Edwards wraps up early campaign blitz-asked about impeachment and if*should face same fate as saddam

[Kadie]

Edwards wraps up early campaign blitz
By JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press Writer
8 minutes ago


WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. - Presidential hopeful John Edwards, returning to the scene of his only primary victory in his 2004 bid, said Saturday that fellow Democrats should focus on running Congress rather than trying to impeach President Bush.

He also disagreed with an audience member who suggested, on the day Saddam Hussein was hanged in Iraq, that Bush should face the same fate.

But Edwards said he "unequivocally and without any question" rejected an escalation of the war. "There is no military solution to what is happening in Iraq," he said to cheers from a crowd of 1,800 at Brookland Baptist Church, one of the state's largest black churches.

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Edwards said the Republican-led impeachment of former President Clinton was driven by politics and damaged the nation. "I don't think the way to correct that mistake is by another mistake," Edwards said. "We don't have to get in the mud with pigs."

Another questioner, Davey van Greenen, asked Edwards whether Bush should be tried and face the same fate as Saddam. "He should be hanged in public himself," van Greenen said to considerable applause.

"I'll say to you very directly I don't agree with what you just said," Edwards responded, to similar applause.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_el_pr/edwards2008_40

[NightOwwl]

1. Davey van Greenen...

is my new hero.

[malaise]

2. Poor Edwards could not compete with Saddam and Ford this

weekend.

[Duer 157099]

3. What the hell?

Edwards said the Republican-led impeachment of former President Clinton was driven by politics and damaged the nation. "I don't think the way to correct that mistake is by another mistake," Edwards said. "We don't have to get in the mud with pigs."

If this means what it sounds like, I just lost all respect for him.

[MH1]

4. Sounds like

he thinks lying the nation into war is no more important than lying about sex.

:shrug:

I sure hope he clarifies his position on that.

Not that I expect him or any '08 candidate to come out saying "yeah! let's impeach the mofo!" but he could give a serious response about the significance of such a charge, but that if there is real provable reason to do it, then Congress should not shirk its duty just because impeachment has been misused before as a political witchhunt.

[greenman3610]

5. that's kind of an insult to pigs, I think

[KoKo]

6. This is worrysome.....n/t