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I’m relieved that Obama and Clinton have called off the dogs (though I’d like to see the key surrogates involved whacked). But has their bickering given Edwards new life in Nevada?
For the first time since polling began in the Silver State, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama has taken a slight lead over U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, and former U.S. John Edwards has come within shooting distance of the two front-runners.
Of 500 likely Democratic caucus-goers surveyed, 32 percent favored Obama, 30 percent favored Clinton, and 27 percent favored Edwards.
It’s up for grabs. And this is impressive (emphasis mine):
Most surprising was Edwards’ standing, which jumped 15 points from the last RGJ poll in November. Edwards was second in Iowa and third in New Hampshire and has not campaigned in Nevada since those contests.
Think about that. He hasn’t been there and he’s surging. Compare and contrast his media coverage with Willard’s or Grandpa’s and ask yourself why he’s not getting more press.
If Edwards wins Nevada, all bets are off. He’ll get a big bump and 2 weeks of fawning press as the "Comeback Kid" before he returns to the state that he won in 2004. Stranger things have happened — let’s not anoint anyone just yet.
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Go John!
Go Edwards!
John Edwards has come within shooting distance of the two front-runners.
Damn, I’m glad I didn’t say that.
Hi there Blue Texan…
Yo Raven…
BT,
Love the thoughts but I’d probably keel over dead if JRE got two weeks of fawning media coverage despite any comeback he might have. Yes, I think the PTB fear him that much.
new life in NV?
I’m thinkin’ all Edwards needs is to be seen and heard more!
GO EDWARDS!!!
Edwards seems to be teaming up with Obama against Hillary. (Disclosure: I’m an Edwards supporter.)
I don’t know. His winning Nevada would disrupt the narrative, and they’d love that. They’re getting tired of the Clinton-Obama thing, I can feel it.
The media blackout of Edwards is simply disgusting.
Bastards…
Isure hope so, I am sick of the media ‘disappearing’ him.
Be nice to see the bastards get another uppercut to the chin wrt their ‘anal asys’.
Whatever he has to do…
And HEY YOU, Hon. Sen. Dodd! Uncle Sam Needs YOU Majority Leader. Don’t you go’n hide now.
GO EDWARDS and Whomever! GO Dodd!
One can only hope for it, maybe people have come to see Edwards as the
progressive in the hunt as the front runners prove their establishment
links by not discussing the issues real people need help with.
What a strange, nifty picture! Everyone’s got a genuine happyface on.
This is great news but Id be happy with any good showing John has. Im so sick of the bickering of the others. Hillary’s innocent face while her minions trash Obama makes me sick. Clinton “machine” says alot.
I have a hard time imagining fawning media overage under any circumstances, but Krugman is right: he has been setting the policy agenda and pace for the others to adopt, or at least, pay lip service to.
Since he does seem to get some bump in general as people get to know his candidacy better, one would hope that his active campaigning there would help him, if you’re an Edwards supporter, though the numbers geek in me might be tempted to draw the perverse conclusion that staying away from as many key states as possible might be the thing that helps him.
Of course I don’t believe that, but if he’s getting a bump from negative reaction to the Clobama identity politics feud, it’s not at all clear that this represents actual support for Edwards, or that he can keep it if they turn that mutually assured destruction dynamic around.
And about that debate tonight in Nevada: From Glenzilla:
AP: A Lebanese official says a bombing in Beirut is believed to have targeted a U.S. Embassy vehicle, and that there are casualties.
Run through “the neighborhood” shouting what you just wrote.
Rinse.
Repeat.
Again!
Edwards’ campaign needs $$$ for more ads to counterbalance the media ignoring/minimizing him. Daughter’s wedding coming up & I’m a bit tapped, but donating what I can:
http://www.johnedwards.com/
you know, I posted something I’m quite proud of downstairs and I got in too late so though I love the fact that edwards can make florida his, I still have to make sure this comnent from moi is read;
when I am elected president I will pass the following law;
“you must have skin in the game to qualify for a vote on war, your skin must be first called, on the front line and first in”
bing, done
And even though Hillary and Obama are calling for a truce, the identity politics feud will be an undercurrent for the rest of the campaign, including general. Unless of course both Hillary and Obama are absent at general, an unlikely prospect at this point.
