just heard on Fox that J Ed's investments seem to be in some overseas fund...I don't know enough about it to comment, but doesn't that strike anyone as against the "keep jobs in America" spiel they give?
It sounds exactly like keeping jobs OUT of America. Fifty million invested in American companies would help to create jobs. How would Edwards be able to talk about the horrible economy if jobs were being created. I have never seen a campaign that so needs America to be failing in order for the campaign to succeed. The two Johns best hope of getting elected is that something will go wrong before the election.
And haven't we seen already how isolationism or protectionism has worked in the past. Or does Kerry choose to ignore things like our late entry into WW1, our late entry into WW2, Hawley-Smoot, and the real Great Depression.
If we had gotten into WW1 sooner would the Russian people have been so eager to embrace communism if they weren't starving while their country paid for the war effort? Would the Great Depression have been as bad as it was if we hadn't almost totally closed our borders to foreign trade? Would Hitler have taken over almost all of Europe if he knew we would immediately come to the aid of our allies?
Why should any politician be able to bring back failed isolationist policies by simply giving them a new name, protectionism?