They Say John Edwards is "Too Angry"

Too angry for what?

Too angry about 200,000 homeless vets sleeping, living and dying under bridges in alleys and on roadways and that our government and society treats them like yesterday's trash after they served this country so honorably?

Too angry that 47 million people in this country have NO healthcare because of the profiteering and brokering of healthcare by big insurance companies?

Too angry that while our polar ice caps melt, our environment burns to a cinder we STILL don't have an energy policy that was NOT written by oil and gas and coal companies and Dick Cheney's friends?

Too angry that our public schools are a crumbling shell and still "No Child Left Behind" wants to PUNISH them because they can't serve to educate our children properly?

Too angry that families have to sweat it from paycheck to paycheck and choose between heat and food while we spend billions on a war based on lies in Iraq and ExxonMobil makes record profits?

Too angry that FAR too many kids can't get a college education and make a decent lives for themselves because their families can't AFFORD it?

Too angry that the poor and elderly have to spend upwards of $400/month ++ for heating oil while George's friends rake in the dough - AND while George cuts heating oil assistance programs?

Too angry for what?

Aren't people who say John Edwards is "too angry" just afraid that when he lifts the skirt on these issues and offers common sense solutions to them that something might CHANGE?

I think so.

TOO ANGRY MY ASS!

John Edwards knows where the bull shit in the buckwheat. And he INTENDS to do something about it. ANY TIME anyone speaks up about injustices in this country - any time anyone points out poverty and abuse, greed and corruption - they get told they are TOO ANGRY.

Too angry FOR WHAT? Too angry NOT to do something to change things?

I think so.

While the other candidates collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from those drug and insurance and oil and gas companies and their lobbyists, and while they publicly and embarrassingly bicker and snub each other, The GROWN UP candidate is out there talking about how to help people in this country whose backs and lives have been broken by corporate greed.

The GROWN UP candidate is out there EVERY DAY speaking for us and trying to be a voice for the voiceless in our government, which means MOST of us here on DU and in this country.

He wants to be our voice. We NEED him to be our voice.

WE NEED TO BE HIS VOICE, too.

Because a vote for John Edwards - is a vote for YOURSELF. Support for John Edwards is support for YOURSELF. That's how it works.

If we abandon John Edwards, we're abandoning OURSELVES.

Think about it.

JRE is the only true progressive candidate for our party left. Please don't abandon the dem party people. Clinton and Obama are centrists that play nice with the repugs to much.

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media use words that frame our candidate.

I am with you on this one.....and I know that all of us who support Edwards, are passionate.

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...it's the corprat entities who benefit so much from the status quo who frame it as "too angry".

It was necessary to use THEIR phrasing to point out that what they REALLY mean when they say it - is that they're afraid John Edwards might CHANGE something. That's why they frame it that way. It's a very deliberate negative definition on their part.

And he WILL change some things. Some REALLY STINKY things that need to be changed.

direction this country is going to take, to get out of mess that this filthy administration has done to this country, it will take all of us to breath life back into this country, the world is watching and waiting.

That is very very clear. In fact, the media's behavior proves Edwards's point. The corporations have a stranglehold on the nation.

John is passionate. K&R

this when you talk to people.

http://www.johnedwards.com/news/20080121-mlk-iii-letter.pdf


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http://www.johnedwards.com/news/20080121-mlk-iii-letter.pdf


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K&R

If your not OUTRAGED, your not paying attention

...but anytime anyone tries to change something (or even points out an injustice) - they get the "too angry" meme.

Heck. I'VE gotten it before.

And what it boiled down to was that I was RIGHT. But that the entity/person was just afraid I'd DO something about it so they attempted to discourage me from that by defining me as "too angry".

Pffft!

I can see right through that rot.

And welcome to DU, foxer!

it is counted though.

..or from supporting him!

Ya'll blog, send emails to friends and family. Talk to anyone who'll listen. Contribute if you can. Volunteer. Phone-bank. Write letters to the editor. Do ONE of these things each day if that's all you have time or money for.

And PESTER THE BEJEESUS out of the damned media!

I have it on my 'to-do' list tonight to send the cretins some more email about ignoring Edwards. Let 'em have it!

Edwards can't speak up for us if we don't speak up for HIM! :D

People who push paperless voting, are the same ones who wouldn't take $5 from an ATM without receipt. Vote should be verifiable. An accountant named Athan Gibbs invented a really nice system, but it seems he ran into a semi after a trade show. (silkwooded?)

If you think it will help clarify things in any undecided's mind, pass it on!

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Excellent post. :thumbsup:

I got my morning cup of joe and I am pumped. :donut:

Great rant. I am with yahs.

