The Wrath of John

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  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 1:47:50 PM

    Edwards did nothing for the people of North Carolina during his term in the Senate. Instead Edwards used his six years in the Senate to travel the country campaigning for the Presidency. Edwards missed more floor votes and debates in Senate than any other Senator. Edwards only voted when it was a issue that he could use as a speaking point during his run for the Presidency.

  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/19/2007 1:45:19 PM

    Don't trust John Edwards, he's a flip flopper. In 1998, he ran as a moderate in North Carolina to get elected as Senator by the conservative voters of North Carolina. In 2004, he ran as a liberal to appeal to the Democrat Party base. In 2008, he's running as a leftist, populist, and socialist to appeal to the moveon.org branch of the Democrat Party. If he's elected as President, which John Edwards will serve as President.

  • Posted By: dclgirl01 @ 11/19/2007 12:52:31 PM

    Comment: Well I thank God that at least one of these candidates is willing to take on the Clinton money machine. About 4 years ago a fellow co-worker came back from Iowa after working for the Democrats up there. While he initially endorsed another candidate he told us he couldn't dismiss John Edwards. Actually he was so impressed by conversations he had with Elizabeth Edwards in passing that he felt pulled to this team. My co worker talked about this for some time. Kerry went on to pick Edwards as his running mate and all of us caught a glimpse of this remarkable family. If this election really came down to integrity the Edwards would beat the Clintons hands down. And I challenge any of the nay sayers to claim that is not true.
    Edwards/Obama.....

  • Posted By: PissedDEM @ 11/19/2007 9:59:07 AM

    I sure don't blame John Edwards for being furious......I am too.......I say daily to my guy that Canada islooking better and better. And I agree about Hillary...she's sooooooo middle corporate. When my friends and family ask why I don't like Hillary Clinton, I answer that I've never voted Republican, and I'm not about to start now. My honest feeling is that there is something refreshing about every candidate on the Dems ticket except Clinton. I hope she loses because America is my home, and I am beginning o lose faith in her. Sad stuff

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 11/19/2007 11:54:31 AM

      I am a Veteran who for 8 years now has been ashamed to be called American!! John Edwards gives me true reason and hope to leap to faith if he could only be the one I will no longer have a reason to be ashamed to be American with JE as president as he is a true representation of what an American should be!! GO John 08+++++

  • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 11/19/2007 11:22:16 AM

    JE is the only American alive who CAN chill world leaders who sleep with the button under there pre-emtive pillows, to sleeping with it in the safe where it belongs. JE is a we the people mentality i find refreshing and most of you who know me know i don't do not find any politician refreshing till and up to John Edwards our next president!! the world can chill, we don't want to pay for it, so JE will make sure we don't, not for a dollar, or a drop of blood, and we ALL KNOW OUR OWN COUNTRY IS IN DIRE NEED and J Edwards is the fix! plain and simple

  • Posted By: guam65 @ 11/19/2007 11:06:53 AM

    John Edwards is a man of character. He is right and my mother said it best- She always said the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Wake up America- The middle class is now in the poorer slot. Why is it that we have to have 2 incomes for our families and can barely make it from paycheck to paycheck. That is a sad state for Family life in America. John Edwards speaks from experience- he did not grow up rich- he made his money the old fashioned way and earned it. Vote for change !!

  • Posted By: caliwmn760 @ 11/19/2007 10:35:30 AM

    I appreciate that fact that Edward's isn't backing down or is intimidated by Hillary. That lady has become a big disappointment to me. She cannot give one straight answer. Edwards is pissed and so am I....EDWARDS '08!

    • Posted By: caliwmn760 @ 11/19/2007 10:48:51 AM

      And for the record, the media is running the Clinton campaign, and all the true DEMS that are falling into this "making history 1st woman president" headlings, news selling, fiasco are totally missing the point. We need some real change in this country......WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!

  • Posted By: TimeToRaiseHell @ 11/19/2007 10:47:08 AM

    Polite discourse is how we got into the mess we are in. Bush was the 'Uniter' and no greater divider ever resided in The White House. The media may think its o.k. to play nice with outrageous circumstances for Americans, but some of us believe that the march to Fascism cannot be stopped with shadow-dancing and sound bites. Hillary is operating from the concept that she must pander to special interests and pander to the lunatics, who envoke corruption and fraud as a national imperative. John has the virtue of calling a spake a spade, which is a welcome change in the status quo.

  • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/18/2007 8:13:50 PM

    Don't trust John Edwards, he's a flip flopper. In 1998, he ran as a moderate in North Carolina to get elected as Senator by the conservative voters of North Carolina. In 2004, he ran as a liberal to appeal to the Democrat Party base. In 2008, he's running as a leftist, populist, and socialist to appeal to the moveon.org branch of the Democrat Party. If he's elected as President, which John Edwards will serve as President.

