OFFICIAL "We Love You John Edwards!" Thread

LBJDemocrat

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Sat Aug-09-08 06:50 AM
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OFFICIAL "We Love You John Edwards!" Thread

I say to John Edwards: You're my candidate, and if you ever run again, you'll almost certainly have my vote. You spoke up for the American worker when few would.

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AndyA

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Sat Aug-09-08 06:54 AM
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1. I still love John, but I'm not happy with him right now.

He still has the best plan for America, and he did force Hillary and Barack to open up to new ideas, which they very much needed to do.

Hey, if John McCain is qualified to be President after doing the same thing, so is John Edwards.

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baby_mouse

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Sat Aug-09-08 06:55 AM
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2. Well, I don't have a problem with him.

Private agreements that he may or may not have failed to honour are between him and the people he made the agreement with.

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cali

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Sat Aug-09-08 07:03 AM
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3. centrist and war mongerer. JE did nothing for the American worker

when he had the chance. In his six years in the Senate, he almost never stood with the real liberals and progressives like Russ Feingold and Pat Leahy.

He won't ever run for any national office again.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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LBJDemocrat

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Sat Aug-09-08 07:06 AM
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4. He did more than Obama has

"Overheated campaign rhetoric." Enough said.

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cali

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Sat Aug-09-08 07:08 AM
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5. really? What did he do? And this isn't about Obama. It's about

Edwards. He's a phony through and through. There's a reason that the real liberals and progressives who served with him in the Senate didn't endorse him.

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LBJDemocrat

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Sat Aug-09-08 07:13 AM
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6. He made labor rights an issue

Similarly to how William J. Bryan made free silver an issue. Similarly to how Ross Perot made protection of American jobs an issue, even though he never held public office.

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cali

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Sat Aug-09-08 07:15 AM
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7. not while he was in the Senate he didn't.

He was absent on those issues when he could have stood up and made a difference. He certainly was NOT any kind of a leader on labor rights while in the Senate. Bernie Sanders has done a thousand times more for labor and the American worker, than little Johny.

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MannyGoldstein

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Sat Aug-09-08 07:47 AM
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10. He Was Not Absent At All

Edited on Sat Aug-09-08 07:54 AM by MannyGoldstein

He was *there*, and voted *for* the Bankruptcy "Reform" Act, NAFTA, almost-free trade with China...

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B Calm

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Sat Aug-09-08 07:19 AM
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8. I still think he was the best candidate. He spoke for the working man

and the rest didn't!

When I was 37 years old I strayed with another gal. Somehow our marriage survived my insanity and thanks to a forgiving wife, 20 years later we're still married. I forgive John, do you?

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MannyGoldstein

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Sat Aug-09-08 07:45 AM
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9. He Spoke For The Working Man On The Stump

But mot at his hedge fund that specialized in backing companies whose business model was predatory lending.

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