John Nichols: Anti-corporate Edwards has good shot in Iowa

[smokey nj]

I just saw this at BuzzFlash.com and it made me smile, so I thought I'd share. I'd post it in GD-P, but that place scares me. :scared:

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/262737

No serious observer of the Des Moines debate between the Democratic candidates for president doubted that the standout performance, and the standout message, was that of former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.

Indeed, undecided voters assembled in focus groups that watched the debate for the major television networks rated Edwards off the charts. That's going to help the 2004 Democratic nominee for vice president as the Iowa caucuses approach. Despite the intense focus on the campaigns of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, most polls suggest that Edwards is very much in the running in Iowa. And rightly so.

To a far greater extent than Obama or Clinton, Edwards is striking at the heart of issues that should matter most in the race to replace not just George W. Bush, but the Bush agenda of corporate giveaways, job-crushing free trade deals, war profiteering in Iraq, and subprime mortgage profiteering in Indiana, Idaho, Illinois and, yes, Iowa.

Edwards summed up his increasingly aggressive and powerful anti-corporate themes with a declaration: "What makes America America is at stake: jobs, the middle class, health care, preserving the environment in the world for future generations. <snip>

[frogmarch]

1. Thanks for posting this! I'd have

posted my response to it sooner, but I was too busy dancing around in glee, and in spirit, high-fiving everyone here in the JE group!

[smokey nj]

2. John Edwards supporters are a great bunch, if I do say so myself.

[saltpoint]

3. I had the same response, frogmarch. And Nichols is a pretty sharp

customer.

So I think this will have a strong ripple effect.