Edwards moves into attack mode.

[Dr.Phool]

Looks like things are starting to heat up on the campaign trail.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/08/edwards_goes_after_clinton_oba.php

Edwards Goes After Clinton, Obama, Saying Don't Vote for Nostalgia or Empty 'Change Rhetoric'

PHILIP ELLIOTT
AP News

Aug 22, 2007 21:10 EDT

Voters shouldn't pick a presidential candidate on the basis of either "change rhetoric" or a yearning for the past, John Edwards says, seeking to draw clearer lines between himself and rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

(snip)

"Small thinking and outdated answers aren't the only problems with a vision for the future that is rooted in nostalgia," Edwards said in the prepared remarks. "The trouble with nostalgia is that you tend to remember what you liked and forget what you didn't. It's not just that the answers of the past aren't up to the job today, it's that the system that produced them was corrupt _ and still is."

Edwards also planned to tell voters they can't simply replace "a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats, just swapping the Washington insiders of one party for the Washington insiders of the other." He criticized "ideas and policies that are tired, shopworn and obsolete.

(snip) more

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/08/edwards_goes_after_clinton_oba.php

[Freedomofspeech]

1. You gotta love him....

Spoke to several of my Democratic friends here in SW PA. Everyone of them is supporting Edwards. So who is the media polling?

[Dr.Phool]

2. Republicans.

[Clark2008]

14. Really?

I see mostly Obama supporters here in the South - no HRC or Edwards.

[NYCGirl]

3. "The trouble with nostalgia is that you tend to remember what you liked

and forget what you didn't" says Edwards. Applied to his stint in the Senate, for example?

[Clark2008]

15. Bahahahahahahaha!

Good one!

:thumbsup:

:7

[madmunchie]

18. Ding Ding Ding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Something that the JE supporters are great at...

""trouble with nostalgia is that you tend to remember what you liked and forget what you didn't" says Edwards." Applied to his stint in the Senate, for example?"
Posted by NYCGirl - -You go girl!

[Mythsaje]

20. His voting record

Voted NO on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004)
Voted NO on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record. (Dec 2003)
Voted NO on prioritizing national debt reduction below tax cuts. (Apr 2000)
Voted YES on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002)
Voted YES on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000)
Voted YES to Increase subsidies for women-owned non-profit business. (Mar 2004)
Rated 15% by the US COC, indicating an anti-business voting record. (Dec 2003)
Voted YES on $1.15 billion per year to continue the COPS program. (May 1999)
Voted NO on increasing penalties for drug offenses. (Nov 1999)
Rated B- by VOTE-HEMP, indicating a pro-hemp voting record. (Dec 2003)
Voted YES on funding smaller classes instead of private tutors. (May 2001)
Voted YES on funding student testing instead of private tutors. (May 2001)
Voted YES on spending $448B of tax cut on education & debt reduction. (Apr 2001)
Rated 83% by the NEA, indicating pro-public education votes. (Dec 2003)
Voted YES on removing consideration of drilling ANWR from budget bill. (Mar 2003)
Voted NO on drilling ANWR on national security grounds. (Apr 2002)
Voted NO on terminating CAFE standards within 15 months. (Mar 2002)
Voted NO on preserving budget for ANWR oil drilling. (Apr 2000)
Voted NO on confirming Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior. (Jan 2001)
Rated 0% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-family voting record.
Voted NO on cap foreign aid at only $12.7 billion. (Oct 1999)
Voted NO on establishing free trade between US & Singapore. (Jul 2003)
Voted NO on establishing free trade between the US and Chile. (Jul 2003)
Voted YES on granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam. (Oct 2001)
Voted YES on removing common goods from national security export rules. (Sep 2001)
Voted NO on expanding fee trade to the third world. (May 2000)
Rated 17% by CATO, indicating a pro-fair trade voting record. (Dec 2002) THIS WAS LOWEST CATO RATING FOR ANYONE RUNNING IN '04
Voted YES on banning "soft money" contributions and restricting issue ads. (Mar 2002)
Voted NO on require photo ID (not just signature) for voter registration. (Feb 2002)
Voted YES on funding for National Endowment for the Arts. (Aug 1999)
Voted YES on background checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
Voted NO on more penalties for gun & drug violations. (May 1999)
Voted NO on loosening license & background checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
Voted YES to require health insurance for every child. (Aug 2003)
Voted NO on $40 billion per year for limited Medicare prescription drug benefit. (Jun 2003)
Voted YES on allowing reimportation of Rx drugs from Canada. (Jul 2002)
Voted YES on allowing patients to sue HMOs & collect punitive damages. (Jun 2001)
Voted NO on funding GOP version of Medicare prescription drug benefit. (Apr 2001)
Voted YES on including prescription drugs under Medicare. (Jun 2000)
Voted NO on limiting self-employment health deduction. (Jul 1999)
Voted YES to let states make bulk Rx purchases, and other innovations. (May 2003)
Rated 100% by APHA, indicating a pro-public health record. (Dec 2003)
Voted YES to end government propaganda on Medicare bill. (Mar 2004)
Voted YES on adopting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. (Oct 1999)
Voted YES on military pay raise of 4.8%. (Feb 1999)
Voted YES to federalize aviation security. (Nov 2001)
Voted YES to hiding sources made post-9-11 analysis impossible. (Jul 2004)
Voted YES to CIA depends too heavily on defectors & not enough on HUMINT. (Jul 2004)
Voted YES to administration did not pressure CIA on WMD conclusions. (Jul 2004)
Voted NO on repealing Clinton's ergonomic rules on repetitive stress. (Mar 2001)
Voted NO on killing an increase in the minimum wage. (Nov 1999)
Rated 100% by the AFL-CIO, indicating a pro-union voting record. (Dec 2003)
Voted NO on using the Social Security Surplus to fund tax reductions. (Jul 1999)
Voted NO on Social Security Lockbox & limiting national debt. (Apr 1999)
Rated 100% by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record. (Dec 2003)
Voted YES on More tax cuts and tax credits for 98% of Americans. (Jul 2004)
Voted NO on $350 billion in tax breaks over 11 years. (May 2003)
Voted YES on increasing tax deductions for college tuition. (May 2001)
Voted NO on phasing out the estate tax ("death tax"). (Jul 2000)
Voted NO on across-the-board spending cut. (Oct 1999)
Rated 22% by NTU, indicating a "Big Spender" on tax votes. (Dec 2003)

