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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 10:09 AM
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i now regret my support for john edwards and the
money i gave his campaign.

i really should have known better.

well, it won't happen again.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 10:10 AM
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1. What happened did I miss something?
Or is this about the Obama endorsement
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 10:22 AM
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2. while i love his -- or anybody's work and supprt for the
idea of support for working americans and poor americans -- it is about the obama endorcement.

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Beregond2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 12:59 PM
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5. I find that hard to understand.
Weren't you paying attention during the debates? Edwards and Obama were practically a tag-team. It was always obvious who he would endorse.
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susankh4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 01:04 PM
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6. I was paying attention.
And I heard Edwards ridicule Obama for not standing up for universal health care....

But I guess it was all a charade...

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Beregond2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 01:45 PM
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7. That was one issue. He backed-up Obama
on everything else.
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:16 PM
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8. Not on O's wrong headed stance on
nuclear power. JE was with Hillary a big fat "NO"
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Creideiki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 06:52 PM
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10. Not really.
Edwards wasn't espousing "merit pay" to improve the education system, either. And on gay civil rights, Elizabeth was far more progressive than, say, Michelle--Elizabeth at least provided a softening figure. Edwards was also showing his stance to be liberalizing. That's not the case with Obama, who seems to be courting the evangelical set quite rapidly.

So while Edwards was trying to move the party Left, Barack has been moving it Right. Hooray for us. We'll be choosing this election cycle between moderate-loony Right and moderate-loony Right, depending on the issue.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 11:16 AM
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3. this election has been depressing for a lot of us.
Edited on Fri May-23-08 11:32 AM by lionesspriyanka
not just cos hillary has all but lost but because of mcclurkin, the very idea that nunn could be considered VP material

blah

also the misogyny expressed reiterates my second/throed/fourth class citizenship
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 11:41 AM
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4. indeed -- it's seems to be all of a piece.
the initial debates were thrilling and then -- well just went all blech.
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susankh4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 04:03 PM
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9. It continues to really sadden me....
how easily we Dems can be duped, and drug along on an amusement park ride.

We do it to ourselves again and again.
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