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The Wrath of John

Trailing his rivals, Edwards has injected urgency into his bid.

By Holly Bailey | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Nov 26, 2007

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  • Posted By: jamster800 @ 11/24/2007 4:49:57 PM

    Well said CKF0921

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/25/2007 4:30:14 PM

      CKF0921 and jamster800, thanks for your pro-Edwards campaign advertisements. Next time don't omit the "Paid for by Edwards for 2008 campaign" line when you post political advertisements for the Socialist and Populist John Edwards who represents the leftist moveon.org wing of the Democrat Party..

  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 1:50:34 PM

    The people of North Carolina do not support Edwards. In 2004 Edwards could not help Kerry carry his home state of North Carolina. If Edwards had been able to help Kerry carry North Carolina, the results would have been different. If the people of Edwards home state of North Carolina don't support him, the rest of America should be asking why so that they don't make a mistake by supporting Edwards in 2008.

    • Posted By: sarahjaneASU @ 11/19/2007 3:09:53 PM

      How can you speak for all of North Carolina? There are plenty of us here who support Edwards, especially at my University. The democrats I meet from NC who support Hilary usually have nothing to say when asked 'why?' . Our state is also made up of mostly ignorant republicans and rich democrats..... I'm glad you feel like posting on here 20 times gives you the right to answer for all North Carolinians.

      • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 3:14:59 PM

        You missed my point. A majority of North Carolinians voted against Edwards and Kerry in 2004. If Edwards would have been popular enough in North Carolina to help Kerry carry North Carolina. The results of the 2004 presidential election could have been different. Edwards was not popular enough in North Carolina to carry the State of North Carolina for Kerry in 2004. Those are the facts.

        • Posted By: sarahjaneASU @ 11/19/2007 3:20:29 PM

          Yeah well look how good that did us.

          • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 3:59:30 PM

            It did us a lot of good. It kept the left wing Socialist and Populist Edwards from being able to damage this country. To pay for his Socialist and Populist promises will bankrupt the middle class, wealthy, and the government. Edwards is campaigning on an idea of Robin Hood with robbing the middle class and the wealthy to give the poor the payment for electing Edwards so that he can fulfill his promises to them.

            • Posted By: sarahjaneASU @ 11/19/2007 5:41:13 PM

              You must be one of those ignorant, wealthy North Carolinians. And as far as the middle class goes, I don't believe his goal is to do anything but positive things for the middle class....... he would do a lot more for them than Hilary. You mustn't be so brainwashed dear.

              • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 9:32:32 AM

                College kids who are still mooching off of their parents shouldn't be allowed to participate in the discussion of taxes and policy and how they affect those who are working. It's said that the first pay stub creates a lot of republicans when the idealistic young person first sees how much they are taxed by our government to fund socialist programs including the wealth transfer program known as welfare.

                • Posted By: CLF0921 @ 11/24/2007 4:04:34 PM

                  Not all college kids are "mooching" off their parents, and that comment right there shows just how uneducated and stereotypical you are. I worked full time all the way through college and paid for every penny of my master's degree by myself - tuition, books, room and board, living expenses... I worked for all of it and many other college students do the same. Likewise not all people on welfare are "able bodied people that should be out working." Some people do abuse welfare and welfare reform does need to take place in order to fix that, but you can't stereotype every person on welfare nor every college student. And as for John Edwards spending $400 for a haircut and having a 6 million dollar home, he earned his money and has the right to spend it as he wishes. John Edwards points out that he grew up poor not to deny that he is rich, but to prove the point that some poor people are willing to work hard to better themselves and to no longer be poor. He shouldn't have to be ashamed of, or apologize for, the fact that he started off poor, got an education, worked hard at a good job, and is now rich. Can you name a single poor president in the history of the United States? You do not have to be poor in order to care for the poor. I work in the healthcare system (with the degree that I paid for by myself) and I am frustrated every day by individuals who abuse the welfare system, but I am even more frustrated by the fact that I see so many people that truly need help and deserve it and our country has none to offer them. We need a president that is willing to work hard to make big changes.

                  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/25/2007 4:28:32 PM

                    We don't need a president who's proposing billion of dollars of Socialist and Populist programs to pay the poor to vote for him. The taxes needed to pay for those programs will bankrupt the middle class and the government.

