Read Mythsaje's wonderful defense of Edwards and nominate please!

Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-15-07 05:03 PM
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"Edwards is a big fat poopy head."
Give me a break.

I'm flat tired of some of the hypocritical, low-rent astroturf being posted daily about the Edwards campaign and his positions on the issues. Since entering the race he's been staunchly pro-labor and against the corporatist DC insiders who are currently running things on both sides of the aisle. As much as certain people would like to paint him as some sort of flip flopper, he hasn't changed his positions one iota since throwing his hat into the ring.

It's not as if he's running from one end of the spectrum to the other, depending on which way the polls are leaning from week to week. He took a stance on the progressive, populist side of the stage and isn't budging. So what if the positions he now holds are different than those he seemed to hold four years ago? It isn't four years ago. Things that might not have been so obvious then are achingly clear now.

He was wrong on a lot of things back then, and has stated so in no uncertain terms. The attitude certain people have would lead you to believe that they don't think anyone can possibily have a moment of clarity and a revelation about where America truly needs to go to fix our difficulties. Four months ago it was about his haircut and his house. Now it's degenerated into meaningless drivel about total non-issues.

It's always the same shit with these people. Except for the thing about him being opposed to nuclear energy. THAT was new, but, then again, the person who's harping on that isn't one of the usual suspects.

As for the rest of you--you ain't fooling anyone. When post after post after post is about NOTHING but attacking Edwards and defending Clinton (not that the latter comes across as particularly effective considering the source), most of us recognize when someone has a specific agenda and not much else going on within their tiny minds. I may be anti-Hillary, but at least I have something else to say. A LOT of something else to say, when you get right down to it.

Edwards threatens the status quo the way few other candidates do. He says things no one but Dean and Kucinich has ever been brave enough to say out loud. And, let's face it, Edwards is running a far more effective campaign than DK.

I've been supporting Edwards for quite a while...and these attacks have done nothing to change my mind. I'd hazard a guess that, at this point, only a few people have been swayed by them by now. If any at all.

Edwards is scaring people. And, by my lights, he's scaring the RIGHT people. Hillary scares people too, but she doesn't scare the people I WANT our candidate to frighten.

And that speaks volumes. To ME at least.
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Nicely done. Has this been posted in GDP?