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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:17 PM Original message |
Edwardians, did you write OPs addressing the "phoniness issue" head-on? |
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AndyA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. What, specifically, is Edwards accused of lying about? |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. It's not as explicit as that, because then people would have |
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Der Blaue Engel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
2. I'm confused about why people think Edwards hasn't garnered more support on DU |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. People don't listen. |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. And that whole "trial lawyer" thing is exactly what we NEED right now. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
19. But Myth, they largely looked past that in '04, didn't they? He won SC, and was competitive |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:20 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. The thing that's changed is what he's up against this time. |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. 30 Leading Economists trusting that his is the only plan to get us out of this economic mess |
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Turn CO Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
5. We all should have, but I rarely post OPs. |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
7. I posted about it way back in February here and at DailyKos, calling it the "Gore is a Liar" |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. Yes, there have not been enough John Edwards threads yet. That was clearly the problem. |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. The issue I was addressing was content, not quantity. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Fighting the phoniness issue would have been a losing battle. The problem is one of narrative. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. lol thank you |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
12. No amount of explaining or arguing |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:32 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. See, this is what I'm talking about. Progressive values, hmmm.. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. You're starting to fall into solipsism. The problem is bigger than just his DU support base. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:39 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. You know who also has a 100% NARAL rating? |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 01:48 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Obama also got a 50% rating from a pro-life Illinois group in 2002 |
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Beaverhausen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
13. I don't think it's clear that the reason he doesn't get support is that people don't trust him |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Well, that's a matter of opinion, based on the themes I have seen |
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Beaverhausen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:34 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Are you talking about DU exclusively, or the voting public not trusting him? |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:37 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. DU. |
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Hutzpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Good point, |
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Milo_Bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
22. The problem is his record and platform. |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 01:50 AM Response to Original message |
26. Yes. And we should have responded forecefully to the Obama operative engineered swiftboating of him |
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