Leaked internal memo outlines Edwards' Closing Argument: I'm The True Fighter For Middle Class

Note: "Leaked" does not equal unfavorable.

It's the sort of thing the campaigns have been sending out, no? It seems to me I've seen a hundred of these internal memos.

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I am rooting for Edwards so I think it is a good move on Trippi and/or Saunders part.

If it were Hillary's or Obama's campaign "leaking" instead of "releasing" I would think it was evidence that they are worried about their standing in the election and playing a silly trick.

Honesty - it doesn't always make me look good.

Clinton = Bush41 theme. That would look bad in a formal press release.

But it's a very favorable memo, so I don't doubt it was leaked on purpose.

nbd

Good on them. :thumbsup:

That's one pre-conversion stance that really hurt everyone but the rich.

I very much like what Edwards has to say now but, for me, not enough time has elapsed to forget what he said and did before.

indicator of whether someone's changed stance is sincere and will be long-lasting. I am not sure what is, but I don't think time elapsed is necessary or sufficient.

Just a thought.

Unfortunately those "things" (IWR, bankruptcy, free trade with China, etc.) still resonate large for me. That's part of why I'm anxious to "roll the dice" on the new kid.

living in a car.

If I had a dollar for every time Edwards mentioned that his daddy worked in a mill, I'd have almost as much money as Edwards himself.

I had heard that Edwards was abandoning his talk of poverty in favor of Clintonesque talk of the Middle Class and this seems to confirm it.
I guess when it comes down to crunch time, he really needs the votes.

because for him, what he says is more about "how to win" than what he truly believes.

The poor talk worked well to a point.....now the middle class talk will work well to close this deal....with the "we will fight corporation" talk given to excite those for whom neither the poor or the middle class stuff mattered much to. When it comes to the general election "deal", I'm not sure if the "will fight corporation" talk will continue.....and the stuff about the poor most likely has been permanently shelved.

I just don't believe much about any of these Edwards "promises"....cause much of what Edwards professes seem to ring true in a "promise them anything" type of situation.

Promise - then triangulation answers, also that we can go back on, and hold him accountable, unlike some? that think just because there are this or that!!!

He is Staking out positions - others wont! (((some wont even dare! IE The insurance Slime balls, will not be invited to the table))) Poor and Middle class is were I,m at, and most other people i know,sounds good to them.

All candidates try to win.

We can never know if what a candidate says now will change later.

What Edwards is promising us is a fight. That isn't really "promising them anything" and would be a pretty strange way to go about pandering to people. He talks about what we can do together again and again, not what he is going to do for us.

If the poor get shelved, I will be the first and the most vocal to criticize Edwards.

The Edwards talk matters very much to the poor and the working poor, and that is who inspired me to support Edwards.

If you don't trust him, you don't, and I can understand and respect that. But not all of us are naively trusting him, or any person, but see it as a positive and constructive thing that the struggles of the poor and the have-nots are being recognized in the national political discussion for the first time in a long time. If he does nothing else, he has already made an enormous contribution.

I trust what he has already done - focused the discussion on the plight of the have-nots. We can build on that, no matter how his campaign turns out. If we get sold out, at least we will know that we were sold out, and over what. That would be a big improvement over what many other Democratic party politicians have done to us. At least we would know where we stood for a change. Meanwhile, it is powerful and inspiring that people are rallying around his words, and the solidarity and enthusiasm that is being generated can carry us forward in positive new directions with or without any one politician.

That should be trumpeted and posted everywhere.