Edwards is the Dems best chance at blowing the GOP out of the water...

[urbuddha]

Edwards has many good points that most Democrats can agree on.
One thing he has over all of the other candidates is he is better
looking. Most Americans are not smart enough to delve past the surface
and regard this as another beauty pageant,anyways.
Vote for John Edwards and win big !:party:

[earthlover]

1. Oh gee...then why not nominate Brad Pitt and be done with it?

[Labors of Hercules]

2. Is he running?

Can I join his campaign?:sarcasm:

[Imagevision]

3. Edwards is good, however I must observe how and what Obama and Hillary have to say..

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

4. I agree with the caller to Ed Schultz...

Gore/Obama 2008: Experience, commitment, progress.

Ron

[earthlover]

6. gore/obama would be good...

Clark/Obama would be unbeatable! For that matter Obama/Clark would be unbeatable. Clark would compliment Obama's weaknesses in foreign policy and experience,not to mention his age. Not that Clark is old! A great ticket, either way.

[bigdarryl]

12. PLEASE get off this Gore shit he's said he isn't running

[Catchawave]

14. Are you referring to the Newsmax/Reuters story?

If so, I believe it's been debunked.

[1932]

23. How many people who didn't vote for Gore in 2000 are going to vote for him now?

And do you really think everyone who voted for him would still vote for him?

Gore is a decent human being with good environmentalist cred, but he does not have a stong enough identity, and I doubt that there will ever be a president elected on that one issue.

[politicasista]

5. Can I nominate Denzel Washington for president? n/t

[FrenchieCat]

18. You may....and I will like to work with you on that campaign!

Cause you will be needing my helpt! :patriot:

[MrRobotsHolyOrders]

7. Well fuck it

I'm sold.

Vote For John Edwards: He Got A Real Purty Mouth

[chimpymustgo]

9. LOL. I support Edwards for many, many other reasons: his concern about

poverty, and efforts to eradicate it. He will truly fight for the poor and the middle class. I think he has a caring world view.

Actually, I don't think his mouth is his best feature. :smile:

[MrRobotsHolyOrders]

10. You completely missed the point of this post

Poverty is a bullshit non-issue. John Edwards is pretty, hence the winner. I hope the Republicans don't nominate Sam Brownback though. He's also extremely pretty, and we don't want voters to get confused over which candidate is which.

[rhombus]

21. He's got purrrtttty hair. meow. :)

Vote the good hair candidate or die!

[MrRobotsHolyOrders]

22. Its official

Creepy, yo, creepy.

[generaldemocrat]

8. Are you for real???

Edwards has many good points that most Democrats can agree on.
One thing he has over all of the other candidates is he is better
looking. Most Americans are not smart enough to delve past the surface
and regard this as another beauty pageant,anyways.

Thank you for proving, as an Edwards supporter, that there is not one tangible reason to vote for this guy. "Vote for me cuz ah look good! At least when I co-sponsored IWR I did it with a smile on my face." LOL, are you for real?

I'm sure that good looks crap will come in handy when he has to face off with real world problems and tough decisions.

[Pyrzqxgl]

11. Don't be too sure of that. Good looks & charm matter a lot

Edwards has both & is in the right place on a lot of issues. And yeah the good looks & charm will matter when he faces off with real world problems, so will ideas & strength of character & he certainly is strong in that department

[FrenchieCat]

15. Well thank God, I ain't that Stupid!

Wonder if his face will be all that he has left to sell, once the folks in Iowa realize the fact that Edwards didn't really write or sponsor any poverty legislation during his six years in office and this extreme concern for poverty appeared round November of 2003, as he was fighting to stay up in the polls while running for President? Well, I'm sure that the press will never tell a soul....they seem to like the guy...for whatever their reason.

Wonder if he'll bring up the importance of restoring the Fairness Doctrine or make mention of the voting machine anytime soon? :shrug:

[1932]

24. Interestingly, FDR was criticized for being nothing more than a good-looking charmer

with no substance.

A lot of smart people (like HL Mencken) didn't understand what FDR was all about and didn't get his strategy.

