Why would John Edwards support a man who voted for this?

[saracat]

On February 10, 2005, Obama voted in favor of the passage of the misnamed Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 which seriously hampers the rights of ordinary citizens to challenge corporations. Senators Biden, Boxer, Byrd, Clinton, Corzine, Durbin, Feingold, Kerry Leah, Reid and 16 other democrats voted against it.

So did 14 state attorneys general, including Lisa Madigan of Obama’s home state of Illinois. She called it a “corporate giveaway.” The Senate also received a desperate plea from more than 40 civil rights and labor organizations, including the NAACP, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Human Rights Campaign, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Justice and Democracy, Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense Fund) and Alliance for Justice. SOURCE

They wrote:

“Under the Act citizens are denied the right to use their own state courts to bring class actions against corporations that violate state wage and hour and state civil rights laws, even where that corporation has hundreds of employees in that state. Moving these state law cases into federal court will delay and likely deny justice for working men and women and victims of discrimination. The federal courts are already overburdened. Additionally, federal courts are less likely to certify classes or provide relief for violations of state law”

The bill which will seriously impair labor, consumer and civil rights involved five years of pressure from 100 corporations, 475 lobbyists, and tens of millions of corporate dollars to buy influence. It also involved the active participation of the Wall Street firms now funding the Obama campaign. The Civil Justice Reform Group, a business alliance comprising general counsels from Fortune 100 firms, was instrumental in drafting the class action bill, according to Public Citizen which also said in a 2003 report that Mayer-Brown partners and employees gave close to $100,000 <$92,817> to the Obama campaign by December 31, 2007. Mayer-Brown, hired by the US Chamber of Commerce, spent $16 million in 2003 lobbying the government on class action reform.”

[waiting for hope]

1. I'm thinking maybe he didn't read it -

after seeing the title, of course.

[Ninga]

2. Do not be surprised to find that perfection does not exist. John Edwards was far

from perfect.

In fact, he may be flawed.

[Seabiscuit]

6. I got the impression Saracat was asking a rhetorical question, as in

how could anyone imagine that John Edwards could ever support a man who voted for this?

[bpeale]

3. obama has been in the senate long enough to know

that whatever the bill is called is the opposite of what it is intended. he should have known better. obama is no friend of working class people and i don't believe his vote for this bill was an accident or that he didn't read it. hell, he voted present how many times instead of voting yea or nay? it's bullshit. he could have abstained.

[waiting for hope]

4. He's pretty good at doing that.

Isn't that a bit like voting "Present"?

[ClericJohnPreston]

5. Obama is as bad as any Republican

PERIOD! If anyone wants to know why ClericJohnPreston is so PRO-Edwards and so ANTI-Obama, it is because I detest CORPORATISM, the bane of our society and a free Democratic Republic.

Obama is CORPORATIST through and through, from his votes, his financing, and his Pro-insurance and corporation decisions. Long before he outed himself as a "bi-partisan" ( read that REPUBLICAN-LITE ), he has embraced the corporate world. Corporatism is antithetical to a free society.