Reply #7: I've found the exact opposite to be true. [View All]

The more people find out about Edwards the more they realize why he is such a poor choice and why the Bush supporters and corporate media are salivating for a Kerry/Edwards ticket.

I wonder if the information provided to potential voters included the following information (that Rove and the corporate media would be sure to use if Edwards is VP).

1. The channeling of an unborn child. They will argue that either Edwards is another Democratic kook or snake oil salesman who lied to a jury in closing arguments. She speaks to you through me," the lawyer went on in his closing argument. "And I have to tell you right now — I didn't plan to talk about this — right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/politics/campaign/31EDWA.html?ex=1390885200&en=4fb97ac07a96f186&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND.

2. Phony populist message. His two Americas I feel your pain speech (which is nothing more than recycled campaign rhetoric from other campaigns) does not hold up to scrutiny. The Republicans have long accused the Democrats of being phony defenders of the little guy. They will relish in discussing Edwards ZERO pro bono work and his record. "Edwards, who comes from a state where banking is big business, played a critical role in brokering legislation to allow banks to sell mutual funds and insurance, and to engage in other speculative ventures. This law, worth hundreds of billions to the banks, blasted a gigantic hole in the Glass-Steagal banking law’s firewall of protections designed to prevent the kinds of bank collapses that marked the Great Depression of the ’30s — meaning that it put the money of Joe Six-Pack depositors at risk."
…..Sometimes, the pamphlet contradicts Edwards’ reality. Example: "Some tax lawyers make millions through flimsy letters telling clients how to shelter their income. Edwards will stop these abuses," it claims. But in 1995, Edwards — already a multimillionaire — set up a professional corporation to shelter at least $10 million in legal earnings from having to pay Medicare taxes on them, saving himself some $290,000, according to the News and Observer, which quoted a top specialist from the American Institute of CPAs as labeling this trick "gaming the system." Populist hypocrisy?
(A Populist Make-Over Meet John Edwards, the Corporate Man, http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan04/Ireland0129.htm

3. Rabin who? "One evening while he was campaigning for the Senate in North Carolina, Edwards was faced with a choice of several events he might attend. An advance man suggested, 'Maybe we ought to go to the reception for Leah Rabin.' Edwards responded, 'Who's she?' 'Yitzhak Rabin's widow,' replied the aide. 'Who was he?' asked Edwards" (Charles Peters, Washington Monthly, June 2003). (I can hear it know - The Democrats slammed Bush for not knowing the name of some obscure leader. Edwards didn't even know who Rabin was).

4. Campaign funding raising scandal. "Several newspapers have reported that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has begun a criminal investigation into donations to the Edwards campaign from an Arkansas personal injury law firm. Michelle Abu-Halmeh, a legal assistant at Turner & Associates, told The Washington Post last month that she expected to be reimbursed by her boss for her $2,000 contribution." http://www.hillnews.com/news/050703/edwards.aspx