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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:47 PM Original message |
MoJo's David Corn: The John Edwards Endorsement: A Last Chance to Prove He's No Phony |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. David Corn = Blowhard |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 03:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
46. The NYTs Public Editor used Corn as liberal cred that nothing happened |
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AndyA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. I don't think Edwards HAS to support ANYONE. |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
60. ME EITHER! To Keep His Name Viable For Four Years, It May Be |
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LSparkle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. I was an Edwards supporter and was criticized for believing in him |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Why? How could he endorse Obama and turn his back on his own health care plan? |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. You call yourself an Edwards supporter? His signature issue is Poverty. Obama has a holistic |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:59 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Edwards would support Hillary over his health care, immigration and Iraq policy similarities. |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:01 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. And she is closer to him on trade too. Trade has always been a big issue for Edwards |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #23 |
51. Uh... NO. Hillary Clinton is the ultimate free trader |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:02 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. Edwards was "impressed" by Hillary's specific proposals on poverty when they met |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
42. Not that obviously, you have seen. And healthcare was just as much John's issue as poverty. |
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newmajority (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Why would Edwards endorse Hillary's Romneycare II |
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Garbo 2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 04:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
56. Hillary's health plan mimics Edwards' plan. Guess you missed all howls here about E's mandated |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 11:29 AM Response to Reply #7 |
72. As Obama said, "Ted kennedy would not have endorsed him if he were |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. I will have to do the same. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Why? How could he abandon his own heathcare plan? |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:00 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. How could he abandon his Signature Issue, POVERTY? Hillary has Jack Shit regarding policy positions |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:03 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Health care is not a poverty issue? |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #22 |
35. John has publicly stated he was impressed by the substantive nature of Hillary's propsals on poverty |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:30 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. Saracat, I have a different take on it after stepping back the last 2 weeks |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:39 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. In my red state, where my husband is running for state senate in a GOP |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 04:18 PM Response to Reply #41 |
53. I appreciate that. PA has't voted yet -- so we have to take the chances we see in our districts! |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:26 PM Response to Reply #41 |
61. And In MY Red State Too! Very Little Good Happens In MY State!! |
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cbayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 03:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
43. Just having a page named "Poverty", does not a policy make. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 03:12 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Poverty is an issue unto itself. All you can do is extrapolate how this or that policy MAY |
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cbayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. It's not a speech. It is a written answer to a direct question. |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 07:20 PM Response to Reply #10 |
66. There IS Something To Think About Here Though... Endorsing Obama Over |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:07 AM Response to Reply #66 |
68. I just am sickened by Obama much more than Hillary.I may not agree with Hillary on some issues |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 10:53 AM Response to Reply #68 |
69. I Was Just Musing... I'm NOT Supporting Either One... I'm Just Wondering |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. the working class is solidly behind Clinton, not Obama. This makes no sense. |
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newmajority (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my life. |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. The lower the income, the more likely one is to support Clinton over Obama. |
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newmajority (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. What polls? The ones Markkk Penn pulled out of his ass? |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:02 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. No, the exit polls taken from voters leaving the voting booth |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 03:26 PM Response to Reply #18 |
47. EVERY FUCKING EXIT POLL |
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catgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
30. Huh? |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. David Corn can suck my left nut. |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
62. Gee, Taken From You asdjrocky... David Corn IS Another Sell Out!! |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 06:44 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. A new league record... |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 07:02 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. Glad You Liked It So Much!! HA! n/t |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. may he endorse no one. nt |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
13. Obamites swiftboated him as a phony and now they revive the smears to try to force him on this |
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catgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
33. Oh there you go again |
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R_M (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
34. True. |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:26 PM Response to Reply #13 |
39. They didn't swiftboat him, they pointed out the conversion was recent. Which it is. |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
15. When did Corn cross the street and go to work at MoJo? |
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vireo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
49. another thing I don't get |
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vireo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 03:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
50. dup |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
16. How'd I know, before I opened this, that he'd be labeled a phony |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:00 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. The Obama machine is in overdrive |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
19. Edwards doesn't HAVE to jump onto the Obama train. He can do what he wants. |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
20. Exactly. And they reminded us today on MSNBC that Edwards said he thinks the Repubs. WANT to run |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. And he also thinks Hillary will "pummel" the rethugs while Obama would lose |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:14 PM Response to Reply #31 |
36. Your infantile name-calling aside, |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
24. delete-dupe |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
27. Corn is a trust fund populist. |
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dicknbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
28. HOPE????HOPE??? ....We don't need HOPE we need... |
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R_M (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
32. David Corn? |
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2rth2pwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
37. Why endorse anybody? He just needs to stand there and look pretty. |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #37 |
54. go beat your dog. eom |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
38. and so the slaughter begins even before JE does a thing for shame on Corn |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
48. So he should endorse the choice of limo liberals instead of the candidate |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
52. Indubitably true: |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 04:28 PM Response to Reply #52 |
55. Hi, RUMMYisFROSTED |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:12 PM Response to Reply #55 |
59. You forgot the :hi: |
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Thrill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
57. He'll have a hard time proving that to people here in NC |
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TheDonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
58. Edwards probably won't endorse... |
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yeswecan08 (134 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
64. Edwards made himself irrelevant. He's a dwarf compared to Obama now |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:03 AM Response to Reply #64 |
67. And you are an intellectual midget. |
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marlakay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
70. I think to be true to himself he should sit it out |
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spooky3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
71. He has differences with and (more) similarities to BOTH candidates. |
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