Kerry puts Edwards through his paces [this looks great!]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5067113/

From Howard Feinman's perspective it looks like Edwards is getting the hardest look from the Kerry team as a potential VP... Kerry's team has asked Edwards to make a series of appearances for the campaign at a number of events across the country and in battle ground states...

This could be it people!

If these go well Edwards could very well be the guy to get the nod... to which my response is...

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Yeah I'm happy if this is true :) and to be fair the circumstantial evidence would seem to indicate this pretty heavily... YES!

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..LOL :)

Both are excellent choices, IMO.

I myself have long said i have BIG BIG reservations about... Graham,Clark, Gephardt,Graham and Vilsack (in that order)... but maybe I'm being optimistic :) ... hope not... If Edwards gets the nod i will be so enthused about this campaign, I'm a Kerry man anyway... but totally unenthusiastic with Edwards I'm there "front row center" ... :bounce:

with ya!

i love that combo!

...he'll need to be careful though Cheney isn't an idiot... corrupt yes... stupid nah, we're not that lucky he's not Agnew :) but if Edwards has all his wits about him he should win those debates hands down... :)

will avoid debates like the plague! "we are too busy occupying another country to have any more than one debate?!" with time limits and not live on tv, and scripted only! Idiots!

But they'll have to do it... It would look to bad not to... especially after they did it in 2000... the bar was so low for Bush in 2000 he only really needed a cogent sentence to scrape through while Gore had much tougher standards... this time around I don't know what to expect I think three debates will happen (I think the locations already got settled)... Just hoping that there a repeat of Kerry v Weld (thing is i actually liked Weld in that race :) )...

be very prepared as well as good on his/her feet. The Repubs are paying lots of people now to dig up all kinds of obscure stuff to throw at our candidate. Our team needs to anticipate this and be ready with good, pithy, and memorable responses, AND to dig up the goods on our own.

I have no idea what Edwards and Cheney would say to each other, but can you imagine having such a force of pure evil on the same stage with someone with such a good heart?

Would it cause the moral and ethical equivalent of a nuclear explosion?

It'd be like a Buffy the Vampire Slayer season finale.

Senator Sunshine vs the Prince of Darkness...

...its such a classic clash of two figures who embody such diametric opposites and exude such opposing attributes and values...

...To me Edwards is the voice of the "heartland" socially moderate, tolerant people who care about "the little guy" and giving their kids a future and believe that Government can be a force for good ... the same people who Edwards defended as a Lawyer against the Big Corporations...

...Cheney on the other hand is the personification of the "Almighty dollar" the power of capital and wealth... and all thats wrong with the GOP..

...it would be very like one of Edwards court cases with him defending the injured party against the powerful elite... wow thats almost poetic... hell it would make one hell of a film :)

...Cheney six years.

Both started at private colleges and had to transfer to public colleges: Cheney, because he drank his way through an unspectacular couple of semesters at Yale; Edwards because his family couldn't afford to send him to Clemson after he didn't get a football scholarship.

It's an interesting contrast.

Edwards will destroy Cheney but still do it in a very charming way.

They don't like Bush now. They are McCain Republicans from Arizona, but they do like Edwards.
It would not surprise me at all if Edwards would more of these Swing Republicans to Kerry if he was VP.

I do think that you are happy.:) I have been favoring Clark because of national security and experience concerns. Nevertheless, I would be more than happy with Edwards. I would just love to have a Southern candidate on the ticket. I think Edwards would help in all the southern states and border states. Edwards is such a great speaker. Can't you just imagin the speeches that he would be giving during the last 72 hours of the campaign? I do think there was something electric about the final days of his Iowa campaign. After reading this article, I am now convinced that Kerry is strongly leaning towards Edwards. So, I think that you will get to toast and bounce some more.

This is an Edwards speech where he talked openly about his Christian faith. He is a committed Methodist. It was reading this speech that almost convinced me to support him since I am a Christian too. Alas, I had experience concerns. But can't you just see Edwards giving this speech in the Black churches across the South and the country? He would be a good counter to Kerry's more reserved Catholicism. This would play very well in the South and border states and even the midwest Reading this thread made me think of this speech again.
http://edwards.senate.gov/~edwards/press/baptist.html

From the heart.

...reminds me of Jimmy Carter in a way.

This says more than the 13 gazillion the 'Rah rah, go Clark!' posts here at DU ever could or will, about who Kerry's going to choose as his running mate.

It's Edwards--- take it to the bank.

Edwards makes me feel optimistic. He's a good foil for Kerry's more introspective, thoughtful approach.

I don't vote for Prom Kings with no experience.

Sorry.

The two have been vetted already, and both bring something substantial to the ticket.

Are I truly liked them all. I also like Gore, so after he dropped out. I leaned toward Clark and then Edwards. Then I
really listened to Kerry and he became my first pick and then Edwards. ( See what a hard choice it was for me. ) Who ever we get must have a pretty clean, no surprises background. Anyway, here is
my theories... Edwards (first) Clark (second) Dean (third)
If Gore got in the mix it throws me waaaayyyyy off.

Edwards: Young likeable, will be popular with the younger voter.
His non military background will be a stabilizer for the
duo. Has a real human or down to earth touch.


Clark: Likeable, aggressive, fair, tell it like it is...could be
to strong with his military background and Kerrys.
They might look too military aggressive and not Socially balanced with the regular people.


Dean: Likeable, aggressive, Good vote getter, but there is a little of the unknown about his background. The closed files didn't help him. Leaves to much for the Repubs to take advantage of.

Remeber, I like them all and am not bashing anyone.