Bear with me on this

I'm not sure why I putting these two items together, but, gosh darnit, they just seem related somehow:

1. The Interior Department has decided to protect the polar bear as a threatened species because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming; and

2. John Edwards, 2004's Democratic VP nominee and someone whose own presidential bid in 2008 was abandoned after the Super Tuesday primaries, will endorse Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign.