NYT: Hungry for Coverage: Edwards will announce candidacy next week in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward

[DeepModem Mom]

Hungry for Coverage
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: December 19, 2006

If any more evidence was needed that the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina will play a prominent role in Democratic efforts to take back the White House, it has arrived. Former Senator John Edwards will announce his second presidential bid next week in the storm-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

Mr. Edwards has made addressing poverty central to his campaign and sees this as a way to dramatize what he argues have been White House failures.

More perplexing, at least from a conventional point of view, is why Mr. Edwards would announce his candidacy in the last week of the year, a dead time for news, when it can be hard to win voters’ attention.

Democrats said his campaign was gambling that the television networks and cable news programs would find New Orleans a compelling setting in a week when they were desperate for news and when many Americans would be in front of their television sets, albeit looking for football more than politics....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/us/politics/19pintro.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[catnhatnh]

1. Gee, is he as "Hungry For Coverage" as Bush,

or does he have to visit a half dozen more times first?

[nashville_brook]

2. nice opinionated headline... contrary to the story...

[Marnieworld]

10. At first glance I thought it meant the 9th Ward was Hungry

But that's just me, knowing how abandoned the place is. Unless they can exploit something for *'s gain it's like it never even exists.

[Catchawave]

3. Not LBN, opinion piece?

[jpgray]

4. Adam Nagourney is such an asshole.

[Mass]

5. Exactly - Anybody who followed the 04 campaigns knows that!\nt

[HereSince1628]

6. Does anyone know how often Edwards has been to the Gulf Coast

since Katrina? I don't.

[Catchawave]

13. Not sure of the number of visits, but the largest one

was taking 700 hundred college kids there for Spring Break and spent a week with them cleaning up. There was a diary w/photos on dKos recently:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/17/01429/686

[SoCalDem]

7. This whole "announcing" that they will announce stuff is getting loopy

We may just need a new "holiday".. Announcement Day, when all prospective candidates step forward and "testify".
:sarcasm:

[Red Zelda]

8. Edwards was EVERYWHERE in 2004...

yet no media ever covered it. Meanwhile, that lying sack of pigshit Cheney was on TV. Every day. Every fucking day.

[Marnieworld]

9. And that is why I love John Edwards

For weeks now I've been saying Gore/Edwards and I'll say it again. Edwards is brave, brilliant and his heart is with Americans that need help. He is a good man and a true leader. Every single day leaders should bring up Katrina and NOLA. It is SHAMEFUL how that city was abandoned. Sickening that cleanup is non-existent. Criminal as to what was done to the citizens of the Gulf Coast.

Bravo Senator! Excellent choice. :patriot:

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[Eurobabe]

11. Nagourney is a dick, ignore him. He and Nedra Pickler

are kissin' cousins of the asshole kind.

[zulchzulu]

12. Why is Edwards using the Ninth Ward ruins as a prop?

Does he have any tangential, reasonable plans to help them out?

Using that tragedy as a backdrop seems a tad distasteful to me. Hey, I used to live in NOLA and have seen the mess firsthand. Using that as a "compelling setting" seems manipulative.

If Edwards was really smart and wanted to get the attention of the southern swing voter, he'd go to some of the ruins on the Mississippi Gulf coast.

Besides all this, I find it's way too early to declare your candidacy. I'd wait until the spring at the earliest.

[chimpymustgo]

15. Well, that's what YOU'D do. Edwards has decided differently.

I think its a good idea. And which month of spring will you be choosing?

[LittleClarkie]

16. Good place to do it

for his message on 2 Americas.