Mr. Edwards, Endorse Barack Obama Today!

He's leaving the Presidential race today. The announcement will be made from the Lower Ninth Ward.

I really admire the campaign he has run and think he'd make a good President.

I think he's making the right decision.

There's one more right decision for him to make.

All of the media reports are indicating that Edwards will NOT make an endorsement today but may do so later.

I hope "later" means sometime later today or tomorrow.
Or I hope it means immediately.

Is there any doubt that he is closer, personally and ideologically, to Mr. Obama than Mrs. Clinton? To me, his choice is obvious. Explain to me how my assumptions are misguided, if you think otherwise. Timing-wise, I don't understand how Mr. Edwards could think his endorsement would have any more value than it does right now, just before the Feb. 5th monster primary. Pushing it any closer to next Tuesday and you risk burying the endorsement in an election day news cycle that won't give proper coverage to anything but will give bad coverage to everything.