[bigdarryl]

13. Urbudda has a point the Presidential election is a beauty contest

we alway talk about how a candidate performs in a debate. all i have to say is this is the first Presidential election i have ever seen where the three top candidates on the dem side are all Charismatic. Hillary Obama Edwards they all look good on TV and light up a room when they inter

[FrenchieCat]

17. You may be right......that American Idol politics is where we are.....

But charismatic is subjective.....

Thank goodness I'm supporting someone that I consider Charismatic and someone who also does successful Peace treaties and has led and planned wars that ended without any American Casualty. A looker who's also a Rhodes Scholar, a southerner who can rebuild the engine in a car himself, and who made less than $50,000 until he was in his 50's cause that's what he chose to do.

Someone who's spoken on the Fairness Doctrine and understands the issue with voting machines.

Someone who was prescient enough to know which was was up when it was important....
and said the following back in September of 2002...not October of 2005! :eyes:

"The war is unpredictable and could be difficult and costly. And what is at risk in the aftermath is an open-ended American ground commitment in Iraq and an even deeper sense of humiliation in the Arab world, which could intensify our problems in the region and elsewhere.

we're going to have chaos in that region....; in fact, what may happen is that we'll remove a repressive regime and have it replaced with a fundamentalist regime which contributes to the strategic problem rather than helping to solve it.

Then we're dealing with the longer mid term, the mid term problems. Will Iraq be able to establish a government that holds it together or will it fragment? There are strong factionary forces at work in Iraq and they will continue to be exacerbated by regional tensions in the area. The Shia in the south will be pulled by the Iranians.
The Kurds want their own organization. The Kurds will be hemmed in by the Turks. The Iraqis also, the Iranians also are nervous of the Kurds. But nevertheless, the Kurds have a certain mass and momentum that they've built up. They will have to work to establish their participation in the government or their own identity."

We've encouraged Saddam Hussein and supported him as he attacked against Iran in an effort to prevent Iranian destabilization of the Gulf. That came back and bit us when Saddam Hussein then moved against Kuwait. We encouraged the Saudis and the Pakistanis to work with the Afghans and build an army of God, the mujahaddin, to oppose the Soviets in Afghanistan. Now we have released tens of thousands of these Holy warriors, some of whom have turned against us and formed Al Qaida.
My French friends constantly remind me that these are problems that we had a hand in creating. So when it comes to creating another strategy, which is built around the intrusion into the region by U.S. forces, all the warning signs should be flashing. There are unintended consequences when force is used. Use it as a last resort. Use it multilaterally if you can. Use it unilaterally only if you must."
http://www.rapidfire-silverbullets.com/2007/01/mining_and_finding_prescient_g.html

And Thank God he looks good too!




and that his wife ain't exactly chicken liver either!

[zulchzulu]

16. Do you know how to put a sarcasm smiley in a post?

It's easy.

:sarcasm:

I'm assuming you're joking...

[IndianaGreen]

19. Edwards is doing quite well, and he is saying the right things

We are a long ways from the first primary and caucus, but Edwards' supporters must be feeling pretty good about their candidate right now.

[AJH032]

20. Edwards is the one Democrat

I can honestly say I don't like. If he somehow unfortunately becomes our nominee, I guess I would vote for him, but I would have a very very tough time doing it.

[GreenArrow]

25. why don't you like him?

If you don't mind me asking.

[AJH032]

27. I don't mind

It's not that I disagree with him on most policy. It's just that whenever I hear him speak, he seems to rely too much on charisma or looks and I don't feel I can trust him. I wish he would have stayed a Senator, I think he's better there.

[GreenArrow]

29. thanks,

That seems to be a fairly common impression. He's awfully slick.

[election_2004]

26. Edwards isn't my first choice, but....

I'd take him over Senator Clinton or Senator Biden - - in a heartbeat!!!

And Elizabeth would make a DYNAMITE First Lady!

[xkenx]

28. Yeah, if you want to vote for a co-sponsor of the IWR, when all the Dems.

had all the information needed to vote "NO." Most of the "YES" votes from Dems. were out of political calculation/moral cowardice. I want someone in the White House who will have the courage to do the right thing, regardless. After 3000+ American deaths, the loss of our stature in the world, the destruction of Iraq, the degrading of our military, the loss to our treasury for fighting poverty and and and, saying "Oops I goofed" doesn't cut it. Putting someone like that in the White House is like having the same surgeon who mistakenly amputated the wrong foot do your next surgery.