“Think about that. He hasn’t been there and he’s surging.”
this is a surge i can support. Edwards was my second choice; when Dodd dropped out of the race Edwards became my first choice.
oh Please, Oh Please, oh Please… let it be true! GOoooOOOo EDWARDS.
PS: Judge ruled NBC had to include Kuchinich – NBC appealing (not very, imho)
(crossing fingers)I really really hope that Edwards wins in Nevada. As far as I’m concerned he is the only hope to revive interest in antitrust actions, particularly in the media.
The media is already washing that story a bit.
Between this incident and the killing of a US diplomat in Sudan last week, it would make Bush’s narrative about the US not getting attacked rather specious.
-G
Don’t forget, save your donations until this Friday–the day blogosphere supporters are trying to raise $7 million for Edwards online. Buying yard signs, buttons, etc. counts, too.
My heart was in my throat when I heard Edwards’ daughter was in a car accident, wondering what he and Elizabeth were feeling, given that their son died in a car accident. Fortunately, I found out that Cate was unharmed!
Hi Pach.
Good solid points, I’m sure, e.g.,
but, if “we” can just force some media attention twd him, he and Eliz. both are so articulate…. I have hope and confidence he could run with the ball, if he just got his fingers on it…
mebbe i’m naive, but “won’t know unless ya try” applies, eh?
Did you know that there were a proposed amendment to the US constitution in 1916 that stated all wars had to be subject to a national referendum and that all who voted in favor of war would be immediately signed-up for the draft.
It didn’t pass.
-G
Thanks for the tip. I’ll be donating then. Already got the yard sign :)
There was…
I didn’t know it, it is amuzing but it would leave us without government in a time of war
my amendment is a little more practicle
thanx for the info greg
IDF raids kill 17 Palestinians.
In the shadow of Bush’s peace tour. As usual, he talks peace out of one side of his mouth, war out of the other side of his mouth and always leaves a trail of death and destruction.
Haaretz reports.
-G
Time to buy more popcorn? This bickering between Hillary and Obama shows 2 things. Obama’s claim of being able to bring together people of differing views is a lie and Hillary’s perfect campaign is long gone.
Edwards problem is the press hates him.
Our problem is that any one who ever questions corporate power is immediately excoriated by the so called ‘journalists’ riding the $200k/yr corporate gravy train.
well, this is interesting, the times is at least smacking krystol around a little bit;
gleaned from thik progress
it’s not that the press hates him it’s that the corporate puppeteers have told them not to cover him
What a heartwarming post to come back to this morning after zippin’ through the frosty north country. Last thread [comment 21] I whored my blog because I’m trying to help build the buzz, kindle the fire for Edwards. Someone else noted “Jesus is Just Us…” I think it comes back to “We, the people…”
Edwards has stated that this is an epic battle. He is leading. Will we nails = nuts’n’bolts fail to follow?
question of the day:
Did Times editors want a columnist? or a pinata ball? stay tuned, heh.
Terrific post BT, but here’s one statement I don’t agree with:
The only way Edwards could get fawned on by the press is if he is revealed to be the father of Brittany’s baby.
From your lips to God’s ear.
This is very exciting, but given how the press has treated Edwards, if he wins, won’t they just say “What happens in Nevada stays in Nevada”?
Since Dodd is out, I’m 99% certain Edwards will get my FL primary vote.
most of them make TWICE that
even on NPR…salaries are 350 per year and up
Meanwhile, in Michigan:
John’s my guy
I’m the father.
Or the son of Murdoch
GO JOHNNY GO…GO GO GO JOHNNY GO!!!!!!!!!!
I’m betting that if Edwards wins they will just gloss over the win and talk about the percentage difference between Hillary and Obama. Call me jaded.
I hope they give Dennis ample time to express his views as well. It’s really unfortunate that not only MSM, but many of the blogs have shut Dennis out, as well. It’s really time that we, the people, come together and support the best candidate. At least look at what he’s been doing (like, his job!) at dennis4president.com. Wordy, yes. But he’s walking the walk! He deserves to be heard, at least. Then you really can make up your own mind as to who is the best choice.
A good scrap between Hillary and Obama in tonight’s debate could only benefit Edwards. However, I think Obama will keep his cool.
How many lives wasted to remove the Baathists [Saddam’s party]…now to see the same people restored to power in cynical overclass gamery.
How many lives has The Bush wasted for his “gut instinct”? How much dishonor and shame has The Bush brought upon America?
How deep the wounds of our collective PTSD? Will they heal? Will the true believers ever face their own craven complicity? Or be held to account?
The have-nots and the once-hads must vote the have-more-and-mores back into their ratholes where they belong.
here ya go pupps wake up and rock
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eY4s-lSlsfw
Dennis throwing his support to a NON progressive in NH,finished him for me…just another EGOTIST imo
Just what is the reason of MSM’s attitude toward Edwards: Because he’s anti-corporate? And that’s all? Somehow, that doesn’t seem sufficient. There must be other reasons. But I’m stumped. Help anyone?
Are u tryin’ ta get r attention?
There ya go, now run along… *pat pat pat*
How many lives has The Bush wasted for his “gut instinct”? How much dishonor and shame has The Bush brought upon America?
————
pocketbook instinct,imo
And to paraphrase a favorite movie, “They’re on a gravy train with biscuit wheels.”
Not my idea of lint-free journalism of any sort…
Agreed. And to this end remember, there’s a big push on Friday to load him up with some capital. Even 10 bucks will help. I’ve already donated two weeks pay, and I Promised myself – No More; but I find I have to be part of Friday’s action. Go to johnedwards.com on Friday if you are interested in joining in.
FROM YOUR KEYBOARD TO GOD’S EAR!!!!
1,727 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Blue Texan and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
Havin’ spent time in Texas in an earlier life (when I was young and had an immune system that could handle it)…I wonder at yer incredible strength and resiliency to still have enough brain cellz left ta post such great stuff after spendin’ so much time stayin’ alive in that fascist waste dump. I truly believe that (based on Pheonix Woman’s post yesterday) Edwards is the only current Democratic candidate who could beat ALL of the fascist pretenders. I think the corporatists have boxed themselves into a corner by tryin’ ta balkanize two of the three largest interest groups, women and Blacks, against each other…Edwards has a real opportunity to peel off a good chunk a both and put a progressive hurt on the corporatist wing of the Democratic Party.
But, make no mistake, the corporate oligarchy has already accomplished a good bit of what they have wanted in the Clinton and O’Lieberman candidacies and that is to split the largest demographics in the Democratic coalition against each other so that, thanx to voter suppression, there will never be a strong and independent Democratic Party.
The corporate media can’t go after Edwards either, now, because that will give ‘im the exposure they have kept from ‘im over the last 6 weeks…the corporate fascist machine has clanked to a halt jest short of victory…maybe they’ve run outta oil?
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION…WE’VE GOT ONE CHANCE LEFT!!
Hmmm…. One has to wonder. Vegas has a great deal of experience in rigging machines that are supposed to show a winner don’t they?/s
LOL
the media CONTROLS THE MESSAGE AND THE SHEEPLE…..that is tremendous power,corporations want this to continue…it is called THE STATUS QUO
Phoenix AZ Edward supports will be meeting on Jan 24th, info is available on Google groups under ArizonaForEdwards. Anyone in the area please join us.
great flick
Aren’t they all a victim of ‘egotist’? I haven’t heard about Dennis’ support for a non-progressive, as I’m thinking that that is who ‘the others’ pretty much are. What I see is that Dennis has been trying for some time to reinstate the Constitution; moreso than the other candidates combined. Again, I obtain much of my info online, and since I have more control as to what I read and hear, I haven’t heard about that so it hasn’t affected my base perspective.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s issues with Dennis too. Whoever is running his campaign isn’t doing such a great job, imo. But still, it’s what Dennis says and what he’s trying to do that makes it important for more people to hear about.
Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC), former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, sticking with Edwards. Yea!
http://projects.newsobserver.c….._not_ready
I looked for a link, but can’t find one. Who is leading this campaign, or do we just go to John Edwards’s website on that day? I want to pitch in then.
They don’t have any good dirt on him. Just guessing.
Actually gambling machine receive very strict and scheduled calibration tests. This is a caucus which should be very similar to Iowa. No machines but read this page….
Slot machines vs Voting machines
My guess is the non-progressive goes by the name of Ron Paul.
Just think, slot machines have stricter standards than voting machines.
at 1% he can never win,if he REALLY cared he would throw ALL HIS SUPPORT to the guy walking the walk,talking the talk..the guy with a POVERTY foundation….John Reed Edwards imo
Edwards…last man standing.
and my fave…Bonnie Raitt,supports JRE
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc…..B75F48EF45
mebbe that’s exactly what he’ll do, eventually. let’s hope.
DU started it. We need to donate through JRE’s website where he can get matching funds. It was decided that any donations through ActBlue are not eligible for matching funds.
My only prayer after this week is for somehow Edwards to miraculously pull through Nevada to set him up nicely for South Carolina. Please! I don’t want to have to choose between two corporate Dems.
Donate this Friday! Come on, Edwards! I want a candidate I can be proud to support.
one can hope ,and pray for CHANGE
I have been debating whether to vote uncommitted or cross over and help keep it up in the air for the gopers in the primary today. This bit of information decides it. Uncommitted it is and then hope that those delegates end up with Edwards (provided that they are seated). Thanks for getting this post up Blue Texan.
Info on the $7 million in one day…
Edwards blog
or
Why I’m Contributing to Edwards On Friday 18th
You could be right..but would a lot of pissed off Dems stay home for the general election?
WHY?
Deep Six the Novelty Candidates (The “Frontrunners”)
I’ve had nothing but admiration for the Democratic Party’s inclusion ideals for 35 years.
But now is not the time for it, chillun.
This Republic is in deep shit.
Go with the pragmatic, sure thing – Edwards.
I actually believe the press does hate him. Whenever they do cover him it’s overwhelmingly to mock him (see: hair cut and expensive house nonsense).
and how many would stay home if hill got the nod
Ms Molly, there is or was a diary over at dkos to rally the troops, but you can simply go to his website on Friday. The goal is a one day slam of financial support a la Ron Paul. This link should be good:
https://www.johnedwards.com/action/contribute/mail
And I cannot emphasize enough how underfunded his campaign is. I went over to NH, and both Clinton’s and Obama’s campaigns were fat and glossy – big 6 by 8 megasigns everywhere, and big groups of people. And not one dinky Edwards sign anywhere. In the campaign office, I looked for signs to put some around and found a box of the yard size signs, but no metal wickets to stand them up with.
It’s really kind of amazing how he’s running a presidential campaign. And if votors don’t become part of his movement, then we’ll have another government for the corporations, by the corporations.
OT. Did anyone else notice Gates stumbling and bumbling his way through a statement on Iraq policy and [how it’s goin’] just last week? Seemed as though he choked on the words, could barely get them out, as in: doesn’t believe what he himself is saying & doesn’t expect anyone else to either.
Wish i had a link. It’s gotta be on a clip somewhere. Rather dramatic.
If they’re pissed off, it won’t be (for the most part) that Edwards is the candidate. It will be because Bush is the president.
Not that I disagree in totality to your statement, because in all likelihood Dennis will lose, but it won’t be because of me. I’m tired of thinking that I have to vote for the ‘lesser of evils’ (not that John is evil, mind you) especially since my vote does not count anyway! The delegates vote for the state, the electorate votes for the state.
He’s at 1% because he’s getting absolutely no ‘free’ airtime, either on the airwaves or on the net.
I guess I’m not at the point of criticizing him as to who he ’supports’ or doesn’t. Personally, I think he needs to remain neutral to all of them and allow his supporters to decide for themselves. He needs to express his faith in them to choose the ’second best’. Faux pax on his part; maybe, but again, I’m much more interested in his position and his integrity.
I’ll still vote for Dennis. He’s the only one that has maintained an ethical, reasonable, well-intentioned and researched opposition on many of the devastating issues we face now.
Your Druidic sense of humor is delightfully droll, but it would be lost on the media who take the travails of their Brittany quite seriously. Though, at the moment it is her sister upon whom their concerns rest, paternally speaking.
If Obama and Clinton tear each other apart..a lot of bad feelings about the “system” and disinterest in voting for another White Male Southerner for president.
I don’t think that anyone who is engaged in the primary process is going to stay home in November, no matter who gets the nomination. I think people are so engaged because everyone knows how important it is. And I highly doubt that any Clinton, Obama, or Edwards supporter is going to think, come November, that it doesn’t matter who wins.
they’re lazy, and they like their own fat paychecks & glossy lifestyle, so they read what’s put in front of them.
u think most of them write their own copy? really??!?
heh heh
Just give money! A blogger over on dKos, screen name KingOneEye, came up with the idea. Said if Ron Paul supporters could raise over $4(?) million in one day that Edwards supporters should be able to do better than that. The idea is not only to help with expenses (especially since dollars will be matched), but it will give the campaign a talking point to show support. I think there’s a diary up about this on the official Edwards website, as well.
huh?
Go John Edwards. I am with ya.
(leaving to donate now.)
WELL PUPS READ THIS
we cant afford to stay home
WASHINGTON – Wholesale inflation last year shot up by the largest amount in 26 years while retailers suffered their worst December shopping season in five years as mounting economic woes caused consumers to put away their wallets.
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The Labor Department reported that wholesale inflation was up 6.3 percent for all of 2007, reflecting a huge increase for the year in various types of energy costs ranging from gasoline to home heating oil.
Meanwhile, retail sales fell by 0.4 percent in December, the worst showing in six months, the Commerce Department reported. Consumer confidence has plunged, reflecting the worsening housing slump and a lingering credit crisis
Oh, now you’ve got my hopes up Blue Texan. Damn you! :)
If you can, wiat to donate on Friday, so we can get $7 million in one day. Great PR!
Thanks BT! And don’t forget to Digg this post.
Thanks Blue Texan, I’m down with Edwards.
You should be able to vote for whom you wish and have that vote have some meaning. Depressing bloody system we have here. I want the conventions back!
Done.
the media is to
COMFORT the AFFLICTED and AFFLICT the COMFORTABLE lol
EPU land,
I am proud to state that my niece has been working for Edwards in Nevada and other progressive areas including Alaska.
I have always thought that Edwards hanging in the race was crucial to the Depression that is to come.(10 Billion writedown by citicorp, stinky deal by B of A to buy countrywide WITH liabilities for fraudulant practices , and oncoming inflation(6.3% biggest jump in 30 years)
I don’t wanna poop on the party, and YES! I’ll donate to Edwards Friday. I PROMISE! AND put out signs and wear buttons & talk him up and work for his election…
but…but… i gotta ask. doesn’t that upper half of a face on the right side of the photo above look a lot like… liarman??? could it be?
if it is, at least he’s not kissing anyone… the funny look on the gal facing the camera is telling me it might be hojo trying to steal s’more limelight yet agin… suggest crop pic if used again…
I completely agree with you here. Stay home at your peril, if you’re a progressive, I say.
Not trying to do that — who knows what will happen. All I’m saying is, the guy is up 15 in a state he hasn’t visited since Iowa, and the race is within the MOE. He’s got a shot to win Nev., and that’s news.
and look where GREENSPIN is hanging his hat
http://firedoglake.com/2008/01…..fund-firm/
all RATS all the time
lol, where evil lurks!
Dow down ~ 200….Inflation up, jobless numbers up and it’s just the beginning….The Dems better get ahead of the economy message.
I am afraid you may well be correct.
How many “right to work” states are there? Nevada is one, you can get fired for hurting yourself on the job. The unions have been butchered by organized crime and their mormon accountants and stooges. It would be nice to see a real person, willing to speak about the issues, do better than place or show
OT–
Condi’s meaningless side-junket to Iraq, and empty words:
hahahahahaha…that guyt is bald,ladies hair behind him,i dont think JRE could be in the same room as Liarman,the stench would kill em
Arizona is Right to work AND Employment at will which is a great duo of work laws.
Right to work – you do not have to belong to a union to work
Employment at will – they can fire your ass on the spot without cause
”quite remarkably”….considering they are living in the stone age,without water or electricity…goood one Kinda sleazy,hows those Feragammos tratin ya?
The debate tonight should be interesting. We’ll really know whether there’s a truce in this race-gender antagonism…
As I said in 118, empty words:
(Same link as my 118.)
Be great to see the country turn the corner. Especially since the petty bickering (larger conversation on racism and sexism aside) since Iowa.
Since Edwards seems to have command of the issues people are interested in and Clinton and Obama come in a 1 – 6 months late and get tons of stories about themselves when they touch something he did already.
—
Wonder if the drunk driver that hit Edwards daughter was a message, or just another one in a sea of terrible stats for issues from top to bottom we are facing.
okay… reason #3845 why I’ll vote for Edwards:
He’s TOTALLY, I mean UTTERLY & COMPLETELY ignoring whomever that balding girliemanguy is. Bravo. But, we’d have to get used to a prez. who can concentrate on important things and look past drivel. Will the nation risk whiplash injury, come January 2009? Is it worth the risk?
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! GO EDWARDS!
I think your over analyzing the photo but I agree with the rest.
Another thug quits:
TPM
Doesn’t this also point to the sad tear drop that reguardless of his support (unless overwhelming) he is not going to get an ounce of ink or a single decible.
And media coverage does matter (obv).
of course i am, heh. i’m here so you won’t have to. ;->
freakkin hedge funds should be out lawed imo
lol, ok, thank you :)
Edwards himself and his communications director have both piled on Clinton
and I don’t think he does himself any favors. Obama and Clinton are trying to dial back the racial accusations and this morning Kofinis tried to rachet it back up.
HEDGE FUNDS
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VW7eyNX55-E
i agree,big mistake…stick to the ISSUES
Gotta link?
Hey Pach,
This is interesting:
Perhaps this is just another signal from the American People that Yes, We’re Serious. We Really Do Want Change and that Includes Campaign Tactics.
I for one of many I assume have had enough Dirty Tricks and Lies from the GOPness to last for eternity.
And this is bad–no matter which way you cut it:
Will the above foto replace the album cover of Abbey Road?
And just who are the women in the fur hats?
MSM looking to win the prez without a shot being fired…without a single discussion of issues/policy. Edwards hurts them in this, but the other two candidates support an election (and in some cases even debates) where not a single issue is raised. Some of the lack of discussion in the debates is surely the short time and numerous candidates (or the moderators) but its very annoying (have seen Edwards skip a few answers and focus more on an attack or side-issue, but the others are worse – think Richardson when talking about anything other than the Iraq War or occasionally energy…he would just repeat his resume over and over and over again (without the part of being in HK’s energy lobby firm)).
As I said here a little while ago, he seemed always to be on quaaludes…
Any link? Where did he say it? To whom did he say it? What did he say?
Just asking
Sort of OT and is this going to be EPU’d? I just got an email from Planned Parenthood of Illinois with a list of endorsements of candidates who support choice and are pro-women’s health or something. The list includes Dem Melissa Bean and Repub Mark Kirk (whose Dem opponent has not yet been chosen). I detest the one issue stuff – especially on this issue where the people have to know better!!
dunno & dunno
but i do believe the gal facing camera is indeed looking right at hojo’s mouth – probably trying to decipher something he’s saying, or-r-r-r wishing he’d flick that piece of spinach off his dentures? fleck of spittle off his chin? whatever, she’s not showing an altogether positive attytood twd the dextinguished visage at her point of focus.
apologies to tw3k
Oh I am hoping for an Edwards surge. First because I like him. I heard him speak in New Orleans, he gave me goosebumps. He has a real fire in the belly.
Second. This tendancy for an early coronation without signifigant debate is just insane when we have so many problems that need fixing.
I’m going to give to John Edwards campaign on Friday and ask my friends and family members to do so. GO JOHN!!!
You still talking about that photo? *g*
Not him. Not enough wrinkles.
It’d be nice to see Clinton or Obama fire consultants or advisors who make bullshit ‘under the radar’ racist or sexist comments. I’d be pissed as hell if one of my crew was trying to incite hostilities like that, or try to steal thunder from my opposition in that way. And I’d certainly fire them to show how serious I am about it.
Agree.
No kosher botox available.
John Edwards, a third candidate in the Democratic primary, waded into the dispute Sunday.
“I must say I was troubled recently to see a suggestion that real change came not through the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King but through a Washington politician. I fundamentally disagree with that,” Edwards told more than 200 people gathered at a predominantly black Baptist church in Sumter, S.C.
http://cbs2chicago.com/politic…..29026.html
Kofinis made his statement in the 9am est on msnbc –
no need, always interesting to hear someones’ critique of an image.
The subtle nuances of facial gesticulation displayed by the (nekkid) featherless biped are wondrous to behold.
The walrus was Paul, right?
People spending money they do not have is good. Where the solution comes from I do not know, but we are not going to spend or bomb (same thing) out of this one.
And I’m assuming the corollary is that a Democratic Governor and Attorney General alone cannot change that. For that to change would require a change in the state’s legislators, or their party. I have heard nothing about the masses expressing a desire to change from a right to work state with employment at will. Could that be due to the Arizona Republic not investigating what the people think? After all, Barry Goldwater’s gone, and the signs were that even he had changed prior to his death.
Called off the dogs, huh? Have you read the Cohen piece in the Post today? After crying anti-Semite about Obama, Cohen echoes the Clinton “voted present” charge in the last paragraph. Her fingerprints are on this, not just Hiatt’s.
I am glad he said what is below, it is exactly the same thing that I thought. It was a team and MLK led the effort and was the change agent. It does not take some mystical president to make something happen.
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John Edwards, a third candidate in the Democratic primary, waded into the dispute Sunday.
“I must say I was troubled recently to see a suggestion that real change came not through the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King but through a Washington politician. I fundamentally disagree with that,” Edwards told more than 200 people gathered at a predominantly black Baptist church in Sumter, S.C.
http://cbs2chicago.com/politic…..29026.html
Kofinis made his statement in the 9am est on msnbc –
Hey. I’ve promised to donate. Weeks ago I was one of the few people who yanked the discussion back to Dodd and Edwards. Whutchoowant frum me ???(speakin’ a which, Frum is spokesperson for Rudyrudyrudy, in case ya didn’ know, acc. to CNN &/or MSNBC)
Besides, in case it ain’t been apparent up to this point in the greater scheme of world relations, I’m a mental midget compared to most of the FDL dawgs. Anyhoo, photos can be fascinating to a ‘face-reader’, and many hyperactive kids – even grownup ones – are pretty good at face-reading.
That’ll be $50, payable at the John Edwards Campaign window on Friday.
Thankyou for your generosity. and your thot-provoking comments contributed at the Lake.
(((PEACE)))
It’s astonishing that repubs still think the media is liberal, as a relative informed me over the holidays. Liberals are just as critical of msm “news” so logically it cannot be both. Watching fox kills brain cells, I swear.
i think that’s just a mantra kkkarl has fed them because it’s a useful put-down. and, unfortunately, often it seems to work. slap a derogatory label on anything you don’t want to deal with, and walk away. Easier than thinking.
Go John – nice to see someone actually asking the Democratic base for their vote!!! I really hope he wins this one.
one last shot: in re lack of wrinkles (say whu?)
faux smile, as witnessed often on campaign trail & formal bidness dealings with lesser beings, often only involves the mouth, while the eyes will frequently tell a whole ‘nother story.
handy rule: cover mouth & look at eyes; cover eyes (in the photo, silly!) & look at mouth; compare messages; are they the same?
*dashing upstairs after the pack and Christy*
It warms my heart to see Edwards numbers so good considering the “blackout” and disadvantage in capital.
He’s not in Israel’s pocket, for one thing, and that’s a big thing.
Tell me about it. Here’s the humble asking from the Edwards campaign:
Of course some of us would rather drink Edwards’ Dunkin Donuts than have sushi with Obama/Hillary/or Lieberman anyday. I think I’ll contribute for those snacks. Progressives no how to stretch that money.
Great pseudonym.
I have a post up at my place that discusses the press disdain for Edwards. Click on my user name if you want to see it.
Yeah. it’s Clinton fault that Barack Obama said he had the same policy as Dubya going into Iraq in 2004. Saying anything about that fact is akin to being racist and dishonoring MLK and JFK’s legacies.
It is also the Clinton’s fault Obama experiemented with hard drugs.
Oh, and how dare the Clintons note how Obama voted? The very nerve of them! [Edited by mod.]
I still think Edwards will have to either win in an upset or finish a close second in his “native son” State of South Carolina to make the Nevada win truly powerful. If he does that he will indicate a “national appeal” in the West and South that neither of the other candidates have suggested.
Enough talk, let’s work for John and make it happen…these primaries *are* the election.
WOW! Wasn’t it just last Wednesday or Thursday when the polling organizations decided to give a pass on Nevada because of the difficulty of polling the electorate?
I guess they figured out what went wrong in New Hampshire…
The fact that Edwards is not embraced by the corporate press is kind of a nice endorsement/proof that he means what he says, imho! Maybe others perceive this as well.
If you knew the history of comments made by Cohen regarding the Clinton’s you would not be making the statement “Called off the dogs, huh? Have you read the Cohen piece in the Post today? After crying anti-Semite about Obama, Cohen echoes the Clinton “voted present” charge in the last paragraph. Her fingerprints are on this, not just Hiatt’s.”
Here’s just a few…
COHEN (8/11/05): The same holds for the other women associated with this [New York Senate] race—even more so if Hillary Clinton eventually runs for president. In effect, she will once again invite us to dissect her marriage and why she stays in it. She is clearly up to it—but why she is up to it is something many of us will never understand. The life of a politician, ever strange, is getting stranger and stranger.
COHEN (2/13/07): It was about the only thing I got right about the war, which, the record will show, I supported. If I were running for the presidency, I might call my position “a mistake” and bray about being misled. But it was really a lapse in judgment. For reasons extraneous to this particular column, I thought the war would do wonders for the Middle East and that it would last, at the most, a week or two. In this I was assured by the usual experts in and out of government. My head nodded like one of those little toy dogs in the window of the car ahead of you.
So I do not condemn Clinton and other Democratic presidential candidates — Chris Dodd, Joe Biden and John Edwards — for voting for the war because I would have done the same. I fault them, though, for passing the blame to Bush as the guy who misled them. They all had sufficient knowledge to question the administration’s arguments, and they did not do so. Not a single one of them, for instance, could possibly have believed the entirety of the administration’s case or not have suspected that the reasons for war were being hyped.
COHEN (9/18/07): This week Hillary Clinton announced her health care plan. Good for her. But you never had any doubt, did you, that she was going to have one — and a plan for everything else. The issue with Hillary Clinton is not whether she’s smart or experienced but whether she has — how do we say this? — the character to be president. Behind her, after all, trails the lingering vapor of all those gates: Travel, File, Whitewater, and other scandals to which she was a part only through marriage. In a hatless society, she is always wearing a question mark.
Let’s not rush to conclusions about who’s fingerprints are on these hit pieces, ok?
The press is corporate; John is anti-corporate. That’s more than enough.
Don’t forget the powers that be.
Posted this about Edwards a few days ago:
We need a fighter. We need to fight to get to where we want to go. Hope does not get the deeds done. I am voting Edwards.
A young fella aspired to be a fiction writer, but had to settle for writing copy in a newspaper. The older wiser journalist told him he’d get plenty of experience writing fiction.
The press can write fiction at least as well as official fiction writers and they can make people focus on nonsense while ignoring much more important stories.
I couldn’t agree more. I regret sending Kucinich money.
Yes, I keep thinking about Elizabeth Edwards and what keeps her going.
A heroic woman, a role model by any standard, and would be incredible campaigner for all Democratic candidates. We could take this country by storm…if we dare it. Elizabeth, I know you read blogs (alone among the spouses, I suspect)–please know how much we love and admire you.
You give ME strength in hard times.
It’s a class issue. Edwards is a striving state-school grad. He just doesn’t have the club membership that Obama, Clinton, Kerry, not to mention Bush, all share. That makes him annoying, because it suggests that Chapel Hill is just as good as Harvard and Yale. Better to ignore him and focus on the ones who understand how to act — you don’t want to seem to be trying too hard, and you don’t get angry or rock the boat beyond a certain amount. It’s not about class at birth or race — Obama is in the club because he paid his dues and learned the right attitudes.