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Posted by keithsan on :
 
It’s all part of a pattern in which Edwards does one thing, and then says another. In September, Edwards said Congress needed to send to the troops in Iraq “what they need” because “they’re in a shooting gallery, a very dangerous situation.” A month later, he voted against $87 billion in funding for those same troops, parts of which would have paid for body armor, increased imminent danger pay for soldiers and family separation allowances, things that would help that struggling military wife he now claims he’s looking out for.

Despite that vote, Edwards once again promised last week to “invest in the new equipment and technologies so that our military remains the best equipped and best trained in the world. This will make our military stronger so we're able to defeat every enemy in this new world.” Of course, it remains unclear how Edwards’ vote in 1999 to reduce defense spending by $3.1 billion furthered his goal of “defeating every enemy.”


 


Posted by keithsan on :
 
The real story of Edwards’ short political career is one of hypocrisy, cheap rip-offs, flip-flops and boneheaded moves. But in the media’s version of the story, Edwards is the political prodigy who is going get John Kerry elected president, forgetting that had Kerry not picked him as his running mate last month, the tattered thread by which Edwards’ political career had long been hanging would have snapped.

Given the media coverage surrounding Edwards, it’s easy to forget that the man has been elected to something exactly once in his life, barely sliding past incumbent Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth with just 51 percent of the vote in 1998 after Faircloth ran one of the lousiest campaigns in North Carolina electoral history. Of the18 candidates to run statewide in North Carolina in a general election in the last decade, Faircloth got the fewest votes. Edwards didn’t do much better. He was third from the bottom of the heap.


 


Posted by keithsan on :
 
WOW no draft

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Vice presidential candidate John Edwards promised a West Virginia mother on Wednesday that if the Democratic ticket is elected in November the military draft would not be revived.

 


Posted by keithsan on :
 
John Edwards statements on the Iraq war. Before and after Presidential dreams:

"I think Iraq is the most serious and imminent threat to our country," John Edwards said on February 24, 2002
Later in the year, when appearing on "The Big Story with John Gibson," Edwards had this to say after being asked if he thought "the president should act, even if the United Nations does not grant him permission?"

Edwards: "Oh, I don't think we should be bound by what the United Nations does. I mean, we should do everything in our power to try to get the United Nations resolution. We should do everything in our power to try to build an ally - a group of allies and a coalition to support what it is we're doing. But, at the end of the day, this is something that we have to show leadership on."

In fact, John Edwards, "cosponsored a resolution authorizing the president to use military force to defend the United States against Iraq and enforce relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq."

"This resolution will show that America is united in its determination to eliminate forever the threat of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction," Senator Edwards said.

On the eve of the war, Edwards continued his praise for George W. Bush stating that:

"It is also a test of Presidential leadership to have the backbone to say to those who strongly disagree with you — including your friends — what you believe. I believe that Saddam Hussein is a serious threat and that he must be disarmed, including with military force if necessary."

Just a few short days after the war began, Edwards had this to say:

"Saddam Hussein alone has chosen war over peace. He has defied international law rather than disarm his weapons of mass destruction. Our world will be safer when he is gone."

But after falling behind to Dean's "Anti-War," rhetoric, Edwards flipped his mind and began singing another tune. And now --- now that John Edwards is running along his counter part, Flipper Kerry, Flopin' Edwards has this to say about the war:

"With John Kerry as president no young American will ever go to war needlessly because America has decided to go it alone."


 


Posted by glassman on :
 
don't forget the 40 or so odd million he made by suing those poor doctors for malpractice thereby making your health insurance bill go up 100%...LOl
 
Posted by keithsan on :
 
ya, i wanted to counter the cheney thread without standing up for him.

what is this guy 12 -LOL not much out there on him very liberal etc... tax the crap out of us ....

same ole same ole
 


Posted by glassman on :
 
good....
we really haven't gotten much going here about Kerry and Edwards...

i have been railing about all the spin, but not really getting any feedback about the real people....

check this out...my googles only turn out the ONE article, no follow-ups at all. if this is true?????? things are even worse than my wildest speculations.....
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-284060,00.html

London Times (Times Online)

September 27, 2001

Bin Laden's trail

Rushdie's air ban
BY JAMES DORAN

THE author Salman Rushdie believes that US authorities knew of an imminent terrorist strike when they banned him from taking internal flights in Canada and the US only a week before the attacks.
On September 3 the Federal Aviation Authority made an emergency ruling to prevent Mr Rushdie from flying unless airlines complied with strict and costly security measures. Mr Rushdie told The Times that the airlines would not upgrade their security.

