John Edwards runs for President

[busybody..]

He is positioning himself as a champion of the POOR and OPPRESSED

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Announces his intention to run in New Orleans to show he cares

 

[busybody..]

meanwhile back in North Carolina

he is building himself a FOUR MILLION DOLLAR HOME!

 

[RightField]

Does the remote possibilty of a trial lawyer running the country give you the willies? It does for me. Thankfully, it's a very remote possibility.

 

[Aliea]

He has no chance to be elected. Why do they even bother?

 

[Ham Murabi]

You're pretty prolific for being dead.

 

[lightning1]

His website had a glitch, It wasn't supposed to go live and did a day early.

His slogan of "Tomorrow begins today" actually did.

 

[busybody..]

You're pretty prolific for being dead.

Im a LIB

I vote twice even when dead

I POST EVEN DEAD

 

[busybody..]

He has no chance to be elected. Why do they even bother?

HUBRIS

 

[RightField]

Im a LIB

I vote twice even when dead

I POST EVEN DEAD

Only twice? I thought most libs voted 10 times.

 

[busybody..]

Only twice? I thought most libs voted 10 times.

Twice per HOUR

Geez

Do I gotta S P E L L everything out for ya

 

[RightField]

Twice per HOUR

Geez

Do I gotta S P E L L everything out for ya

Thanks, that's makes more sense. Libs won the area where I live and I don't know a single person who voted for them....I can't imagine how they won.

 

[busybody..]

Is THIS what we want in a President? FUCKING LOSER

The first lesson of Edwards' announcement this morning is this: If you are going to wear a wireless microphone so you can appear before the press without the artifice of a podium, you should make sure your staff puts new batteries in the transmitter, so your audio signal will not deteriorate as it runs out of juice, or as it encounters interference from the zillions of other wireless devices at the news conference. Better yet, use a wire.

The second lesson is more substantive. Watching the event on television, it appeared that the backdrop crowd Edwards assembled was almost entirely black — not a big surprise in that part of New Orleans. Now, Edwards "Two Americas" refers to the division between rich and poor, or at least between poor and everybody else. But the visuals suggested that he views that pretty much as a black and white issue. Why not use the media event to suggest that the Two Americas goes beyond racial divisions?

Hurricane Katrina hurt a lot of people without respect to race — just look at the damage it did in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, which is 88 percent white, and Harrison County, Mississippi, which is 73 percent white, and Hancock County, Mississippi, which is 90 percent white. If you're going to have a Katrina-themed media event in New Orleans, why not bring in representatives of all the people who were hurt by the storm and who suffered from the local/state/federal government's initial mishandling of it? That would look a lot more like the Gulf Coast, and, just coincidentally, it would look a lot more like the Democratic electorate Edwards hopes to attract

 

[busybody..]

Thanks, that's makes more sense. Libs won the area where I live and I don't know a single person who voted for them....I can't imagine how they won.

Cheat n lie n manipulate n fraud

how else

 

[busybody..]

LOSER and LIAR

As advertised, John Edwards announced for president this morning in a fairly low-key event in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. He was backed up by a group of children wearing "One Corps" T-shirts. One Corps — the name plays off Edwards' "Two Americas" theme — is an organization the Edwards campaign founded, in the words of its website, to:

Fight poverty in their local communities; addressing important local needs through community organizing and service projects.

Help elect local, state and federal candidates who support One America ideals, and who are fighting for all Americans.

And, spread the message of One America by writing letters to the editor, calling local radio stations, talking with other members of their communities at events and meetings, and recruiting new members to the One Corps community.

Although the kids at the news conference wore their One Corps shirts, it appears the organization hasn't gotten too far in New Orleans. If information on the newly up-and-running Edwards website is correct, there is just one chapter of One Corps in the New Orleans area (it's located in Metairie), and it has two members.

 

[breakwall]

Is he richer than Bush?

 

[unregistered]

 

[huskie]

it's all over the news down here......this dumbass has no clue as to the state he's coming from either?

 

[busybody..]

A good read

a PIECE OF SHIT full of pretense


JOHN EDWARDS: SHOWTIME IN THE NINTH WARD [Byron York]

Until God and Gerald Ford intervened, this was supposed to be the no-news week that would be the perfect time for John Edwards to become the first major candidate, Democrat or Republican, to formally announce a run for president. Edwards is sticking with his plan and will make his announcement tomorrow in New Orleans' Ninth Ward — could there be a better setting for the 2008 version of that famous Two Americas speech?