    • Posted By: caliwmn760 @ 11/19/2007 10:40:28 AM

      Anyone of those John Edwards is fine with me. I am sure most of us American's have flip flopped on issues in the past 10 years the way things are going anyway. Where are his roots? That is what should matter, and who is financing his campaign (where are his interestes). Think about that.

  • Posted By: stormy6 @ 11/19/2007 10:29:13 AM

    I DON'T KNOW WHY JOHN EDWARDS ISN'T THE FRONT RUNNER. HE IS THE ONLY ONE I TRULY TRUST OUT OF THE FOUR TO CANIDATE. THE BEST CANDIDATE IS KUCINICH BUT THE MEDIA DOESN'T GIVE HIM HIS DUE.
    JOHN EDWARDS MIGHT HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT IF IT WAS HE, NOT KERRY IN THE LAST ELECTION. COURSE

  • Posted By: stormy6 @ 11/19/2007 10:25:45 AM

    i don't understand why john edwards isn't the front runner. he is the only one in the top four that i truly trust. he would have beat that dumb ass bush if it was edwards instead of kerry running for president last time. but then , if you think about it. the elections are rigged so it doesn't really matter who you vote for. corruption in our government rules!

  • Posted By: gkintx @ 11/18/2007 12:03:41 AM

    Edwards came across as sleazy cry-baby lawyer in the debate, his tiring attacks on Hillary make him look like a loser IMHO.

    • Posted By: dclgirl01 @ 11/19/2007 9:59:40 AM

      Well I thank God that at least one of these candidates is willing to take on the Clinton money machine. About 4 years ago a fellow co-worker came back from Iowa after working for the Democrats up there. While he initially endorsed another candidate he told us he couldn't dismiss John Edwards. Actually he was so impressed by conversations he had with Elizabeth Edwards in passing that he felt pulled to this team. My co worker talked about this for some time. Kerry went on to pick Edwards as his running mate and all of us caught a glimpse of this remarkable family. If this election really came down to integrity the Edwards would beat the Clintons hands downa and I challenge any of you to claim that is not true.
      Edwards/Obama.....

  • Posted By: mahenry @ 11/19/2007 9:42:07 AM

    John Edwards has made a valuable point. Call him desparate, call him shrill, but he has made a point that needs to be made and that is of fundamental importance in this election. What is at stake here is Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, and for the people". It would be the greatest tragedy if we failed to see it.

    And because we have neglected it for so long, much of the electorate feels abandoned by the political prosess in America, and is frustrated to the point of dropping out.

    I do not believe we can have it both ways. I do not believe we can take large sums of money from the elite and the lobbyists, and expect to have, or to continue, or to restore representative government in America.

    SoWhatNow6, please do not drop out. We need you. Take you anger and convert it into a firm committmenmt to take back your government for the people of America, and work toward it. And thank God for a candidate that has the gumption to speak up

  • Posted By: hopeful1 @ 11/19/2007 9:28:01 AM

    I, too, agree with SoWhatNow6. This country is in Big Trouble! Edwards is the man who should be president if this country is to be salvaged socially, economically, politcally, morally, and educationally.

  • Posted By: SoWhatNow6 @ 11/19/2007 7:10:30 AM

    I, like John Edwards, have become very angry since 2004, I voted a straight Republican ticket for over 25 years! I no longer affiliate myself with the Republican party after watching my country sink into financing the war in Iraq that cannot be won, a non-transparent administration that is above the law and stonewalls the efforts of truth-seekers to obtain information at every turn, and has ruined the reputation of the USA as leader of the free world. This country is run by big business. I see Republican candidates spout about how our economy is fine. Well, for some people that may be true. But for an ever growing portion of the population, there is immense economic trouble and insecurity, Edwards is standing up for what is right.

    Neither my husband (a Vietnam veteran and Democrat) or me (a former Republican) will vote for Clinton. If she or any Republican is voted in as president, we are moving to Europe or Australia. My husband and I both have masters degrees, have suffered from layoffs (due to WAGE DESCRIMINATION), and are underpaid relative to our education. Since he cannot find a full-time job with benefits (too old at age 62), my husband teaches remedial English and Business Communication as an adjunct faculty member at a 4-year college (approximately $500/course per semester). He spends more time correcting student papers than his students do - they cannot event write a properly constructed grammatical sentence AND DEMAND As. Sad thing is, the message from the faculty chair to my husband is "move em through." College today is a sham and just another big business. Colleges just pass on the failures of the public school system and collect their tuition. If anybody going through college today learns something, it just is a fluke of the system.

    Americans are in BIG TROUBLE, except for those among us who have already amassed our fortunes. .John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group spoke on PBS recently about how our economy is redistributing wealth to the wealthy. Wake up America! If it has not yet happened to you, it will soon. My husband just cashed out the last of his 401k to pay our property taxes next month. Someone better start standing up for what is right. Edwards is correct - the system is rigged, Big business rules. The average American has a DISMAL FUTURE ahead if the STATUS QUO is maintained. By the way, the Clinton administration had a lot to do with the trade deals that have and is bankrupting Americans today. No more Clintons in the White House please. We will move to Australia or Europe first -somewhere progressive where big business does not run the government.

  • Posted By: SoWhatNow6 @ 11/19/2007 7:08:17 AM

    I, like John Edwards, have become very angry since 2004, I voted a straight Republican ticket for over 25 years! I no longer affiliate myself with the Republican party after watching my country sink into financing the war in Iraq that cannot be won, a non-transparent administration that is above the law and stonewalls the efforts of truth-seekers to obtain information at every turn, and has ruined the reputation of the USA as leader of the free world. This country is run by big business. I see Republican candidates spout about how our economy is fine. Well, for some people that may be true. But for an ever growing portion of the population, there is immense economic trouble and insecurity, Edwards is standing up for what is right.

    Neither my husband (a Vietnam veteran and Democrat) or me (a former Republican) will vote for Clinton. If she or any Republican is voted in as president, we are moving to Europe or Australia. My husband and I both have masters degrees, have suffered from layoffs (due to WAGE DESCRIMINATION), and are underpaid relative to our education. Since he cannot find a full-time job with benefits (too old at age 62), my husband teaches remedial English and Business Communication as an adjunct faculty member at a 4-year college (approximately $500/course per semester). He spends more time correcting student papers than his students do - they cannot event write a properly constructed grammatical sentence AND DEMAND As. Sad thing is, the message from the faculty chair to my husband is "move em through." College today is a sham and just another big business. Colleges just pass on the failures of the public school system and collect their tuition. If anybody going through college today learns something, it just is a fluke of the system.

    Americans are in BIG TROUBLE, except for those among us who have already amassed our fortunes. .John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group spoke on PBS recently about how our economy is redistributing wealth to the wealthy. Wake up America! If it has not yet happened to you, it will soon. My husband just cashed out the last of his 401k to pay our property taxes next month. Someone better start standing up for what is right. Edwards is correct - the system is rigged, Big business rules. The average American has a DISMAL FUTURE ahead if the STATUS QUO is maintained. By the way, the Clinton administration had a lot to do with the trade deals that have and is bankrupting Americans today. No more Clintons in the White House please. We will move to Australia or Europe first -somewhere progressive where big business does not run the government.

  • Posted By: Tom C @ 11/19/2007 6:55:28 AM

    Edwards is just telling the truth. I agree corporate Democrats are just as bad as Corporate Republicans. If Hill. gets the nomination it matters not who wins the White House it will be the same old Special Interest who get served not the people. If all those people in Iowa pick there second choice as John Edwards, then in a caucus he will win. What could happen is lower tiered candidates could throw there support to someone else. My guess it will be Edwards and he will win Iowa. Get the big Mo and Win NH and SC. Goodnight Hill and Obama.

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 11/19/2007 4:42:20 AM

    I have seen Edwards on CNN saying contradicting statements on the same issue infront of different audiences. He has no clear standing on any issue. If he is elected to be the US President, the world will be more chaotic .(including the climate)

  • Posted By: seanstratford @ 11/18/2007 3:13:25 AM

    Edwards should dump Joe Trippi. He is making Edwards look like Dean four years ago and that is NOT a winning strategy. One can argue for the little guy without sounding bitter.

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/18/2007 8:15:16 PM

      With Trippi calling the shots, that means John Edwards will scream like Howard Dean when he loses the Iowa caucuses.

  • Posted By: John Luma @ 11/18/2007 2:05:36 PM

    Edwards is doing what he should have done from day one -- clearly define the differences between himself and his Democratic opponents -- and that means do it in the strongest terms. You only have to look to the history of "nice" Democratic Presidential candidates to see what happened to them -- they all lost. Adlai Stevenson ran twice "above the fray" and lost by huge margins. Obama runs the same way -- way back in second place. Kerry ran almost the entire campaign without attacking, while his Republican smear mongers were assassinating his character every day. No, it is absolutely true that in politics, nice guys finish last. I am a Democrat, but if I end up having to vote for Hillary it will be with the knowledge she is just as secretive and diabolical as the worst on the other side.

    • Posted By: tarheelsarenotforedwards @ 11/18/2007 8:11:31 PM

      Edwards is showing the signs of a desperate loser. Edwards has a history of being a sleazy trial lawyer that will say and do whatever it takes to get what he wants. In a North Carolina courtroom he once said he was channeling a dead person in court to get the jury on his side.


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