This endorsement was planned well in advance to do maximum damage to one of their own.

Edwards is pretty enthusiastic in his praise for Clinton in this endorsement speech for Obama. I suspect some of the poeople in the hall may have thought he was going to surprise them all by making a u-turn, and endorsing her. And I'd have thought it was timed so as to do her bid for the nomination minimum damage, since by now, it seems generally agreed, it is virtually finished.