DFA on Global Warming: First Again, Edwards Responds.

[ClassWarrior]

Dear CW,

Democracy for America members are keeping the pressure up on the Democratic candidates for President. We're demanding they stay true to progressive principles and articulate a clear vision on the most important issues of our time. In March, Senator Edwards was the first to state his position on Iraq in a video directly to you.

Last month, DFA members asked the candidates to lead America forward with a plan to stop global warming, encourage conservation and invest in renewable resources. Senator John Edwards is again the first candidate to respond:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/edwardsenergy

Senator Edwards takes three minutes to lay out every aspect of his plan. You won't hear responses like this at the primary debates or in a T.V. commercial. The mainstream media acts like it doesn't have time and won't pay attention to the detail. But we will.

The core of Senator Edwards' plan is "to ask Americans to be patriotic about something other than war." Hear the whole plan:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/edwardsenergy

There are many great candidates running for President. It is up to each of us to find the candidate that best represents our views and do everything we can to help them win. A healthy primary challenge will make our eventual nominee stronger and the progressive movement more powerful. That's why DFA brings these videos directly to you as an honest broker in your decision making process. This is NOT an endorsement of Senator Edwards' campaign. However, if you like what you hear today, you can join his campaign at:

http://www.johnedwards.com

Thank you everything you do,

Tom Hughes
Executive Director

P.S. We will continue pressuring the candidates to take positions and share them directly with you. If your favorite candidate hasn't sent DFA a response yet, please e-mail the campaign and ask them why not.

I'll also post the video in the Political Videos forum.

NGU.

[Catchawave]

1. Thanks for posting this....

Great video :hi:

[mnhtnbb]

2. Edwards continues to impress.

[PresidentObama]

3. Yes, sir. This is why Edwards has my vote.

:thumbsup:

[ClassWarrior]

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[ClassWarrior]

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[NastyRiffraff]

5. Edwards gets more impressive..

the more I see of him. First with a Health Care plan, first with an energy plan.

[Jillian]

6. Edwards uses smooth talk while Biden gets things done

from Joebiden.com

U.S. Should Lead Fight Against Global Warming
Published: 05/07/2007

By Joseph Biden

The physical consequences of global warming are right before our eyes. Those who don't see, or choose to dismiss, the effects – such as the shrinking polar ice cap, the retreating glaciers, the horrific storms – remind me of those who refused to see that the world was round. The science is clear: our world is changing and the U.S. cannot continue on a path of passive indifference. We must cap greenhouse gas emissions here in the United States and restore our position as a leader to a global solution.

cont -
In response to this impasse, I have joined with my colleague Senator Dick Lugar to pass a resolution calling for a return of the United States to a leadership role in the international negotiations on climate change. The effects of global warming know no borders, but rather than leading by example, the U.S. has retreated from meaningful, binding, multilateral international negotiations that help deal with this growing problem. This resolution will turn this retreat into re-engagement.

The resolution is already the first climate change legislation to pass out of any committee this Congress and calls for United States participation in negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was signed by the first President Bush. The resolution states that the evidence of the human role in global warming is clear; the toll will be costly; and the response must be international.

for the rest of his comments
http://www.joebiden.com/getinformed/opeds?id=0088

[karynnj]

11. it may be the first the first to pass out of committee

But ist won't be the first argued on the Seante floor. Kerry and Feingold had an amendment - which failed with 51 votes - that was already debated on the Senate floor to insure that Climate change was considered in all water projects.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:SP01094:

Senator Kerry and Senator Inhofe debated it - leading Boxer to say that she enjoyed having a rest from being the one debating him.

[ClassWarrior]

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[ClassWarrior]

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[bgmark2]

10. world changing

the ozone layer was disappearing afew years ago, at such a rate we would have to launch rockets up there to fix it...get the similarity...there are cliamtic changes but to blame it on co2 is premature, and stupid if you can't do anything about it apart from reduce gdp by 30% or population. The russian scientists laughed the western scientists out of town when it was theory was proposed to them, they have entered the kyoto because they 12 years of craabon credits that they can sell before they leave this absurb scheme

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. It's Global Heating, not just warming. Summers are going to be Hot.

Time to do some framing of our own. Enough with the Frank Luntz framing of "climate change", and "global warming" is not a strong enough identification of the real challenge.

It is Global Heating, folks.

Only winters are going to seem warm. Summers are going to be hot, hot, hot.

What's with the multiple dotted posts? Self deletions or gratuitous self-bumping?