I'm on my second cuppa. LOOK OUT!

;)

damn right I am angry.

Just beautiful!

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Now if only people would start voting their conscience instead of worrying about the "Yay team!" mentality...

Why is it people can't see that Obama and Clinton are two sides of the same coin? They have voted the same 94% of the time! And we know how smart the Senate has been about voting! Jeez... frustrating, isn't it? Lead a thirsty horse to water and the stubborn equine still won't drink.

Like when a mother lion comes barreling on to the scene of her cubs getting abused,

THAT'S the kind of anger we're talking about!

..and THIS is one of them.

Sold out phonies who will sell us down the river in a heartbeat while so many will still long for the illusion they uphold.

How many people get the chance to have a position of power as great as a Senator in their life?

Edwards had his chance.

Nice post!

and for those who are not, all I can say is "hope the Kool-Aid was to your liking - would you like another? And please, don't complain when things get even more fucked up."

bill or when the damn oil companies thwart more progress on climate change (if ya didn't vote Edwards....)

And I rec'd you earlier - so here's a kick! :bounce: :kick: and a :woohoo:!

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"Hey, Adolph, how's about you just slaughter 3 million Jews, and we'll shake hands, and the media will applaud our avoidance of polarization and partisanship".

...which is what scares me about Obama - he thinks he's gonna get "bipartisanship" and "compromise" with those murderers and ROBBER BARONS (OR the corporations who are running amok in Washington?)

Urmmm...I think not.

It's long past time that we stopped allowing the MSM to choose our candidates for us...:grr:

...they buy it wholesale and vote accordingly.

Dennis Kucinich said that he hasn't had as many supporters as he would have had because his campaign received no coverage, and now they are trying to do the same thing to John Edwards...:grr:

My mother believes everything that Bill O'Reilly says because she believes it's "the news...":eyes:

Tweety and Wolf set the agenda for who the candidate will be.

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I'm so stoked I'll get to hear/see him live in San Jose on Friday! :bounce:

not everyone can take time off on a Friday morning.... :D

Go Edwards! :kick:

with the word "angry".

We should all be screaming in the streets. I can't imagine anyone feeling o.k. about what has happened to
our country, to our futures and to our values.

How can anyone be "too angry" about this stuff?

Anyone who has the audacity to question the stranglehold of corporate power and the MSM is deemed "too angry"



Makes sense to me!

Hooray for vaguely articulated hope!!!

Plaid Adder mentioned these in her post about "What's Happened to Edwards". Apparently, while talking to her Mom, her Mom used those words to describe Edwards.

Also PA mentioned that people want to believe that class doesn't exist in this country or doesn't matter. But it DOES exist and it does matter. When people like Edwards speak about that and want to do something about it to help people - they get the "too angry", "divisive" and "class warfare" definitions tossed at them.

:wtf: IS WRONG with people? I'll never understand it.

WHAT "REALITY" do they live in?

Why do you hate America, Triana?

And it worked...........The sheep (moderates) bought it and still are!

John Edwards is one of the few politicians whom I have never seen show any anger. Has anyone else seen him angry? Has the word "angry" been re-defined, or something?

...he isn't angry. He's passionate about changing some major stuff that's wrong in this country.

And he's RIGHT about what's wrong.

Those who benefit from what's wrong don't want it changed. So they cook up negative definitions of anyone would dare to challenge the status quo and/or who would dare try to change it.

(and even if he WAS angry, it's well justified!)

I know I'm angry!

and spontaneous :applause: to go with it.

It baffles me that so many are blase' and complacent. John has reawakened my 60's inner child to fight the good fight once again!


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...and look where complacency has gotten us now. (+ two status quo candidates who won't change a damn thing because that's who the corporations that control this country and the media CHOSE FOR US - and we LET them)

That ought to be enough to make anyone ANGRY as hell!

They don't like to be hollered at ---
they just like to drop bombs on Iraq -- at a distance they can't hear!!!

TORTURE people in other countries ---

John Edwards is being sidelined because he is sooooooooooo right!!!

YES. THAT'S IT!

They know he's RIGHT about what's WRONG and they're not about to let him be heard!

Even kindergardeners could figure this out --- !!!

I'M angry. I want my President to be passionate about the injustices right here in America.

As for the media's blackout, let's face it: John challenges corporate greed and lobbyists (and God knows, Big media has a LOT of lobbyists out for their own interests). In addition, there are the millionaire pundits and anchors, who feel threatened by a "class war."

