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Gee I’m shocked that progressive proposals didn’t make thru a GOP controlled Congress. Think last month’s election might have been about that?

Nah!

WOW! He moved his lips on two occasions, both unsuccessful. John Edwards also sought to “shine a bright light on poverty” and raise the minimum wage to a whopping .25/hr (the increase to be spread out over a year so as to not unduly burden the business sector).

Campaigning in ’04, he said he wants to “finish the job of (Clinton’s) welfare reform”. Given the disasterous results of that mid-90s fiasco, Edward’s comment should send shivers up the spines of tens of millions of Americans living one paycheck away from our nation’s sick excuse for a ‘safety net’.

PS: He voted for Bush’s ‘No Child Left Behind Act” which is doing to our education system what Clinton did to our welfare system.

That’s better than having “Clinton” for a last name

Pinochet’s grandson should have gotten a pass given the occasion he chose for his venting. Now the fascists have a martyr.

The Department of Defense has identified 2,928 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday:

DAVIS, Gloria D., 47, Maj., Army; St. Louis; Defense Security Assistance Agency.

If ‘talk’ gets you off soooooo good then maybe you should try phone sex! What has Edwards DONE for the poor in this country? What bills has he sponsored that address poverty related issues?

I’m dying to be proven wrong about Edwards but unless you can come up with something tangible, I am going to be forced to continue believing that he’s just one more blow-dryed, Kennedy-liberal wind-bag brandishing an arsenal of eloquent sound-bite pronouncements, hoping that nobody gets past the rhetoric to actually look at what the MFer has done…

But don’t sell John Edwards short. He now admits he was wrong to vote for the resolution and he is still the only potential candidate that talks about the scandal of poverty in this country. We could do a lot worse.

(2) “And I thought Kucinich was so far above many of the very strange folks he was attracting.”

In contrast, presumably, to John Edward’s ultra-hip liberal supporters, lapping up every word of his grotesquely Clintonesque “If your grandpa/grandfather/momma/daddy/brother/sister says that they can’t pay their bills, you tell them, HOPE IS ON THE WAY” speech in between doing that innovative macarena thing a couple of years ago at the Dem Convention. And we could go into Barak Obama’s lib express, but I will spare us.

I for one won’t withhold support from a candidate just because someone like Marc Cooper doesn’t think that his or her supporters aren’t hep cats. Anyone who does isn’t really serious. It is too bad that our politics these days are shaped by what seems “cool” in the pages of Vanity Fair.

(2) “And I thought Kucinich was so far above many of the very strange folks he was attracting.”

In contrast, presumably, to John Edward’s ultra-hip liberal supporters, lapping up every word of his grotesquely Clintonesque “If your grandpa/grandfather/momma/daddy/brother/sister says that they can’t pay their bills, you tell them, HOPE IS ON THE WAY” speech in between doing that innovative macarena thing a couple of years ago at the Dem Convention. And we could go into Barak Obama’s lib express, but I will spare us.

I for one won’t withhold support from a candidate just because someone like Marc Cooper doesn’t think that his or her supporters aren’t hep cats. Anyone who does isn’t really serious. It is too bad that our politics these days are shaped by what seems “cool” in the pages of Vanity Fair.