If I remember correctly, didn't I hear someone else talking about uniting the Country? I think he said he was an uniter, not a divider.
Posted by Judith at July 26, 2007 07:15 PMi'd vote for edwards in a flash
Posted by michael72 at July 26, 2007 08:58 PMI'm becoming a shill: Edwards is the obvious choice. He really gets it. Dude's got balls of steel.
Fuck triangulation and compromise. Aren't you tired of being abused? Don't you want more, your American birthright? Fuck this scraps bullshit, I want the meal, and you all ought to want it too. You work hard, you play by the rules, you do your civic duty. You deserve a government that works for you instead of viewing you with sneering contempt.
This is YOUR country. Not Citibank's. Not Pfizer's. Not Exxon's. It's YOUR goddamned country, and you've got a serious candidate putting his ass on the line to give it back to you. No bullshit, no equivocating. Ass on the line.
You all ought to support him. He's what you've been waiting for these past several long dark years.
I'm a cynical, realpolitik kind of guy, but I'm totally comfortable shilling for Edwards. The man is heroic. The elite corporatocracy hates him for a reason; he wants to return the government back to its rightful, constitutionally-mandated owners:
You, the people.
You'll not have a candidate like this again in your lifetimes if you piss this opportunity away.
Posted by God Of War at July 26, 2007 09:30 PMI'm beginning to really dislike Obama. I've gone from finding him an interesting unknown to preferring almost anyone else---even Joe Biden.
If he would stop this bipartistan bullshit, I would think a lot more of him.
We don't need another sanctimonious President---wouldn't that be another form of Bush-light?!
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Amen and Hallejuella God of War! That my man was one helluva speech and I couldn't agree more. Edwards is the one who has the money guys sweating. And I loved Edwards line about TAKING the power from the powers to be because they aint going to be giving it away. We need real change and it ain't going to come with Hillary who is having fund raisers thrown by Murdoch. And it ain't coming from Obama who campaigned for that great Democrat, Joe Lieberman. Its Edwards.
Posted by Howd at July 26, 2007 10:32 PMI'm one of those professional women who despite liking and admiring Hillary personally thinks she should never be president. I have felt and continue to feel guilty as hell about this. Part of the guilt was not understanding the dislike. Her everlasting and opportunity-destroying caution, otherwise known as an disinclination to be first to suggest a solution, or, even more shortly, an inability to lead, always more than annoyed me, but that was only part of the problem.
Lately I've come to feel that a greater obstacle is that Hil is stuck in the 1990s and wants to govern the world as it existed then. While this is certainly better than trying to govern the 1890s the way Republicans want to do, it is not what is needed for a future that is rushing in on us at greater than lightspeed. The US will have been dead in the water for 2 years when GWB leaves office. We do not have time to waste trying to recapture the past.
Same thing for Obama: like him personally, but he's just Jimmy Carter without the sweater. Seems surprising to me more people don't notice that.
Edwards ain't perfect, but he's shown a willingness to change and to think on his feet. Life has knocked him down more than once, and he has come back harder. Liked him in 2004 in the VP slot, and he looks even better now. Just hope he can pull out a win or two in the primaries and astound the pundits and prognosticators who are as usual howling for bygones and supporting the status quo.
Posted by clio at July 26, 2007 11:13 PMGod of War,
excellent post.
I agree with you.
Yes, I do want that.
Got to admit GOW, you make an outstanding case for Edwards.
Currently he is saying the right things while Obama and Clinton duke it out. I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't climb in the polls.
Posted by Seven of Six at July 27, 2007 08:17 AMEdwards' presentation was a bit shallow in 2004, but my-oh-my has he developed depth since then. He's making the others look wishy-washy, calculating, and overly-cautious by comparison today. After listening to him, I'm left scratching my head, trying to remember a single thing any of the others are really advocating. The media is freezing him out because he is the one they fear.
Posted by Julie at July 27, 2007 08:33 AM