Reply #9: I think we've learned a lot more about Edwards in negative light [View All]

than we have Clinton or Obama.... The media is scared of his message, and I really believe he has had an epiphany, a re-organizing after being out of Washington and working very closely with very poor. If you don't grow a pair after that, then you are a monster.. Bush wouldn't learn.. I think Edwards is open to change and learning. I think he went to Washington and got snowed... he was also from North Carolina, and I will tell you, there were very few people who didn't want the war. It was a different time... and people forget how bad it really was.. there were so few of us... I learned to shut my mouth at certain times.... I think my views led me to losing one of my jobs because I couldn't believe so called educated scientists could actually believe these lies... and it all went downhill from there. If I understand it, you are in VT. Its a different world up there. I was lucky to grow up there... its the reason I can recognize what is so wrong with everywhere else. I was living in Charleston, SC when 9/11 happened. People were scared we would be next... one of the largest arms holding places is outside of Charleston. The next reaction was lets get them back. Conversation was done. Cause, reaction.

Anyway, I think Edwards has learned how it feels to be screwed because he built his career and wasn't handed it or the money. I think he tried to play the D.C. game, but he was expendable. I think between dealing with a wife who has cancer and remembering his roots and working with the poor, he listned, learned, and reached back into his past to do the honorable thing. People change... if they don't, why would we now have 70% of the pop. now against this war. My new neighbor nosed into my politics already, and I found out that most of her children and grandchildren are serving in the military...she wants it over. Who knows where she was back in 02? Kucinich is my favorite.. he's never sold out and always works for the people, but will it be many years of nothing getting done and assassination attempts... Perhaps if Edwards and Kucinich were running mates they'd be in a better position to push a progressive agenda. I have to admit that I was one of those people who said I wish Edwards was the first name on the Kerry/ Edwards ticket. I lived in the south long enough... He's being honest. You can tell when they aren't. He's got his mojo on and he's ready to fight for what is right. I could tell everytime he was faking something back in 04 when he was plugging Kerry. He really didn't want to be his VP, and I could tell.