                  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/25/2007 4:27:30 PM

                    CFL0921, Edwards got his fortune through questionable tactics as a trial lawyer. He once claimed that he was channeling a dead person in court to try and get the jury to support his client.

                  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/25/2007 4:26:24 PM

                    John Edwards lies by omission. He didn't grow up poor. He tells us that his Dad worked his entire life in the mill to let us know that he has blue collar roots. What Edwards doesn't tell us is that his father was a manager in the mill. When you know the entire story, Edwards doesn't come from the blue collar roots that he leads us to believe. In fact he grew up far from being poor.

                  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/25/2007 4:23:40 PM

                    CLF0921, take a ride though the poor portion of any city in America and you will see a lot of able body individuals who are on government assistance standing around on the street corner and sitting on the porch. With the number of able body people that you see during your drive, the perception is that a large percentage of those on government assistance shouldn't be their and they should have a job.

                  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/25/2007 4:21:31 PM

                    Yes, some college kids earn their own way. The majority are on scholarships, grants, and support from mommy and daddy. You missed my point, college kids don't have a grasp on politics and how the socialist and populist programs (like Edwards is proposing) which require a tax increase affect them until they go to work and see that they have about over 25% of their check stolen by the government .

            • Posted By: sarahjaneASU @ 11/19/2007 5:37:58 PM

              Sorry you hate poor.

              • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 9:34:17 AM

                Don't hate the poor. I dislike Socialists and Populists like Edwards who advocates taxing the middle class and the wealthy to transfer wealth to the poor who sit around and don't work while drawing a welfare check. Take a drive during the day through a poor area and you will see lots of able bodied people that should be out working. They can't take the same jobs that illegal aliens take.

                • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/20/2007 1:02:11 PM

                  I think "tarheelsnotforedwards" is actually Karl Rove or Lynn Cheney they both have a lot of time to waste repeating Republican Mantra.

                  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 2:01:34 PM

                    I have as much free time as those on this board who are blindly following Edwards without looking at the history of who and what he is.

                    • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/20/2007 3:04:39 PM

                      OOOOOOoooo good comeback. I've met John Edwards. I believe in his theory of two Americas one for the rich and one for the rest. Who do you support? why hate on John so much?

                      • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 4:32:02 PM

                        There are actually three Americas. The one the rich lives in, the one the rest of us live in, and the one that John Edwards lives in with $400 haircuts and 6 million dollar estates.

        • Posted By: sarahjaneASU @ 11/19/2007 3:34:21 PM

          You must remember that North Carolina is a Republican state. In 2004 many republicans still wanted Bush in office and I don't believe that any VP runner under Kerry would of changed NC vote to democratic. We were lucky to have Edwards, well any liberal in office for us. I actually know many republicans turn democrats in NC this year, most them voting for Hilary of course, but atleast we have the chance to turn 'blue'. (sorry for posting twice about the same thing though, whoops)

          • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 3:44:29 PM

            You're wrong again. North Carolina is a Democrat State. The Governor and all of the state leadership is Democrat. The majority is both houses of the state legislature is Democrat. Edwards is a loser that's out of touch with the majority of Democrats in the Democrat state of North Carolina.

    • Posted By: sarahjaneASU @ 11/19/2007 3:16:36 PM

      There are plenty of North Carolinians who support John Edwards, many being on my University campus. He is passionate, compelling, and has what it takes to get rid of corruption in our system. The democrats I have met in NC who support Hilary can never answer 'why' and basically know nothing about politics or our gov't today. The truth is they mainly make up the wealthy democrats in NC who tend to party with the ignorant republicans. Please don't think that by posting on here that you speak for every ong in the state of NC.

      • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 3:55:13 PM

        You're wrong again. North Carolina is a Democrat State. The Governor and all of the state leadership is Democrat. The majority is both houses of the state legislature is Democrat. Edwards is a loser that's out of touch with the majority of Democrats in the Democrat state of North Carolina.

  • Posted By: kcopley @ 11/23/2007 1:43:20 PM

    VOTE RON PAUL VOTE RON PAUL VOTE RON PAUL

  • Posted By: kcopley @ 11/23/2007 1:42:40 PM

    VOTE RON PAUL VOTE RON PAUL VOTE RON PAUL

  • Posted By: dchappy@hotmail.com @ 11/22/2007 5:36:11 AM

    EDWARD IS A LIAR, HYPOCRITE, SELFISH, UNMANNERED, OPPURTUNISTS FINALLY A MOTHLY PAID AGENT OF ""MOSAD" ANY ONE SUPPORTING HIM IS A TRAITOR NOTHING SHORT OF IT. D C HAPPY

  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/21/2007 1:33:30 PM

    It's simple.

