Some Classic DNC Toons on Why We Need to Be Strong

[JDPriestly]

6. John Edwards wouldn't have tried to reason with this bunch of Republicans.

John Edwards was a plaintiff's attorney. He tried products liability cases among others. He would have known going in what he was up against because he had been up against the recalcitrance of corporate defense attorneys for many years. That is why he warned that Democrats could not sit down at the table with the insurance companies and negotiate health care insurance reform. In fact, I believe that Obama would have done much better had he insisted on obtaining from the insurance companies an agreement to permit a public option before sitting down to negotiate with them.

John Edwards would have been a much tougher negotiator than Obama has been. That's one of the reasons that I liked John Edwards better. It's really a shame that Edwards made the personal mistakes that he made. He could have contributed a great deal to the discourse of our time if not to the political decisions.