Damn RIGHT it's a class war! And about time, too. I'm tired of seeing mass layoffs while CEOs and CFOs responsible for the sorry state of their companies get multi-million dollar golden parachutes...for massive failure. I'm tired of seeing corporations ship jobs overseas so they can pay minuscule wages. I'm particularly tired of hearing about unions being blamed for it all.

I'll proudly cast my vote for John Edwards on February 12. He speaks for me. And I'll speak for him.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/29/0154/65163

and THIS:

http://blogs.uwnews.org/politics/CategoryView,category,Walter%2BWilliams.aspx

Print 'em up, email 'em out. Pass it on!

John is RIGHT about what's WRONG. And we're not the only ones who've noticed - corprat media be damned.

He is the right candidate for THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES! I want to shout out..........



WAKE-UP DEMOCRATS!


WAKE-UP AMERICA!





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Yet to come in California....That's right...release the prisoners!!!! OMG!



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san francisco gate: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/10/state/n130832S13.DTL&type=politics


All of these articles were found effortlessly!
These are just a few!
Many more thousands are suffering, many not posted, many more to come!


NOW IS THE TIME FOR EDWARDS! NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL!


ALL ARTICLES ARE FROM THIS MONTH ALONE!

I don't want to hear ANY WHINING about NAFTA from Obama or Clinton voters if one of them is the nominee. Because we KNOW that neither of them are going to change a DAMN thing when it comes to NAFTA.

BOTH of them are spittling out of both sides of their mouths about the issue - triangulation/obfuscation/excuses duJour.

Pffffft!

REAL CHANGE is here. IF you want it. Vote EDWARDS.

It would seem the WEALTHIEST 1% are the ones who never seem outraged by the injustice of the poor or middle class. It's just another day, another multi-million dollars in their bank accounts.

Unfortunately they are the very people running everything.

That's what I love about John. He worked as a corporate lawyer and learned how the system operated. He went into private practice to help people who had to fight these corporate lawyers. He knew how the game was played.

He became a US Senator and once again learned how the system operated and how it was rigged against the Americans who vote for representation, but realizing the system was rigged in favor of BIG BIDNE$$.

He wanted to change the system. I don't think he liked what he endured as a Senator from the pressures of the DLC and that group think mentality. I don't think he liked the corporations writing the laws they passed. I think a lot of this experience was a large part of his transformation.

He ran in 04 hoping for the chance to represent ALL Americans. He lost out to the party favorite, which I didn't have a problem with, I still don't, it gave John the experience he needed to ran for POTUS in 08.

But once again he is facing opposition from within the party. They really don't want him in the race. That probably has a lot to do with Edwards not getting coverage.

and several million other folks who've been paying attention.

GREAT POST big R!

hey....i'm concerned, too, about global climate change

part of the problem is continuing global population growth

the carrying capacity of the planet is reaching a limit....we can't keep using resources, engaging in carbon releasing activities, etc.....

is it ethical anymore for couples to have more than two children?

granted the Edwards suffered a terrible tragedy and wanted more kids, partly to honor their son's death

but weren't there other ways to heal their loss? couldn't they have adopted?

it's like the 400 haircut....practice what you preach

Hillobama (one over time, the other as a quick study) have learned to toe the company(town) line.

With Edwards, the DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy is panic-stricken about a second coming of The Interloper From Hoi Polloi.

(Note: The article linked above, though infamous enough to be known by many, is still REQUIRED reading for anyone who wants to understand the politics of the past 15 years. And remember, the Lewinsky outrage was just a smokescreen.)

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GO EDWARDS!!!!!!!!!!

the one who is angry. I AM ANGRY! This is such a distortion of his meaning and intent that it sickens me and makes ME angrier.

it has never seemed to me that Edwards comes off as angry - I only see passion and compassion. The "too angry" smear is a product of the PTB* wanting to write Edwards off - he is threatening to them. Much more than HRC or BHO. IMO.

*Powers That Be

on the backs of the least among us are angry that Edwards is shining the light of day on extreme greed fostered by corporate gangsters and Republicans.
It's really just projection on the part of guys like the toe sucking Dick Morris.
Many of us are angry at them. We're mad as hell...............
John Edwards speaks for me.

Excellent post, Triana. You nailed it. I think it's important for Edwards' supporters to continue to vote for him and not be swayed with rhetoric claiming that he is not going to get the nomination and a vote cast for him is "wasted". What is wasted is a vote for a candidate who panders to the power brokers or is concerned with appeasing the other side of the aisle. We have to send a message that John Edwards speaks for us, and we can do that with our votes. He is continuing to fight for us, and I will continue to fight for him.

Edwards is our last hope now.

If you're not angry, then you're not paying attention.

“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.” Harry S Truman

There is no reason to vote now.