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ArtieBoy Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 03:50 AM
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Clinton secret power behind Edwards?
Here's an interesting article I just ran across while reading up on John Edwards. You may have seen it, too. Sounds good to me!

Now, the big Clinton Democrat machine seems to be zeroing in on a potential candidate for the 2004 presidential race, and it's not Al Gore. Enter John Edwards.

Edwards is a "made for television" youthful-looking "moderate" who gives the appearance of pumping "new blood" into a potential Democratic 2004 primary field that's filled with time-tested losers. Does that description sound familiar? If not, one need only remember the endless mantras of "a need for a fresh face" and to "abandon the old party hard-liners" that we heard so often in the 1992 primary battle that Clinton eventually won...

Of course, Edwards isn't officially running for president, at least not yet. Even so, insiders from Des Moines to Delray Beach, Fla., seem to be cued in on a secret: "the force is with him."


http://www.insideradvantage.com/stories/2002/mar/13/350333.shtml
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lcordero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 04:00 AM
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1. At the first debate that I saw him
He said in a snide way, "are you better off than you were four years ago?"
It was hilarious.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 04:04 AM
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2. That was two years ago...and then there was Clark.
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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 04:05 AM
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3. Circumstance can change, however in early 2002 Clinton
was at a University and in the Q/A he was asked who he liked in 04. He said, "there's a young senator from the south who reminds me a lot of myself."

Clinton was given the nod by people who liked nothing more than the fact that he could win. They didn't care that he wasn't an insider. Maybe Clinton's passing on the love?
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Sugarbleus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 04:08 AM
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4. After Kucinich, I like Edwards a great deal n/t
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 04:08 AM
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5. Watch this and you tell me!
Grab a beer or :smoke: before you do though! I promise you'll like it!

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/rovers.html
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Cheswick2.0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 04:19 AM
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6. I thought he was the secret power behind Clark
Maybe his secret power is not really so powerful.
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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 04:24 AM
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7. Maybe he thinks Kerry and Clark will divide the dem war voters,, but
in the process will remind voters that Dems aren't chickenhawks and maybe thinks that one that does better can be Edwards's VP.

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