To some observers, Edwards on the stump seems almost astonishingly phony. But he has an ability — it's hard to describe precisely — to make something as contrived as a New Orleans announcement work for him. I followed him for a short while in South Carolina in early 2004, and saw him turn around potentially damaging situations in which audience members clearly doubted his bona fides. From an article I wrote back then:

After the church appearance, and a candidates' debate, Edwards heads to the state capital of Columbia, where he will appear with the other candidates at an event called "Dialogue With America's Families," organized by a Washington-based activist group called the Center for Community Change. It's a loony-Left gathering, with an atmosphere reminiscent of last year's antiwar protests. In the program that precedes the candidates' appearances, a woman takes the stage to sing her personal national anthem — "O beautiful, for darkened skies, for us there is no grain; for purple mountain majesties, above the fruitless plain." Dreadlocked poets read their work from dog-eared notebooks. A speaker yells, "This is the creed for the people in need!" Someone beats an African drum…

[During the event] Edwards pulls off a trick that few other candidates could even attempt. David Stanton, the local TV anchorman moderating the event, asks Edwards, "You made millions of dollars as a trial lawyer. According to published reports, you and your wife recently purchased two multi-million-dollar homes in the Washington area. You talk about two Americas. Is it reasonable to think that you can relate to those who are less fortunate?"

As Stanton finishes, the crowd begins to boo Edwards; someone that rich clearly can't know the creed for the people in need. Then Edwards begins to answer. "The life that I have lived is the dream that is being shut off from so many Americans every single day," he says. He tells the mill-village story, the my-dad-was-a-mill-worker story, and then, turning to the crowd, he holds his arms out like a televangelist and says, "I grew up the way you grew up. I come from the same place. I spent twenty years in courtrooms fighting for YOU, against big corporate America, against big insurance companies. I will never forget where I come from, and you can take that to the bank." By the time Edwards finishes, the crowd is cheering for him.

How that worked I just don't know. But it did.

 

[busybody..]

Is he richer than Bush?

worth $30 million

I dunno what Bush is worth


Shouldnt SOMEONE have gotten you a head for Christmas

 

[breakwall]

I've seen him in interviews.

At the very least, he talks like a man who is CAPABLE of running the country. Not like a man who couldn't balance the books down at the co-op.

 

[breakwall]

worth $30 million

I dunno what Bush is worth


Shouldnt SOMEONE have gotten you a head for Christmas

Last estimates, prior to his election to President, GWB had a net worth of around $200 mill. Now a lot of that is held up in family interests and estates.

Truth is, you can't play the "Rich Kid" card with ANY politician running for president. They're ALL loaded.

 

[busybody..]

Last estimates, prior to his election to President, GWB had a net worth of around $200 mill. Now a lot of that is held up in family interests and estates.

Truth is, you can't play the "Rich Kid" card with ANY politician running for president. They're ALL loaded.

I dont believe the $200 million number

True, MOST polyticians are rich

But

I dont wanna see em play the hippocreep shit!

 

[busybody..]

I've seen him in interviews.

At the very least, he talks like a man who is CAPABLE of running the country. Not like a man who couldn't balance the books down at the co-op.

He is a trial lawyer

He can sound anyway he wants to sound

He can say anything and anyway he thinks YOU want it to sound like!

 

[Ham Murabi]

What was the deal with Edwards? He convinced a jury that if a mom would have had a Caesarian, the infant would have lived. He spoke for the infant to the jury. I don't remember any of the particulars about what prompted the lawsuit, but the end result was that Edwards won millions for his client and himself, malpractice rates shot through the roof, and a whole bunch of women had unnecessary C-sections.
Sounds like the perfect liberal candidate for president.

 

[busybody..]

What was the deal with Edwards? He convinced a jury that if a mom would have had a Caesarian, the infant would have lived. He spoke for the infant to the jury. I don't remember any of the particulars about what prompted the lawsuit, but the end result was that Edwards won millions for his client and himself, malpractice rates shot through the roof, and a whole bunch of women had unnecessary C-sections.
Sounds like the perfect liberal candidate for president.

Not only that

But most OB/GYNs left the State!