Edwards on MSNBC now!

[quinnox]

Should be good, a full hour of questions.

[chimpymustgo]

1. GREAT reception from the crowd.

For the Red Sox, too.

[jenk]

2. this is a gutsy move by him

I hope Edwards can come out of this intact, and in relatively good standing.

[Snellius]

3. Edwards has to get beyond how Bush screwed up

This is not just Edwards problem, of course, but if voters don't hear how he intends to fight the war on terrorism differently, Bush bashing will only go so far.

[Andromeda]

4. He is handling himself very well...

I don't agree with his vote on the resolution but he makes some good points:

1. Edwards would have brought U.S. friends and allies into the decision to invade the war and NOT gone in without their support.

2. British support just wasn't enough, nor was the support of Poland and Outer Mongolia or the island of Togo's half-a-dozen soldiers.

3. He says Bush is trying to get support "after the fact." That's like calling 911 the day after you've been robbed

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[chimpymustgo]

8. I love how he's not taking any sh** from Tweety.

He's got just the right mix of combativeness and humor.

It's early. And this guy is good.

[Andromeda]

6. I think John Edward's performance on Hardball...

will give him a boost with moderate Democrats and Independents. Maybe even some moderate Republicans.

Bush won S. Carolina by about 371,000 votes in 2000. We have to make sure that doesn't happen again.

[FlashHarry]

7. Good and bad...

If it weren't for his unequivocal pro-invasion stance, I could support this guy. It's really frustrating; he's got a lot of good ideas.

Don't get me wrong--I'll vote for the guy with no compunction, if he's the nominee.

[Bombtrack]

22. do you ever step back from you're anti-war mindset and....

think about an alternative and better way to pro-actively illiberalise the middle east, which is what the invasion was basically about.

It had more to do with Ryahd and Tehran in the shortterm and Baghdad in the long term.

Just curious.

[kanrok]

9. Edwards kicking Tweety in the nuts

every time Tweety tries to get Edwards to criticize Kerry and Dean for growing up "rich." Is Matthews mentally deficient? What doesn't he get here?

[FlashHarry]

10. What the hell did Tweety just say about California?

I swear he said it was a cluster f*ck--and then realized he was on the air...

[NewJerseyDem]

21. He said cluster bust

Or something like that. He didn't realize that the show wasn't back on yet and that it was really just one of those things where he says that Hardball will be come back in a few minutes. I guess they call it a cluster buster or something because it breaks up the cluster of commercials.

[quinnox]

11. Superb performance by Edwards

It's a night and day difference between this time and last time he was on with Matthews.

[mandyky]

12. I take back my no Edwards for Dean VP comment

in another thread that has been locked. His domestic stance on the middle class would help Dean a lot. While I don't fault Dean for repealing all of shrub's tax cuts, I wish he'd keep the middle class benefits, but if Dean can create jobs, provide health care, etc. - then that would help the middle class as much as keeping the middle class tax cuts.

[AP]

17. It's not my intention to be confrontational, but...

...I just don't see how we're going to get the middle class pull us out of this sink if we dont undburden them on the tax front. America gets rich from labour. By taxing the hell out of the people who create the most wealth form labour, we're making it too expensive for the middle class do the job they want to do.

[chimpymustgo]

19. Oh, hello. Edwards should be at the top of the ticket.

No way, Dean outflanks him.

[FlashHarry]

13. Tweety: another slam against Gore. Nice.

What a prick.

[Catholic Sensation]

14. This is just something I have been thinking since the first of the debates

But does anyone else feel like Edwards may be campaigning to be the vice presidential nominee? I think personally he could hold his own against Dickhead Cheney, and he has this JFK youth and energy surrounding him that could potentially get Democrats who have lost faith in the party to vote. A Kerry-Edwards or Dean-Edwards ticket would be so much stronger than Gore-Lieberman, and we democrats may win the election again and this time not have the election stole'd from us.

[chimpymustgo]

16. OMG - Edwards is going toe to toe with humor and grace and good ideas.

He has done what I have not seen any other candidate do - disarm the whores with his charm. Clark may be able to do it. Dean - not a chance, Kerry - maybe.

This has been a wonderful performance. Edwards is goooood.

[oasis]

15. Tweety: "people say if the entire Democratic legislature in California

had been on the recall ballot, they would have been thrown out of office as well". What people? And only Democrats in the legislature?

Fuck Tweety.

[FlashHarry]

18. Actually, he's probably right.

People were, rightly or wrongly, very upset with the status quo. I don't doubt that the entire state legislature--dem and 'puke alike--would have been ousted.

I also think that this anti-incumbency bent in CA may spread to the rest of the country. Let's not lose hope just yet.

[AP]

20. I don't think any politicians would survive a vote in which, first, you

vote thumbs up or thumbs done, not knowing whom they're running against, and then you get a speculative vote for any one of hundreds of other candidates.

That kind of ballot is designed to ensure that the incumb. loses.