[Inspired]

22. Thanks for pointing this out and debunking the

crap I just read here.

Edwards' speech today was brilliant.

[NYCGirl]

24. And what bills did he actually sponsor or co-sponsor? Anything benefitting

his populism?

[bryant69]

4. I imagine it's got to be a rough campaign season

I mean they kind of have to do it don't they?

Bryant

[BanzaiBonnie]

5. Edwards "gets it"

Edwards also planned to tell voters they can't simply replace "a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats, just swapping the Washington insiders of one party for the Washington insiders of the other."


Any corporate owned Dems must go along with the tired Republican ideas. This will only happen with support at the grassroots level.


I agree with Thom Hartmann --- The corporate world is terrified of John Edwards. He's the one they DON"T want in the presidency. That's why corporate media will knock him down any chance they get. The problem for them is that he's an idealist.

[Dr.Phool]

7. Someone posted a video of that Cramer idiot on CNBC.

He was calling Edwards, "Public Enemy #1".

Just one more reason to support Edwards.

[Blackhatjack]

11. Edwards' Campaign Should Run An Ad with a Clip of Cramer saying that...

What better way to show the people who the Wall Street types really fear occupying the White House?

[Clark2008]

16. They don't want a DLCer?

Since when?

Edwards was DLC his entire time in the Senate. The only reason he's not now is because he doesn't hold an elected office.

[truebrit71]

6. Nice!

I especially like...'they can't simply replace "a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats'....

Just about sums it up really...

[porphyrian]

8. I like everything about him but his opposition to gay marriage.

I want liberty and justice for everybody, not just some.

[SoFlaJet]

9. I'm voting for John Edwards

on January 29th down here-unless Al Gore runs-which I highly doubt at this point

[Dr.Phool]

10. My feelings exactly.

And if you read "The Assault on Reason", you'll see that Gore understands perfectly, just how corrupt the system has gotten.

[SoFlaJet]

12. I don't have to read it Doc

I've LIVED it-I am one of the over 90 thousand Floridians whose name was purged off the voting rolls in 2000 down here in PBC

[Dr.Phool]

13. Did you manage to get back on?

I know of people who've been trying to clear up that mess for years, and are still having trouble.

Another arbitrary trick they're using now is matching the signature on absentee votes. A friend of mine in Citrus County and her family (3 voters) voted in the special election there in June. Two of the votes were tossed because "the signatures didn't look right".

This state is something else.

[SoFlaJet]

17. Oh yea

that day changed my LIFE-I vowed to NEVER let something like that happen to me again and to get active

[Coexist]

23. amazing book.

[Hieronymus]

19. Edwards is the man .. he can win against any republican. I think Hillary

would have a hard fight against a republican. :eyes:

[Inspired]

21. Good and I hope he keeps it up! n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

25. I'm glad he is! If Gore doesn't enter the race (my wish), John gets my vote. eom