John Edwards: "SILENCE IS A BETRAYAL"!

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IS and should be.


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Well John how are we supposed to pay for that after the trillions that will be spent on the Iraq Debacle. Not to mention the grand Iran Adventure you seem to support.

If this non-binding resolution passes, with the main concern not being the welfare of the troops, but avoiding embarassing Bush, then the Democrats will be shown to be weak.

And the Repubs will use this to their advantage come 2008.

It IS disgusting. The surge is ON. Iran most likely on too. Get this Administration and the CYA Dems out. Period.

he chose to ignore them, wouldn't even give them an audience. It takes a lot of gall to invoke the image of fallen soldiers when he played a part in sending them there.

Edwards says it is time for political courage. What is courageous about espousing the results of the latest polls. The time for political courage was when he opted to CO-SPONSOR and vote for the IWR. What a phony.

how many of the Democratic Presidential Candidates didn't do just as he did FOUR years ago? - He apologized in 2005 and I for one, am willing to let it go and let them (all of them) move forward.

New word for me.

co-sponsor the IWR (and is cheerleading for an Iran adventure) will really get this country far?

next commander-in-chief? That's really taking responsibility for your actions. But what the heck, the war has given some great images for Edwards to use in his campaign speech.

With your approach, what message will that send to future elected officials - if there is a war - vote for it (heck you can even co-sponsor it and be front and center cheerleading it on). Then if it's a debacle and support for the war plummets to an all time low you can come out and apologize for your vote and all will be forgiven (what's trillions of dollars borrowed and wasted,and thousands dead and injured).

I guess all of the people directly impacted by this war should just suck it up and easily move forward.

line stance, then pick one of these and convince them to run if Rep Dennis Kucinich is not your choice because he's the only one out of this whole group that's running.

Alabama Rep Earl Hilliard

Arizona Rep Ed Pastor

Arkansas Rep Vic Snyder

California Sen Barbara Boxer- Rep Joe Baca- Rep Xavier Becerra- Rep Lois Capps- Rep Gary Condit- Rep Susan Davis- Rep Anna Eshoo- Rep Sam Farr- Rep Bob Filner- Rep Mike Honda- Rep Barbara Lee- Rep Zoe Lofgren- the late Rep Robert Matsui- Rep Juanita Millender-McDonald- Rep George Miller- Rep Grace Napolitano- Rep Nancy Pelosi- Rep Lucille Roybal-Allard- Rep Loretta Sanchez- Rep Hilda Solis- Rep Pete Stark- Rep Mike Thompson- Rep Maxine Waters- Rep Diane Watson- Rep Lynn Woolsey

Colorado Rep Diana DeGette- Rep Mark Udall

Connecticut Rep Rosa DeLaura- Rep John Larson- Rep James Maloney

Florida Sen Bob Graham- Rep Corinne Brown- Rep Alice Hastings- Rep Carrie Meek

Georgia Rep John Lewis- Rep Cynthia McKinney

Hawaii Sen Daniel Akaka- Sen Daniel Inouye- Rep Neil Abercrombie

Illinois Sen Dick Durbin- Rep Jerry Costello- Rep Danny Davis- Rep Lane Evans- Rep Luis Gutierrez Rep Jesse Jackson, Jr- Rep Bill Lipinski- Sen Bobby Rush- Rep Jan Schakowsky

Indiana Rep Julia Carson- Rep John Hostettler- Rep Pete Viscloskey

Iowa Rep Jim Leach

Maine Rep Tom Allen- Rep John Baldacci

Maryland Sen Barbara Mikulski- Sen Paul Sarbanes- Rep Benjamin Cardin- Rep Elijah Cummings- Rep Connie Morella

Massachusetts Sen Ted Kennedy- Rep Michael Capuano- Rep Bill Delahunt- Rep Barney Frank- Rep Jim McGovern- Rep Richard Neal- Rep John Olver- Rep John Tierney

Michigan Sen Carl Levin- Sen Debbie Stabenow- Rep David Bonior- Rep John Conyers, Jr- Rep John Dingell- Rep Dale Kildee- Rep Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick- Rep Sandy Levin- Rep Lynn Rivers- Rep Burt Stupak

Minnesota Sen Mark Dayton- the late Sen Paul Wellstone- Rep Betty McCollum- Rep Jim Oberstar- Rep Martin Olav Sabo

Mississippi Rep Bennie Thompson

Missouri Rep William Clay, Jr- Rep Karen McCarthy

New Jersey Sen Jon Corzine- Rep Rush Holt- Rep Robert Menendez- Rep Frank Pallone, Jr- Rep Donald Payne

New Mexico Sen Jeff Bingaman- Rep Tom Udall

New York Rep Maurice Hinchey- Rep Amo Houghton- Rep John LaFalce- Rep Gregory Meeks- Rep Jerrold Nadler- Rep Major Owens- Rep Charles Rangel- Rep Jose Serrano- Rep Louise Slaughter- Rep Edolphus Towns- Rep Nydia Velaquez

North Carolina Rep Eva Clayton- Rep David Price- Rep Melvin Watt

North Dakota Sen Kent Conrad

Ohio Rep Sharrod Brown- Rep Stephanie Tubbs Jones- Rep Marcy Kaptur- Rep Dennis Kucinich- Rep Thomas Sawyer- Rep Ted Strickland

Oregon Sen Ron Wyden- Rep Earl Blumenauer- Rep Peter DeFazio- Rep Darlene Hooley- Rep David Wu

Pennsylvania Rep Robert Brady- Rep William Coyne- Rep Mike Doyle- Rep Chaka Fattah

Rhode Island Sen Lincoln Chaffee- Sen Jack Reed- Rep James Langevin

South Carolina Rep Gresham Barrett- Rep James Clyburn

Tennessee Rep John Duncan, Jr

Texas Rep Lloyd Doggett- Rep Charles Gonzalez- Rep Ruben Hinojosa- Rep Sheila Jackson-Lee- Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson-Rep Ron Paul- Rep Silvestre Reyes- Rep Ciro Rodriguez

Vermont Sen Jim Jeffords- Sen Patrick Leahy- Rep Bernie Sanders

Virginia Rep Jim Moran- Rep Bobby Scott

Washington Sen Patty Murray- Rep Jay Inslee- Rep Rick Larsen- Rep Jim McDermott

Washington DC Rep Brian Baird

West Virginia Sen Robert Byrd- Rep Alan Mollohan- Rep Nick Rahall

Wisconsin Sen Russ Feingold- Rep Tammy Baldwin- Rep Jerry Kleczka- Rep David Obey

That's where Dems need courage most these days.

If, as a party, we stand for what we say we do, this is the fight that needs to be fought and we will rise to it.

and my support.

It was the speech of a life time. Magnificant! Regal! Humble! Worthy and Human.

I am logging onto Edwards's website and giving him money. Now.

I am overhwhelmed with his class and conviction and determination. He is not fooling around. He is one serious man, and I love him all the more for it.

I was crying too. It doesn't have to be that way.

He sure seemed to have a lot of support in that audience, didn't he? He's right, all the dark things going on now...it doesn't have to be like that.

:applause:

Julie

the speech had already started, but I have to say it was electrifying and I was weeping too! I love this man!

injury attorney. Obama definitely came of as more authentic (of course authenticity is Edwards new buzz word). Though, if you are authentic and real do you really need to tell people that you are?

know we forgive babyface because he really means what he says unlike that woman ...

camera turned to the audience and I saw people nodding to each other.

Well-honed speech. At my house we loved the passages about workers and health care.