Edwards on C-Span was terrific

[DemDogs]

Same Edwards charm, with a call to return to core Democratic values standing up for people who need a voice. Really moving part of Steak Fry speech on young people and how they spoke with the voice of conscience before and changed the country and how we need them now. He should be our nominee.

Watched Brownback after and he was terrible. Huckabee got better after the bowing to the religious right, but he such sounds like the radio announcer he used to be, and the Rs could do worse.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Brownback is nuts

How embarrassing that he is my senator. :cry:

[Merlot]

2. You're embarrased?

I live in California. We're being terminated. Nuff said.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Brownback is uglier

and Arnold has at least a bit of charisma.

[hopein08]

3. I feel your pain...

Santorum is my senator...but I didn't vote for him so don't blame me!

Did you see that it was Santorum that got Brownback to quit being a Methodist and become an Opus Dei Catholic? I even read one rumor that they were spending a few months living together with the US head of Opus Dei, just the three of them, to find some spiritual clarity or something cracked like that.

I don't know too much about Brownback's background and who he really is. Is there anything I should know, and therefore avoid, about him?

Have to admit that I shut the TV after Edwards was finished. Couldn't stand to watch a guy who brought a Down Syndrome girl to a SCOTUS business meeting.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Brownback is a Catholic now?

My uncle is a priest. I will ask him how we can go about kicking Brownback out. There must be some kind of reverse exorcism or something.

To be honest, I don't know a lot about Brownback. I know I don't like him and that has been enough information for me so far. LOL

[SeaNap05]

6. Edwards is stumping already.

He needs to bring attention to our poverty crisis.

[ngGale]

7. UNC Poverty Center...

created by Edwards, and you are from NC?:blush:

[AmericanDream]

8. Also his speech at the center for american progress was terrific!!

[Cosmocat]

9. Edwards is OK ...

I would back him, cause he is a decent guy ... His poverty thing ... He has been pushing it all year now, and he is one case and point that you can throw back at all the brain numbing "the dems don't have a message" BS ... He was pushy poverty BEFORE New Orleans ...

That being said, I don't think he is the strongest candidate ... I would loke to see him get his spot back in the senate, but the three big dogs right now, IMO, are Clark, Dean and Hillary ...

Also, I caught some of Brownback and the other R ... SAME mindnumbing conservative smoke and mirrors ... We need to get back to our hard working, more values and tax reform BS ... Like, they haven't had a full run on conservative agenda for five years now, and it hasn't been a complete disaster ...

[mountaindem]

10. strongest candidate

the strongest candidate for what?

I will make the argument that we don't know who would be the strongest candidate in 2008 yet. Why? Because first, we don't know who will be seeking the republican nomination yet.
Second, we don't know what the main issues will be. We may be out of Iraq by then, the economy may be stronger, etc.
The candidates of today, may not be the candidates of tomorrow.
I have yet to see Hillary really put strength and conviction behind a major issue.
I have yet to see Wes Clark champion anything, maybe Iraq and foreign policy, if so, it sure hasn't been in the news lately.
All Dean has done is open his mouth and half the time he speaks before he thinks what he is saying. Doesn't he have any strategy or tact to him?
At this point, I'd say the candidates with strength have yet to be seen.