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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:08 PM
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Edwards would be an awful pick for AG
The Attorney General of the United States is supposed to be an unbiassed prosecutor. Edwards has been a civil suit lawyer... Secy of HEW, maybe... maybe interior orany other high up cabinet position, i am fine with.. but AG, the chief law enforcement officer in the world, i'd prefer someone out of the politicl arena, like patrick fitzgerald...

just my humble opinion
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:09 PM
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1. Yah... fighting for people with no other means to seek redress, rather than defending deep pockets..
What a fucking asshole Edwards is.
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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:12 PM
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5. Thanks, of course your right. We can't have anyone who does good.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:15 PM
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9. Yeah, he is. He ought to be SPANKED.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:18 PM
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11. ...and, dear God, let us all pray that he doesn't enjoy it.
n/t.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:20 PM
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13. That's sfexpat's job.
:P
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:54 PM
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20. Yeah we should follow tradition: he should be somebody non-biased
like John Mitchell or Edwin Meese or John Ashcroft.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 10:18 AM
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37. Whilst deepening his own pockets.
Edwards fans who constantly harp that he took these cases altruistically are fooling themselves.

He took these cases to get rich.

As a personal injury attorney, he has no working Constitutional Law knowledge (outside what he learned in school years ago) and would be better off actually working to do what he says he's been doing - helping the poor. And he should do it pro bono, something he never did as an attorney.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:11 PM
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2. omg "A civil lawyer"! what a nerve!
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:11 PM
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3. Restoring the Constitution. You are right -- lets get a Fortune 500 guy on it.
:thumbsup:
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:12 PM
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4. Since What Is Needed, Sir, Is Someone Who Would Put Fear Into Corporate Criminals
A skilled plaintiff's lawyer would be an ideal choice for the position....

"Our modern corporations have neither souls to be damned nor bodies to be kicked."
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:13 PM
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6. Well done, sir.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:19 PM
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12. And I believe Edwards could do just that...
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 01:34 AM
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24. Indeed. John has put the fear of God into major corporate wrongdoers.
He understands how law interfaces with society, and would be an excellent choice for AG.

He might be able to put a stop to the Republican practice of suppressing the vote.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 10:19 AM
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38. No he didn't.
He was all talk and they knew it.

In fact, the only person who ran who might have scared the corporate powers that be, slightly, was Kucinich.

Did you ever actually look at Edwards' record?
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 05:51 AM
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27. Exactly so, and quite well stated! nm
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DemVet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 06:02 AM
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29. If I were a lawyer facing Edwards, knowing his past, I'd...
...be laughing myself silly with joy.
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 09:24 AM
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30. Care To Share Details, Sir?
"Enquiring minds want to know."
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theboss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 09:46 AM
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33. The AG doesn't prosecute cases
So...there you go.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:13 PM
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7. i regret my support for edwards -- but he would be a great AG.
he's diligent -- hard working -- as lawyer he knows how to be unbiased -- and frankly i'd like to see an unabashed dem in that seat.
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yodermon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:14 PM
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8. Plaintiff's attorneys are kinda like prosecutors.
I think it'd be a good fit.
Fitzgerald would be a Fantastic fit though, of course.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:17 PM
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10. IMO you cannot be a prosecutor anywhere without being enmeshed in
the political milieu of that city / state / county /etc.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:20 PM
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14. Bush appointed three monsters to the AG post. Alberto Gonzalez, who
Edited on Wed May-28-08 11:21 PM by Old Crusoe
advocated torture, and before him, fundie nutbag (and former presidential candidate) John Aschroft.

And finally the current miserable excuse for an Attorney General.

A Democratic administration would likely mean a huge improvement over any one of those three, nevermind ALL three, and that would be at the LEAST of our bench for the appointment. We could fill that post with dozens and dozens of wildly qualified people, of which IMO John Edwards would be absolutely terrific.
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LordJFT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 01:30 AM
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23. oh c'mon Gonzales was unbiased
:eyes:
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Stop Cornyn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:20 PM
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15. For God's sake, let's make damn sure there is no one interested in justice at the Dep't of Justice
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:24 PM
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16. Can't we wait to fight about this until after we've finished fighting with the HIllbots?
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:29 PM
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17. There's a lot of corporate butt that needs to be brought back in line
And Edwards is the perfect person for it. And what makes you think that he would be biased? Most attorneys have worked on both sides of the bar in their careers. For what it's worth, they have a code of ethics to zealously represent their clients. And the client would be us. I'm good with that.
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FredScuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:30 PM
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18. Yeah! Let's get Spitzer!
Oh, wait a minute...

:eyes:
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:33 PM
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19. I agree. Not sure what the disconnect here is.
Law is law (not justice). He would be better at changing law to make it more just, rather than bending/using law to enforce his perception of justice.
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 01:26 AM
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21. What is HEW? Do you mean HHS or Education? nt
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Yukari Yakumo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 04:19 AM
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25. HUD? Labor? {nt}
uguu
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 01:29 AM
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22. Edwards would be a great choice for AG. His experience is the reason.
You apparently know nothing about the practice of law, trying cases, or the role of the Attorney General in the United States.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 05:22 AM
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26. Disagree
The AG job is to determine what crimes the federal government prosecutes.

I believe Edwards has the judgement for that.
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 06:00 AM
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28. What an RTP. nt
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 09:26 AM
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31. I have my doubts about Fitzgerald. I don't think he went after
the administration as hard as he could have on the Plame case.
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newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 09:47 AM
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34. Scotty the Duck's confessions in his book would pretty much confirm that
Fitz wasn't the guy that a lot of people here thought he was.
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 10:00 AM
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35. It's abundantly clear that not all of those culpable for the crimes
were punished in any way.

Fitzgerald picked the low-hanging fruit, the ones that the administration were willing to...

(damn, my vow to abstain from 'throw-under-the-bus' cliches is inconvenient)
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 09:43 AM
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32. Fighting for ordinary citizens against corporations is exactly the kind of bias we need...
...after decades of being ruled by corporatists eager to "compromise" with Big Money.
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Exultant Democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 10:15 AM
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36. Of course the last thing we need these days is an effective AG to take on big business
the last thing we would want is Obama to be the next TR, then he might save the country or something silly like that.
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