Don't Count Edwards out for 2008: Middle Class Tax Cuts

[seahawky]

Edwards speaks with a southern wit and comes from a background where he knew what hard times can be like. His ideas of bringing equity back to the middle class is important. The middle class spends the most money. They are the driving force toward our economy. They need assistance sending their children to college. They need assistance having adequate health care for the entire family. These are important issues that John Edwards cares about. A middle class tax cut is what this country needs not a break for the wealthy class. What is right for America should be right for all not the few.

[lady lib]

1. Wouldn't that be great

Imagine, a thoroughly decent, ethical, highly intelligent president with a fantastic first lady. A girl can dream...

[BoogDoc7]

2. Wasn't...

Edwards' dad the manager of that mill?

[high density]

3. Didn't he serve a term in the senate, as well?

But yeah, his dad was a millworker or something like that.

[BoogDoc7]

4. Yeah, but...

He was harping how his dad was a millworker in the campaign, giving the perception that he was on the line when he was really a manager or supervisor instead of a regular worker....which may mean Edwards was middle-class raised, and not a union kid, or underprivileged...maybe.

Just want the whole facts on this...could have been that and STILL struggled as a middle class kid...

[DemDogs]

5. The facts

Edwards' dad started out working third shift in the mills when he graduated from high school. He grew up living in mill villages. His dad worked his way up to supervisor, which he was when Edwards was in high school, but his dad lost that job because he didn't have a college education. Edwards worked his way through college. His brother is an IBEW electrician.

[Adelante]

6. Fine

But this isn't a strictly "Edwards" idea. :shrug:

So did Kerry, so did Clark, so did Dean and others, advocate tax cuts for the middle class. It's a Democratic idea.

[DemDogs]

7. Edwards articulates with the most authority

Another Clark-supporter over-reaction.
Edwards was the first of last year's primary candidates to speak fully about it in his wealth versus work speech. And he spoke about it at the first debate Clark attended, the one where it was clear that Clark didn't know what Fannie Mae did. (It was a tough question but Fannie Mae serves the people Edwards was talking about.)
It was Edwards'formulation, particularly with his background, that gave real power to the position.
And, by the way, Dean's position (which I am not attacking) was not that. Dean said all the tax cuts should be rolled back including the middle class tax cuts.