MSNBC: John Edwards takes page from RFK's book

[Catchawave]

Poverty tour message, locations reminiscent of Kennedy's in '68


WASHINGTON - The campaign of presidential hopeful John Edwards has a ready answer for all the criticism about his expensive haircuts and expansive home: A man can be wealthy and care about the poor, too.

Just look at a Democratic hero — Robert F. Kennedy.

Edwards, the 2004 vice presidential nominee, plans to spend three days next week on a poverty tour reminiscent of Kennedy's 1968 trip. Edwards even plans to end his journey where Kennedy did some 40 years ago, in Prestonsburg, Ky.

More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19725425/

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. My fav RFK photo

Bedford-Stuyvesent NY 1966

[saltpoint]

3. Not surprisingly, this is a great post.

The association of RFK's concerns and John Edwards' is a dead-on bullseye for me.

Yes and yes.

[Catchawave]

9. I thought so :)

:hi:

RFK had his critics too, what could have been...sigh.

[saltpoint]

10. A warm howdy to ya, Catchawave.

Still keen as ever and do I ever love the association between two very great spirits.

Great post.

Thanks.

[flpoljunkie]

8. A great b&w photo. It almost speaks to you. Thanks for sharing.

[AndyA]

2. Well now I can think of one reason to be happy that the Ambassador Hotel

in Los Angeles has been torn down...no historical repeats. Hard to believe it's been almost 40 years since that awful tragedy.

[benny05]

4. yeah, they remind me of one another

It's time we started "waking up" as Melissa Etheridge would say, to an "inconvenient truth".

[jsamuel]

5. That is a mixed article, but at least it doesn't tell you what to think like the NYT does.

[Catchawave]

6. Oh, I see what you mean now....

but I like that they included his quote "Let them attack!" which has become a rallying cry for his supporters!

Makes you wonder if the AP won't publish an article about Edwards without the word "hypocrisy" used in a sentence !? Like they do mentioning Obama's race or Hillary's husband....oh my :D I get so tired of reading such shrilly jabs at our candidates.

Now, on the other hand, the Republicans don't get nearly the tabloid treatment which proves the corporate media wants a Bush Third Term :banghead:

[pioneer111]

7. Dealing with poverty expands the middle class

Edwards tour is looking at the NEW faces of poverty that have emerged from poor Republican policies.
There are good solutions available with better policies.
If we lift people out of poverty by giving them new opportunities to work, we expand the middle class and we lift the others even higher.
I look forward to hearing and seeing more about this tour.

[bobbolink]

11. What happens to those who can't work?

We throw ourselves off a cliff?

[dflprincess]

12. Wellstone did this in 1997

http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/palmeri/commentary/thankyoupaulwellstone.htm

In 1967 Bobby Kennedy dramatized the problem of poverty in America when he toured its poorest regions. Thirty years later, Senator Wellstone retraced the tour. Sadly, he found that even with the alleged economic boom times of the 1990s, poverty conditions in America's poorest regions had changed little in 30 years. And whereas the national media treated Kennedy's tour as newsworthy, in 1997 Wellstone had to fight for attention. Most Minnesotans and Americans in general are not even aware that Wellstone took the poverty tour, but I suspect as time goes on this will be one of his enduring legacies. Probably the greatest way to pay tribute to Wellstone would be to become as impassioned about the elimination of poverty as he so that when the next principled traveler takes the tour in 2027, he or she will find little misery to report on.

I hope Edwards gets more press.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

13. Thanks for pointing that out

Wellstone was truly a great person. It is a shame he is no longer with us. We could really use his voice these days.