Edwards calls self fighter, calls Obama view "fantasy"

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NEWMARKET – Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said he's a better choice than primary rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to battle special interests blocking reform on health care, climate change and other issues.

Edwards said it takes a fighter like himself, rather than a self-described unifier like Obama to break the logjam on Capitol Hill where lobbyists write the laws or block passage of meaningful change.

"I don't think you can compromise with the entrenched interests in Washington. They are too powerful," Edwards said after a town-hall-style forum at the Stone Church in Newmarket.

On Monday, Edwards told a New York Times reporter in Iowa that Obama's view was a "fantasy."

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1. oh, here we go...(does "fantasy" equate to "naive" - ?)

:D

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3. I'd say there's a connection there

and an accurate one at that

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2. Edwards...

...knows what's broken, the question is would he have the knowledge to navigate the bureaucratic and special interests blocking his way to reform. He would have to nominate a meat-and-potato kinda person as his VP, someone like Clinton or Dodd to help him make his reform efforts happen.