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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 11:27 AM Original message |
Presidential candidate Edwards not hypocrite |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. I believe that there are legitimate reasons for not supporting Edwards in the primaries, |
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pocoloco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
2. So much for hypocrisy, |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 11:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. .. |
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
51. No - but I don't trust Edwards, either. |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 05:39 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. You know, I wish you'd post a thread about a Democratic candidate that you *DO* support. |
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corkhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 11:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. a politician |
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kansasblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
5. I get this from my Republican friends.... |
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checks-n-balances (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 01:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Comeback:"Supporters of the 'war' & their children should be there fighting" |
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WindRavenX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:03 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. ooo snap! |
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Scriptor Ignotus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. hypocrite isn't an accurate word for Edwards |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 01:30 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. .. |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Or a white man going on about how black people aren't given equal opportunity. |
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dogday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:18 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Edwards professes to know the plight of being poor |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. sorry, i don't understand what your saying |
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dogday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:35 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I was agreeing with you |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:35 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. oh, ok, i see |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
42. RFK |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
9. Co-sponsoring, verbally and editorially supporting, and voting |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 01:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Wow. Was Edwards president at the time? Did he pull out the inspectors & order the invasion? |
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Buck Rabbit (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. Well he did support the war in 2003 and 2004 and 2005 |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:45 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. I think the real question is what did he do to stop it......or did he play in |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:22 PM Response to Reply #24 |
46. the "REAL" question is, what is YOUR candidate doing to stop |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 03:14 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. As clear as you have made your support clear, I'm not quite sure why |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 03:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. It appears that you will be helping to paint him "as a weakling ". |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 03:54 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. You are so right Sapphire! There is still time if other candidates want to pick up the mantle... |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:16 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. A senatorial & gubernatorial candidate who did... |
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GreenArrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. "Republican candidates who say they value all life" |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. What gets me is when Edwards states that he'll "have to live with this |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 03:48 PM Response to Reply #27 |
36. Edwards is doing something to rectify the mistake he made, but he does not need your forgiveness... |
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GreenArrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 07:56 PM Response to Reply #27 |
53. I suspect the penance |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 07:59 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. Please feel free to comment here: |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
44. Just as many war protestors don't "have a problem" with poor people in the US |
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GreenArrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
13. not so much a hypocrite |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. He is not a poser. |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:51 PM Response to Reply #14 |
25. Well it is not "thin Air"...... |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 03:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
34. I agree Edwards is not a poser. Here is a paragraph and link that shows he acts .... |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Is that why he is committed to fight poverty as long as he is living & breathing, |
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GreenArrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:23 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. the Center for Poverty, Work, and Opportunity |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:26 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. All you can do is call people names. |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:52 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. "ain't done shit"? |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 02:57 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. That's not the same "center"....... |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 03:19 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. John Edwards was the director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 03:26 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I don't need to "Berate" DU members....... |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 03:35 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. A picture is worth a thousand words...the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity... |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 03:25 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. In the interest of providing some clarity for the uninformed.... |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 09:47 PM Response to Reply #13 |
59. If you had said |
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GreenArrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 10:09 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. same thing, ain't it? Or close enough... |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 10:23 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. Yep, close enough |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 11:14 PM Response to Reply #59 |
63. Please feel free to comment here: |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
37. Sorry, but the guy who takes pains to point out his "son of a millworker" cred for political gain... |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:03 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Hmmmm.... should the financially well off never be allowed to raise poverty as an issue? Kennedy?... |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:05 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. I wonder if this criticism has anything to do w/JRE being "Champion of the Working Class" |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:22 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. Did Kennedy go around acting like one of the common folk? |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:31 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. Well by all means listen to only 'poor people' who can do little about their predicament... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:34 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Noblesse Oblige is a retreading of the "white man's burden" |
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GreenArrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 08:19 PM Response to Reply #49 |
56. when the rich help the poor |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 09:14 PM Response to Reply #56 |
58. yes |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 11:27 PM Response to Reply #56 |
64. That is certainly true in some cases. Do you believe it is true in all cases? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
43. He Apologized. Some people have no idea how hard this is to do. |
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GreenArrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 08:51 PM Response to Reply #43 |
57. what exactly did he apologize for? |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
47. Obviously the author of this doesn't know that Edwards voted for the 2001 bankruptcy bill |
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AzDar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 04:34 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. I have a real problem with that,also. I would love to be able to ask WHY |
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Snotcicles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 08:14 PM Response to Reply #47 |
55. I know several people who filed bankruptcy just to get out of paying |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-06-07 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
60. Right here. K&R |
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