    Round up all of the illegal aliens and deport them. Then force able bodied people who don't have jobs on government assistance to take the jobs that the illegal aliens use to have and take away their government assistance.

    You can drive through poor areas during the day and see lots of able bodied people sitting on porches and standing around. Let's force them to take a job and then take away their government assistance.

    This will save the government a significant amount of money and reduce the taxes for those who work for a living instead of sitting around on their behinds.

  • Posted By: natdan @ 11/21/2007 11:32:40 AM

    Unbeliavable, it just puzzles my mind to see how little the american voters have learned after seven years of republican dirty politics. There is an unbelievable amount of ignorance that conduce people to think that by being straight forward Edwards could hurt himself. If he doet it will not be because what he says, it will be because writters like yourself are not educating the readers and showing them how truthful Edwards remarks are; it is just easier to play politics and comment only that him being honest and direct could hurt him when is actually the american people who is getting hurt, Clinton does not represent the educated voter
    and like Bush is just a dangerous candidate because the american people through articles like this are being told that an aggressive candidate is worst then a lobby money taker candidate is. When are you going to educate the readers by presenting the facts of what the candidates are saying?

  • Posted By: CivilServantBradley @ 11/20/2007 7:10:36 PM

    Dear "tarheelsarenotforedwards",

    With all of the time you've spent trolling this comment board, you might have actually been able to do something productive with your time, like volunteer at a shelter, or plant some trees. Maybe taken a disadvantaged kid to a basketball game. We get it. You don't like Edwards. Please move on. You're not going to convince anyone here of anything, just as nobody else's words are getting through to you.

    Thank you.

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 7:48:04 PM

      Shame you don't like hearing other viewpoints. We only learn when we listen to others. Unfortunately the Edwards camp appears to be a narrow minded group of individuals who don't want to listen to the ugly truth from a North Carolinian that suffered through the six years of Edwards Senate career that did nothing for the people of North Carolina while Edwards campaigned for President during those six years.

  • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/19/2007 7:24:30 PM

    I like it. If John Kerry had let John Edwards attack more of Ohio would have awoken too the fact that George Bush should not be the leader of a new world order. The kyoto protocol would be signed. Hillary would be going for senate Majority leader and Barrack Obama would be thinking of 2012.

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 9:24:21 AM

      If Edwards had helped Kerry carry his home state of North Carolina and other Southern states, Ohio would have been a moot point. Edwards is unpopular in his home state of North Carolina. If the people of North Carolina don't support Edwards, the rest of the country should be asking why before they support him and make a big mistake.

      • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/20/2007 12:39:45 PM

        Unfortunately North Carolina hasn't gone democratic since 1976. I doubt that NC or SC will give EdwardsClintonObama any of the combined 23 electoral votes in the next election. The fact is that "TarheelsarenotforDemocratsinPresidentialelections" the state is still pretty rural. If you look at Wake and Mecklenburg counties you'll see that they indeed vote against George Bush overwhelmingly.

        • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 1:47:27 PM

          You're wrong again. North Carolina is a Democrat State. The Governor and all of the state leadership is Democrat. The majority is both houses of the state legislature is Democrat. Edwards is a loser that's out of touch with the majority of Democrats in the Democrat state of North Carolina.

          • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/20/2007 2:06:57 PM

            History of North Carolina Electoral votes: 2004 Bush, 2000 Bush, 1996 Dole, 1992 Bush, 1988 Bush, 1984 Reagan, 1980 Reagan, 1976 Carter was the last democratic candidate voted for by the great state of North Carolina. Theodore Roosevelt was so out of touch with members of his own party that he formed a third political party (Bull Moose). The North Carolina General Assembly is not an accurate example of how the statevotes in presedential elections

            • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 2:10:55 PM

              Wow, the Democrat presidential candidates since 1980 must be real losers seeing that the state votes Democrat at the state level including the Governor of the State of North Carolina. I guess after voting for the loser Carter in 1976, the state got burned on voting for Democrat Presidential candidates. Seeing that Edwards is a bigger loser than Carter, the state will vote Republican if Edwards is nominated.

              • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/20/2007 2:42:20 PM

                Finally you are having an "Aha" experience, it doesn't matter that "tarheelsarenotforedwards" because North Carolina will vote for the Republican candidate based on historical political data. Raleigh is different than Washington D.C. and so are the democrats. My point is when John Edwards attacks he wins. He's got so much to be wrathful about, Energy crisis, inflation, unequal health care system, Iraq, the most spendinghistory of the United States, unbalanced budget, Cancer and numerous other pressing issues that only a great leader will succeed against. I know so much corn on the cob can become tastless but keep going for it John!!!!!!!!!!!!11

                • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 2:50:08 PM

                  What you said was that the Democrat Presidential candidates are such losers that they can't win in a state that has a Democrat Governor and leadership along with the Democrat controlled state legislature. Edwards was such a loser in 2004 that he couldn't help Kerry carry his democrat controlled home state of North Carolina. Democrat presidential candidates can't win in democratic controlled North Carolina.

                  • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/20/2007 3:12:22 PM

                    Two words, Dorthea Dix..... check yourself in today, hopefully with enough electroshock therapy you'll be out by next thanksgiving. John Edwards will be the next President-elect by then.

                    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 4:44:41 PM

                      Edwards socialist and populist agenda goes against the American work ethic of work hard and you'll get ahead. In Edwards world, it's don't work, be poor and be on welfare and we'll take the assets of those who work hard and give them to you. Edwards Socialist and Populist agenda goes against the American Dream unless you're poor, you don't work, and you're on welfare.

                    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 4:42:35 PM

                      If that happens, the country will need electroshock to get over the damage done by the Edwards Socialist and Populist agenda that's designed to take from those that earn an income and give to the poor that doesn't earn an income. Edwards is preparing to give away to the country to the poor that don't work because he's hoping they will get him elected.

  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 2:07:44 PM

    It's a shame that the Edwards campaign is convincing the poor to give what little they can afford to support his campaign. John Edwards is a mult-millionaire who gets $400 haircuts and lives in a 6 million dollar home. Yet he's begging the poor to spend the last of what they can afford to support him.

    • Posted By: vacillate @ 11/20/2007 2:03:44 AM

      Can't rich people care about the poor? That's what the Republicans try and say, It's called "trickle down theorom" the rich get fat and the poor get to live off their crumbs.

      • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 9:29:50 AM

        Edwards is advocating the transfer of wealth from those who earn it to those who sit back and collect a welfare check while living in public housing and popping out babies like a gumball machine. Take a drive through poor areas during the day and you will see lots of able bodied people who should be out working in jobs that the illegal aliens are now working.

        • Posted By: vacillate @ 11/20/2007 2:20:32 PM

          You are a bigot.

          • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 2:31:12 PM

            Obviously I've won this debate since you've resorted to name calling instead of debating the issue.

          • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 2:30:38 PM

            I'm not a bigot, I'm just honestly discussing what I see in this world.

        • Posted By: vacillate @ 11/20/2007 2:22:25 PM

          There are no jobs. They've been shipped overseas.

          • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 2:30:00 PM

            There are jobs for those who aren't working and on welfare. Look at the landscaping companies, lawn mowing services, construction companies, etc... Every crew is composed of illegal aliens who can't speak English. We need to deport all of these illegal aliens and force able bodied people on Welfare who aren't working to take these jobs. It will save the country a small fortune in reduced welfare payments.

  • Posted By: larr999777 @ 11/19/2007 5:53:31 PM

    John Edwards is the only choice for real change in America. The average American does not realize that without someone who is free from the special intrest .coporations and lobbist their will be no real change.The middle class and the poor will continue to decline.

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 9:25:49 AM

      Edwards isn't free from special interests, corporations, and lobbyists. Most of Edwards large cash donations in 2004 and 2008 have come from trial lawyers. The trial lawyers are supporting Edwards so that tort reform doesn't happen ending their parasitic attack on America.

      • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/20/2007 12:42:14 PM

        Only congress will legislate tort reform not the next President.

        • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 1:48:50 PM

          But the President can veto it. That's what Edwards is being paid to not do by the trial lawyers.

          • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/20/2007 2:24:17 PM

            And Congress can override a veto, just like it did last week with the Water bill. The point is Tort reform is not on the agenda. Where are your facts? Who is demanding tort reform? not the public, and certainly not Tarheels from North Carolina. John Edwards is welcome change in the world inside the beltway D.C. politics. Go for it John!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

            • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 2:27:54 PM

              The republicans have proposed Tort reform during the last eight years. The trial lawyer lobby was able to get enough Democrats to go against it to keep it from being an issue in Congress.

  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 1:49:05 PM

    Be careful of Edwards. He lies by omission. He tells us that his father worked in a mill all of his life to show us that he has blue collar roots and values. What Edwards forgot to tell us is that his father was a manager in the mill. This changes the perception that we have of Edwards concerning his blue collar roots and values.

    • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/20/2007 1:09:21 PM

      I would hope that if he worked in the Mill all his life that he would have been promoted to manager. Being a manager at a textile mill is very blue collar. What did the grandson of Prescott Bush omit about the Iraq war? WMD's ,Yellow cake uranium from Nigeria, The Iraqi people would welcome us, the war would be entirely financed from Iraqi oil revenue.

      • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 2:02:37 PM

        He was a manager, not a blue collar worker. I've been around several mills in North Carolina. The managers wear white shirts and ties and stay in their offices other than to go out and harass the workers in the mill.

  • Posted By: dclgirl01 @ 11/19/2007 2:21:36 PM

    TO : tarheelsarenotforedwards

    Any person that goes on the way you do is over the edge in my book.

    With that said, I wonder what the cost was of the suit Hilary's wore the other night at the debate? or how much does she spend on her haircut? Whenever people go on about stupid stuff like that it's a sure thing for me that they can't discuss the real issues. Just smoke and mirrors.

    Edwards/Obama....

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 2:25:12 PM

      The difference is that Hillary doesn't claim to be from poor roots and the only hope of poor people while getting $400 haircuts and living in a 6 million dollar house. Edwards is a hypocrite that wants to deny that he is rich.

      • Posted By: the_mayor @ 11/20/2007 12:51:49 PM

        Leading the center of Poverty at UNC is not hypocritical. Every Candidate running for President is rich compared to 98% of America. Wow! news flash I never heard that $400 haircut comment. I wonder how much Hillary pays her hairdresser to dye those roots? Anyway, I say good for those individual hairdressers its a free market economy.

        • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 2:00:24 PM

          The $400 made every news broadcast and news website. The job leading the center of Poverty at UNC was a political appointment by the Democrat controlled state government in North Carolina to give him a platform to position himself to run for President by traveling the country talking about poverty.

  • Posted By: richalling @ 11/19/2007 2:36:56 PM

    And where does Hillary live? And how much are her and Bill worth now? At least Edwards earned his money instead of being bought and paid for by the corporate world Hillary sucks up to.

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 2:59:00 PM

      If you can call how Edwards earned his money by taking very large percentages from settlements that his clients received for pain and suffering, then Edwards earned his money. Once Edwards earned his money In a North Carolina courtroom by claimingto channel a dead person to try and swing the jury in the favor of this client. Channeling a dead person is definitely a lie or fiction to most people.

      • Posted By: CivilServantBradley @ 11/19/2007 5:35:16 PM

        Tarheels, the large percentages you cite are no different from other lawyers who work on a commission basis. You're effectively saying that no lawyer who has worked for a private law firm/interest should run for president?

        • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/20/2007 9:27:33 AM

          Trial Lawyers are parasites on the American economy. Trial lawyers have made most of the large cash donations to Edwards in both 2004 and 2008. The trial lawyers are supporting Edwards so that he will keep tort reform from occurring. Tort reform will end the parasitic drain on the American economy by trial lawyers.

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 2:50:26 PM

      The difference is that Hillary doesn't claim to be from poor roots and the only hope of poor people while getting $400 haircuts and living in a 6 million dollar house. Edwards is a hypocrite that wants to deny that he is rich. Please don't forget that the bulk of the donations of large sums of money came from Trial Lawyers in both 2004 and 2008. The trial lawyers want Edwards to protect them from tort reform.

  • Posted By: CivilServantBradley @ 11/19/2007 5:37:39 PM

    Anyone wishing to arm themselves with knowledge to participate in thoughtful discourse about presidential candidates ought to read "Supercapitalism". 95% of partisan politicians are bought and paid for by Corporations, who are given special privileges and take the power of the vote away from individuals like all of us here.

