Edwards Touts Trade Policy for Workers

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==By HOLLY RAMER

Associated Press Writer

PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - With intensity that matched the heat, Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards continued his scorching criticism of special interests Saturday, telling voters his trade policies would work for them, not big corporations. ==

==``The question that has been asked as we negotiate our international trade deals has been: 'Is this good for the profits of big multinational corporations?' That's the wrong question,'' he said outside an elementary school. ``The question should be: 'Is this trade agreement good for working middle-class Americans?'''

Edwards said he will insist that the nation's trade partners meet strict labor and environmental standards and will enact regulations barring other countries from manipulating their currencies.==

==`In this country it's power and money, and we the people don't have it,'' said an elderly man said at Merrimack High School. ``You're in a bubble. Look at the Bush family. I voted for them. It was the biggest mistake of my life.''

``Don't put me in that crowd, I don't live there,'' Edwards said. ``You make a mistake when you lump everyone together. ... I actually want to change the way this thing works. I want to see it work for you.'' ==

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1. Good for Edwards! n/t

[Clark2008]

2. No! He lives here:

Most average people live here:

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3. Every presidential candidate is wealthy. That is news?

Here is where some guy named FDR lived:



Why don't you show us Obama's house, Clark's house, Clinton's house, etc.?

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6. FDR inherited that house - he didn't build it for himself for the purpose of self-aggrandizement.

Also, check out the clear-cutting that Edwards did on That House to give himself a couple of insta-meadows on the North Carolina hillsides.

How anyone here at DU can think that this man wouldn't be ridiculed out of contention by the Republicans if he got the nomination is beyond me.

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8. Exactly. One was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, the other is a son of a mill worker

If an aristocrat turned out so great for the poor it is dumb to dismiss a son of a mill worker simply because he, like every other candidate, is wealthy.

The only reason Edwards is singled out is because he is the only candidate making poverty a significant part of his campaign. One other candidate mentioned it once during Edwards' poverty tour. What is the net effect? The rich cannot talk about poverty. Since everyone who runs for prez is rich that means no candidate for prez should dare talk about poverty because he or she will be branded a hypocrite by the corporate media.

So if Edwards lived in a shack he would be a better candidate, in your view? Would it be better if he ignored 37 million Americans in poverty like everyone else and focused on those who vote and make campaign contributions?

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10. He could live in your run-of-the-mill rich-person house like Hillary or Al Gore or whoever,

he'd have no problems. But building your own 28,000-square-foot home, that takes it to a whole nother level. 28,000 is big. Real big. Just one example. Remember when Paris Hilton sprang herself out of jail, and for a few awful days, it seemed as though she might escape the rest of her judicially-mandated incarceration? Newspapers were printing up huge graphics of Paris's cushy Beverly Hills "mansion" where she would get to serve house arrest, delineating all her home's features and amenities. Her mansion: only 2,700 square feet! John Edwards' house is more than TEN TIMES AS LARGE as Paris Hilton's home!
Get your head around that very large fact.

Edwards is "singled out" not because he is the only candidate making poverty a significant part of his campaign: Edwards is "singled out" or more specifically criticized, ridiculed and generally ragged on by the media (and by people like me, I will admit) for one reason alone: because he MAKES IT SO EASY. Why do people rob banks? Because that's where the money is. A similar principle is working here in relation to Mr. Edwards, and his wife, Mac the Knife.

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11. So Edwards would be a better candidate if he lived in a shack?

Should every candidate declare that if he/she wins that instead of living in the White House they will live in a shack?

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12. No, as I tried to say, he'd be better off if he lived in your average

rich-guy's home. Not in a made-to-order 28,000 square-foot behemoth. He should have just bought your standard 2 or 3 million dollar home and be happy enough with that. He could have saved some money that way as well, and hopefully have invested it in something safe, like T bills or mutual funds, rather than subprime-enabling hedgefunds. Just an idea. :shrug:

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13. So your objection is his house is too big for your requirement so he will suck as prez? nt

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14. No, that his house contributes to his overall unelectability. /nt

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4. Most average people live in that little house? Are 10,000,000 of them sleeping on the couch

in the living room?

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5. Being rich is so evil that Clark2008's namesake set a goal of earning $40 million nt

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7. Like your headline. "Touts" is a particularly appropriate word in relation to John Edwards / nt

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9. Ah, Edwards catching Obama has really brought out some latent anti-Edwards sentiment

:bounce: @ people getting scared of a guy they once wrote-off.

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15. Yeah i think so.

I changed from Kucinich to Edwards recently. He's focused on what's really wrong with this country: corruption. He will be as electable as we decide he is. The corrupticons will sling mud and crap at everyone we put out there.