Comments by user: Linda
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John Edwards has never taken money from Lobbyists or PACS, where as Obama only copied him for this campaign...but still Obama's claim doesn't equal with the 76K he received from Lobbyists through the 3rd quarter of this fundraising cycles.
John Edwards will fight and move our country forward for working Americans. He is not indebted to his Corporate Donors as Obama and Clinton have been and showed by their votes.
This is the opportunity America has been asking for. Not to coronate the front runners, to choose the Peoples candidate.
John Edwards, Real Change on Real Issues for America.
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By Gamblndan
And, what does his home have anything to do with the work he will be doing. He paid for it with his hard working money and he built a Green Energy efficient home.
Much better than the dirty deal Obama has been dabbling in for years that recently resulted in his new home next to door to his friend/backer/money bundler Rezko, who has been indicted for many illegal activities...particularly in Real Estate.
By Gamblndan
Must be nice...you wanna' share what you're taking?
Edwards did not support NAFTA as you claim.
OBAMA did....as a matter of fact, he spelled it out "I support Free Trade and I support adding Peru to the Free Trade Agreement".
And if you thinks it's so bad that Edwards voted for the first Patriot Act, maybe you might think it pretty bad that Obama...who campaigned in 2004 against the war and the Patriot act......ACTUALLY HAD THE NERVE TO VOTE FOR THE PATRIOT ACT 2....major huevos....
Oh and the war??...yep, after getting in the Senate in 2005, he spent the next 2 years before announcing his presidency voting for every funding bill...and acutally voted AGAINST the one Bill brought to the floor in June 2006 to end the war.
Now, Obama wasn't in the senate when No Child Left Behind came for a vote, just like he didn't hafe a vote on the War, but something tells me according to his record, he SURE WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR IT.
Now, lets see...Oh, his lie about not supporting Nuclear Plants until we find a way to store waste. He VOTED FOR CHENEY's ENERGY BILL for Nuclear Plants and Oil give aways in 2005.
Coal....he pushed a Lobbyist backed Liquified Coal Bill....TWICE til it failed again in June 2007...this is tax dollars he wanted to use AND it would have added so much pollutions to Global Warming, it would have been like replacing every car with a Hummer.
Keep the American Promise. John Edwards for America and stop this Corporate Cronyism!!!
And, speaking of hyprocrisy. You all know that speech Obama gave in Reno the other day, where he tried to paint Reagan, the Republican that started trick down economics and the start of NeoCons agenda, as some sort of good guy that he wanted to be compared to?
John Edwards responded perfectly!
Obama:I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what's different are the times. I do think that for example the 1980 was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing."
Edwards:When you think about what Ronald Reagan did to the American people, to the middle class to the working people".
"He was openly - openly - intolerant of unions and the right to organize. He openly fought against the union and the organized labor movement in this country. He openly did extraordinary damage to the middle class and working people, created a tax structure that favored the very wealthiest Americans and caused the middle class and working people to struggle every single day. The destruction of the environment, you know, eliminating regulation of companies that were polluting and doing extraordinary damage to the environment."
"I can promise you this: this president will never use Ronald Reagan as an example for change.
You show them what they have been shielded from by this Corporate media pushing him.
THE most egregious hypocrisy. AND, this is after he complained about unions supporting John Edwards in Iowa, calling them "special interests who have too much influence in DC".....How do you like that Union members. He blasted union members as special interests, like his Corporate Donors and attacked John Edwards for his heavy Union support.
This man is such a fraud, it's scary if people don't notice this before it's too late.
stanjz....if you want to repeat that silly talking point by Obama campaign go ahead. Except he didn't have a job that made that. He decided instead to make a career out of politics.
John Edwards DID have a jobs that made millions and could have made more, but decided to go in to public life to better peoples lives, after the loss of his son.
That's REAL, not fantasy land.
John Edwards, keeping the promise to America
Obama Supporter Lawrence O'Donnell, [Union members]"aren't sharp" and "Edwards Real Left Democrats don't factor".......pssst excuse us Obama campaign, WE'RE THE ONES THAT VOTE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY!
If Nevadans really care about Health Care, they should be supporting John Edwards.
John Edwards knows how important health care is. Both professionally and personally.
Besides, it's not a surprise that Obama's won't be Universal and will leave of millions from care, but he won't control costs either, because when he first started to run, he said he didn't want to provide "anything like what Canada has".
Please, don't vote the Corporate interests, vote the PEOPLES INTERESTS.
John Edwards, keeping the promise to America.
This is what voters have asked for. A candidate that will fight for the people. Not one being pushed at them. Use your voice, please, can we ask you to vote for John Edwards, and finally move America forward.
Jan 16, Las Vegas
So, it seems either Senator Obama is unaware of our past, from yet another many examples, or he is trying to rewrite history. Trying to actually infer, people voted for Reagan because they just wanted to feel good, too. Like that's all he has to offer.
Now on the campaign, Senator Obama actually states:
"I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what's different are the times. I do think that for example the 1980 was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing."-Barack Obama
Only problem is, we remember the horrible Trick Down Economics and the start of the projbect for the NeoCons, and the decline that has lead us here.
AND, the TRUTH and REALITY is not because of excesses from decades before, PLEASE, and was not for a goodie goodie messaage, but one of FEAR and Threats with Cold War, Middle East, Gas wars, And Iran Hostages. Now surely Senator Obama has a bit better memory than he is showing. And should not stoop to such low levels for political gain.
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And if you really want to see John Edwards excellent record when he was in the Senate 1998-2004
Sense of the Senate for funding lifestyle research for preventative medicine, Children’s Internet Safety Month, Joint Resolution against excessive campaign donations, to protect the civil rights of all Americans, Restrict access to personal health and financial information, provide more effective remedies for victims of sex discrimination in work, provide incentive for fair access to the internet for everyone, require fair availability of birth control, increase the minimum wage (’01), emergency relief for energy costs to small businesses, prohibit use of genetic information to discriminate on health coverage and employment, provide families with disabled children to buy into Medicaid, provide funding to clean up contaminated land, Designating part of ANWR as wilderness, reduce the risk that innocent people be executed, provide for equal coverage for mental health in insurance policies, amend Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from power plants, establish uniform election technology (sponsored by Dodd), Federal Funding to local governments to prosecute hate crimes, reinstate certain Social Security earnings exemptions for the blind, overhaul RR retirement plan to increase benefits, Establish a Nurse recruitment and retention program, amend FDA to provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals, Establish African American Museum within the Smithsonian, Federal funding for research of environmental factors in Breast Cancer, Increase hospital benefits under Medicare, Establish Tariff Quotas on milk protein imports, Federal funding for mental health community education, protect patients in managed care plans (again), establish Office on Women’s Health in HHS, increase the minimum wage, allow media coverage of trials, prohibit racial profiling, improve health care in rural areas, protect consumers in managed care plans, provide adequate insurance coverage for immunosuppressive drugs, provide financial assistance for trade-affected communities, acquisition and improvement of child-care facilities, prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, establish programs to deal with nurse shortage, establish a National Cyber Defense Team to protect the internet’s infrastructure, provide services to prevent family violence, require criminal prosecution for securities fraud, reissuance of a rule on ergonomics, ensure safe pregnancy for all U.S. women, improve investigation and prosecution of rape cases with DNA evidence, improve national drought preparedness, increase the minimum wage (yet again), assistance in containing HIV/AIDS in foreign countries, child care and developmental block grants, provide economic security for America’s workers, enhance security for transporting nuclear waste, increase mental health benefits in health insurance...