The FAA told the author’s publisher that US intelligence had given warning of “something out there” but failed to give any further details.

The FAA confirmed that it stepped up security measures concerning Mr Rushdie but refused to give a reason.


anybody got anything to add here????
 


Posted by Wallace#1 on :
 
Who would you both have preferred running for Pres. on both sides. I like McCain...maybe because he's a bit of a maverick, but I think it's because he calls it as he sees it.
 
Posted by keithsan on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Wallace#1:
Who would you both have preferred running for Pres. on both sides. I like McCain...maybe because he's a bit of a maverick, but I think it's because he calls it as he sees it.

I like the ones i see as straight forward, mccain works for me, but i dont think he has appeal. i like mitt romney also for repubs.

dems, i didn't like their pool this year maybe Zell....JK. I some what like gephardt but he's also kind of lame...


 


Posted by keithsan on :
 
ok, this guy is a jerk.

during trial he would speak for babies with cerebal palsy etc.....

saying what they told him....

whack job.

Edwards' trial summaries "routinely went beyond a recitation of his case to a heart-wrenching plea to jurors to listen to the unspoken voices of injured children," according to a comprehensive analysis of Edwards' legal career by The Boston Globe in 2003.

The Globe cited an example of Edwards' oratorical skills from a medical malpractice trial in 1985. Edwards had alleged that a doctor and a hospital had been responsible for the cerebral palsy afflicting then-five-year-old Jennifer Campbell.

'I have to tell you right now -- I didn't plan to talk about this -- right now I feel her (Jennifer), I feel her presence,' Edwards told the jury according to court records. "[Jennifer's] inside me and she's talking to you ... And this is what she says to you. She says, 'I don't ask for your pity. What I ask for is your strength. And I don't ask for your sympathy, but I do ask for your courage.'"

Edwards' emotional plea worked. Jennifer Campbell's family won a record jury verdict of $6.5 million against the hospital where the girl was born -- a judgment reduced later to $2.75 million on appeal. Edwards also settled with Jennifer's obstetrician for $1.5 million.
 


Posted by glassman on :
 
sounds like he is a good actor....LOL

what do you want me to say?

if docotors never messed up, they wouldn't be getting sued....

CDC releases mal-practice data regularly, i can't find it on their web-sites....i don't know why it's so hard to find...LOL

do you realize that the AMA is the biggest ANTI-TRUST violation on the planet and nobody even NOTICES? when was the last time you saw a price sheet BEFORE the bill? LOL

oh yeah, and where do you go to find out if you're doctor is any good? well they have a a well uh a uh ????????????duhhhh

the AMA RESTRICTS the number of seats available in medical school, and rarely fails anybody out ONCE they are accepted...
what some of them are willing to do to get accepted is obscene......

hey, what kind of law you do plan to practice keith????...LOL
 


Posted by keithsan on :
 
i think i will channel the fetus' after abortion and sue both the parent and the doctor- I will need some help from that jamaican lady on tv that can tell my future.

LOL

supposed to take bar in feb........wife studying for her test now.
 


Posted by ohdagagain on :
 
I have never been ashamed or embarrassed to say I am from North Carolina until tonight. edwards is a true disgrace to North Carolina. Thankfully he was born in South Carolina, sorry to any South Carolinians for pointing that out, but it was my fellow North Carolinians that voted him into senate, sorry to all of you for that one, but i didnt vote for him. hope you all enjoyed the VP debate.
Frank
 


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