  • Posted By: pmorlan1@bellsouth.net @ 11/19/2007 10:56:59 AM

    Let's see last week it was Mr. Wolffe at Newsweek who ran the Edwards hit piece. He told us all how Edwards campaign was falling apart in Iowa. A day later a new poll came out showing Edwards support was increasing in Iowa. This week he contributes to another Edwards "hit piece" along with Eleanor Cliff who has always been a Hilliary supporter.

    Folks, if you guys keep this fake anti-Edwards stuff up you are going to ruin the reputation of Newsweek.

    The American people like to see a fight but what they don't like is to see an unfair fight. You can't continue to use your position in the media to put your fingers on the scale in order to tip the election to your favorite candidate. When you do you lose all credibility. Let's drop the Edwards is the "angry man" routine. The American people can see with their own eyes that Edwards is not the angry man. What a shame that you are so cynical that you take the American people for fools.

    • Posted By: CivilServantBradley @ 11/19/2007 5:30:59 PM

      I could not agree more here. This is merely another example of media manipulation. Think anyone up top with Newsweek has contributed to contending campaigns?

  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 2:12:54 PM

    The media hasn't ordained Hillary the winner. They are reciting opinion polls taken from average Americans showing that Americans don't support Edwards and Obama. Based on the polls, America has decided. Don't fault the media for telling a story based on facts and polls that you don't agree with.

  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 2:12:30 PM

    Edwards isn't a voice of honesty. He's a sleazy trial lawyer who will say and do what it takes to win whether it's for a client or to get elected. In a North Carolina courtroom, Edwards claimed to channel a dead person to try and swing the jury in the favor of this client. Channeling a dead person is definitely a lie or fiction to most people.

  • Posted By: thomjo4018 @ 11/19/2007 12:28:20 PM

    For the record, I'm and JE supporter. My wife and I have given what little we could afford to his campaign.

    The issue for our family is not "the horserace" aspects of this "historic election", but rather, how are we going to take care of our family, and pay the bills. We are concerned about quality education, and health care coverage for our 22 month old son. The media, in our opinion is doing a terrible job of coveraging this campaign; sure it's been a two-year race, but it's a race that hasn't been covered by the media in any meaningful way.

    The media is to blame for the war in Iraq. If the national had pressed the facts, and asked the hard questions of the Bush Adminstration, we would not be there today. But instead, the national media cowerd to the Bush Neo-cons and cared more about "press access" rather than the truth. Sadly, the same can be said for the way this campaign is being covered.

    Instead of covering the candidates in a thoughtful way, the national media is pandering to the front runners and not scrutinizing the candiates in a way incumbment of a fair and open press. The national media has become more concerned with "access" that accountability.

    The national media is the only entity that can speak on behalf of the millions of Americans that don't have the $1,500 to rub elbows with the candidates. If the media isn't asking the tough questions on health care and the cost of living, who will?

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 2:02:51 PM

      It's a shame that the Edwards campaign convinced you to give you what little you could afford to support his campaign. John Edwards is a mult-millionaire who gets $400 haircuts and lives in a 6 million dollar home. Yet he's begging the poor to spend the last of what they can afford to support him.

  • Posted By: richalling @ 11/19/2007 1:31:06 PM

    Go John Edwards. Finally a voice of reason and honesty. I am absolutely disgusted by the fact the media has all ready ordained Hillary the winnner. The American people are so gullible and uninformed, many will likely not even vote because they have been told Hillary is the winner. Everything is Hillary. I cannot even watch my old favorite news shows anymore because all they talk about is Hillary the "front runner", it is the most hideous form of propaganda imaginable.

    So I say to all the Hillary pushers, SHUT UP AND LET US DECIDE.

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 1:55:05 PM

      Edwards isn't a voice of honesty. He's a sleazy trial lawyer who will say and do what it takes to win whether it's for a client or to get elected. In a North Carolina courtroom, Edwards claimed to channel a dead person to try and swing the jury in the favor of this client. Channeling a dead person is definitely a lie or fiction to most people.

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 1:52:48 PM

      The media hasn't ordained Hillary the winner. They are reciting opinion polls taken from average Americans showing that Americans don't support Edwards and Obama. Based on the polls, America has decided. Don't fault the media for telling a story based on facts and polls that you don't agree with.

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