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CheesyMuslim
08-06-2007, 10:57 PM
Sorry bout that,

1. But what if John Edwards gets the nomination, and picks John Kerry as his running mate?
2. That would be something to talk about!
3. What do you guys and gals think?
4. Read this;

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_218160115.html

"

Edwards Talks Trade In Iowa

Samantha Hayes
Reporting

(CBS4) Democratic presidential contender John Edwards continues to separate himself from front running candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama.

Speaking to a crowd of about 300 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Monday Edwards took a shot at former President Clinton, arguing that he allowed corporate insiders to shape the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement that has cost U.S. jobs.

Edward's complaints about the former president is by many as a defiant move meant to highlight rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's relationship with special interests.

It comes two days after Clinton refused Edwards' challenge to stop taking campaign donations from lobbyists, saying many represent good causes.

"It's time that the president stood up and fought for American workers," Edwards told a crowd of about 300 people at a union hall in Cedar Rapids. "It's time to have a president that always puts the interests of the American people first."

While Edwards' speech did not mention the name Clinton, the object of his complaint was obvious. Edwards criticized the presidential leadership during the 1993 passage of NAFTA, which was started by President George H.W. Bush and pushed through by Clinton. He said the trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada was "written by insiders in all three countries."

Edwards said the policies of President George W. Bush have devastated towns and communities all across America, but "this is not just his doing."

"For far too long, presidents from both parties have entered into trade agreements, agreements like NAFTA, promising that they would create millions of new jobs and enrich communities," he said. "Instead, too many of these agreements have cost jobs and devastated towns and communities across this country."

Edwards' remarks come a day before he will share a stage with Hillary Clinton and other Democratic candidates at an AFL-CIO forum in Chicago in which the White House hopefuls will make their appeal to labor.

Meanwhile, the Republican presidential contenders for the most part remain united on leaving U.S. troops in Iraq as part of the war on terror. Senator John McCain predicted a battle in the Senate in September over funding the Iraq war. He says Republicans will prevail because Americans "understand the consequences of failure."

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani criticized Democrats for never using the term "Islamic terrorists," which he says is "taking political correctness to extreme."

On abortion, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney defended his past support for pro-choice policies. Romney says he gets tired of people who act "holier than thou because they've been pro-life longer" than he has.

And like father, like daughter in everything except politics maybe.

The daughter of Republican hopeful Rudy Giuliani is apparently an Obama supporter. An on-line profile indicated that she belonged to Barack Obama's Facebook group. The 17-year-old left the group Monday after the online magazine Slate started asking about it.

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Regards,
SirJamesofTexas

lily
08-06-2007, 11:24 PM
When am I going to learn? Chess, your article has nothing to do with the title of the thread.

Stoner
08-06-2007, 11:32 PM
Didn't work out too well the last time Mr. Flip Flop and the Breck Girl hooked up.

Jaaaman
08-06-2007, 11:34 PM
I don't think Edwards would pick Kerry as a running mate... that would hurt his chances in the general election.

Stoner
08-06-2007, 11:51 PM
I don't think Edwards would pick Kerry as a running mate... that would hurt his chances in the general election.


Edwards is a very distant third. He can't even win his party's election more less the entire nations.

Jaaaman
08-06-2007, 11:57 PM
I don't think Edwards would pick Kerry as a running mate... that would hurt his chances in the general election.


Edwards is a very distant third. He can't even win his party's election more less the entire nations.

I agree... I was just trying to answer Chess's 'what if' question. :ponder:

CheesyMuslim
08-07-2007, 02:22 AM
Sorry bout that,

1. Stranger things have happened.
2. Edwards isn't all that bad, if you compare him to Hillary and Obama.

Regards,
SirJamesofTexas

DANG
08-07-2007, 03:51 AM
Edwards keeps hacking away at her credibility as a Democrat.

Clinton looks like a neo-con next to Edwards.

Taking lobbyist and zionist money. She hasnt spoken out against her hubbys NAFTA crap (that the Cons just love).

This was a good move, for Edwards to talk at a union hall.

I agree with lily.... what does Kerry have to do with ANYTHING at all.

He is way out of the picture.

Viable running mate? Russ Feingold.

DANG
08-09-2007, 05:53 PM
Other "real world" Veeps for Edwards, besides Feingold?

Al Gore, Barbara Boxer and this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wYHfwAx4GE

The video explains one of the best reasons WHY!

You Libertarians should like this video.

How would true Republicans answer the question?

lily
08-10-2007, 12:09 AM
Dang, I admit that was a good clip.........but he stole the show when he said and I'm paraphrasing "When I was a kid it was a joke to say we were digging a hole to China..........."

With that said, of course he's going to get the crowd riled up talking about NAFTA, it was sponsered by the unions.........don't get me wrong, I totally agree but that debate was total pandering to the crowd........I don't think there was one candidate that didn't bring up that they walked side by side in picket lines.


.........oh and for the record I am from Detroit.......total union all the way!

DANG
08-10-2007, 01:11 AM
The only thing I didnt like about that video?
The camera didnt show the expressions of ANY of the other candidates!!

THAT would have been rich.

preservanation
08-10-2007, 01:23 AM
The Dem Candidates...

What a bunch of lying smarmy political hacks.

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_218160115.html

CheesyMuslim
08-10-2007, 01:43 AM
Sorry bout that,

1. But what the hells wrong with local economic links between our three Nations?
2. What a buffoon!
3. We need to make trading partners, and business partners with those Nations above and below USA.
4. This guys a moron!

Regards,
SirJamesofTexas

preservanation
08-10-2007, 01:45 AM
All are woefully ignorant and need to stay on the porch.
A very removed one.

ViolaLee
08-10-2007, 03:46 PM
Really, where is the Kerry reference in the article? This thread makes no sense.

And Dang - Russ Feingold running for anything would get my vote. He's my favorite Senator of all of them.

ed0316
12-16-2007, 09:51 AM
Hillary is owned by corporate lobby groups & her plans for health care include letting the HMOs write their own rules & run the health care industry, as usual. Outsourcing & importation of ever cheaper labor, both legal & illegal, are destroying the wage earners in the US (both professional & trade). Because 1/2 the new graduates in the science & engineering fields can't find jobs in their field, we are suffering a drastic decline in young people majoring in those fields. The H1B visas need to be monitored because it has become obvious they are being used to import cheaper labor, not needed labor.
Edwards seems to be the only candidate willing to address the plight of the wage earning class...

preservanation
12-16-2007, 12:57 PM
You complain about health care costs and at the same time support Edwards????
Do you have any idea what he did for a living???
Smarmy trial lawyer hucksters like himself is why doc's malpractice insurance is so high and we have a shortage of specialist such as OGBYNs.

This forum never ceases to amaze me.