candidates. Besides that, I haven’t really been following it too closely in terms of their issues, their policies and what they differ on. I just feel like he’s the most different from the one we have in power right now. Hopefully, he’ll get elected."

This is worth getting worked up about? Some of you need a better hobby.

[Vandy Adam]

The fact that people think Obama is a communist and a socialist is demonstrative of the fact that people in this country have forgotten what those words mean. The Cold War wasn't that long ago, was it?

[Vandy Adam]

Trent's a citizen too. He's allowed to have an opinion. I think some folks just don't like his opinion.

[GOBILLS!]

Jeeesch.....lotta Right-Wingers on this comment board!

And proposing a quarterback change based on one player's statement about who he plans to vote for?

Sad......really sad.....

[SoCal]

You grow up Greg.

No, YOU!

After Trent's comment, I think JP is change we need.

[tim]

It isn't that he can't answer. He is free to answer as much as anyone else. He can even put a sign in his front yard. It is his tact that I question. Handled himself during the campaign? That's no reason to vote for someone running for anything, it is like saying "I am voting for the pretty one". The change we need in this country? That is a valid reason to vote for someone. Now, whether or not I agree that he (Obama) is the change we need in this country is not the point because this is a sports blog. If you think the change we need in this country is changin the first amendement to Freedom of Our Speech and Freedom From Religion then by all means vote for that man. Slap a few bumper stickers on your car that I gurantee cost more than double mine, throw a lawn sign up at your house and wear a pin for all I care. Just don't think about those things when Vernon Gholston is staring you down from across the line of scrimmage.

[DT in Socal]

Mike,

It DOES mean that.

If a reporter questions a celebrity whose livelihood depends upon the entire public for their support, you don't take the bait and answer it. (it has nothing to do with the very slanted media or polls by the way)

YOU'RE perfectly Ok with it because 99% of the time it's Democrats who do that. Ryan is right - You have to question Trent's smarts if he supports the candidate who is promising to take A LOT more of his money.

Also, if you notice, ex-Republican presidents and vice presidents adhere to a protocol of not criticizing current administrations. Not the Democrats. Al Gore and Jimmy Carter have been traveling around the world, in private jets I might add, bashing our president. You never heard Dan Quayle or George Bush Sr. during the Clinton years.

It's classless and we're sick and tired of it!

[Hands Out Of My Wallet Trent]

Trent --- if you want to be taxed at 39.6% up from 36% you're free to pay that amount to the feds as a voluntary donation. (BTW, do you do that already? No? Why not?)

But why reach into my pocket to take more money and redistribute it against my will? The new high rate of 39.6% Obama wants would just be federal, not even considering NY state's high income tax and high property tax, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, utility taxes, school taxes, - when does it end Trent? When is enough enough?

At your next news conference please explain how you justify wanting Washington DC to take more than 36% of money that I EARN!

[Greg]

What? Some of you people in here need to grow up. You think he just went up to Allen Wilson and said "Hey, I'm voting for Obama" and started saying why? No, he probably was asked about the election and who he was voting for, he answered and now there's an article. Ryan, you said that nobody cares what "celebrities" think about who to vote for. However, you're not a celebrity and you pretty much said who you're voting for without saying it....and I really could care less about your opinion. Is this bad feedback from Bills "fans" because he didn't say McCain? lol

[Big Frank]

I take all my political cues from Leodis McKelvin.

[Ryan]

This is depressing. Looks like Edwards is morphing into one of those annoying celebrities who thinks the rest of the country cares how he votes. Hope he enjoys seeing most of his money "redistributed." Then again, he makes millions for playing a game, so he doesn't actually "work" for it like the rest of us. I guess that's why he doesn't mind watching most of his income go to the 40% of people in this county who don't pay taxes. (fyi it's not a tax cut Obama is giving those who don't pay taxes but a governmental handout).

[Mike]

Looks like some people are getting testy after seeing some of the polls.

If someone asks you who you are voting for, you would answer the question (and by your comments, its pretty clear who you are voting for). So, what, just because he's an athlete, that means he's not allowed to answer? Grow up people.

[Earth to Trent]

Trent -

You should shut up and play football.

Football is a business. How does it make sense to insult 50% of your customers? What was gained other than stroking you own ego imagining that anyone will vote the way you want them to?

Take a lesson from Marv Levy and the late Bill Walsh, and keep your politics to yourself.

People read the sport page and watch sports as an escape from political polarization. There's no need for players to shove their politics in the face of the fans, regardless of whether they're Republican or Democrat.

[DT in Socal]

Are you kidding me???

Is it not enough that every Hollywood celebrity feels obligated to spout off their anti republican political views and now our quarterback does too??

Let's pray that athlete's getting political is not part of this larger celebrity trend. It been nice to know that the NFL has been a sanctuary from that sort of thing.

Besides, it's one thing to stop buying Madonna and Dixie Chick CD's or watching Sean Penn and Daniel Glubber movies, but much harder to give up the Bills.

Way to go Trent. That's the thanks we Republican Bills fans get for championing your @ss all over the place.