Posted on 09/07/2005 11:17:07 AM PDT by Millee
John Edwards says the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina underscores the "two Americas" theme of his presidential campaign last year.
"We see the poor and working class of New Orleans who don't own a car and couldn't evacuate to hotels or families far from the target of Katrina," Edwards said in e-mail messages to supporters Friday "We see the suffering of families who lived from paycheck to paycheck and who followed the advice of officials and went to shelters at the Civic Center or the Superdome or stayed home to protect their possessions."
Edwards added, "We have been too slow to act in the face of the misery of our brothers and sisters. This is an ugly and horrifying wake-up call to America."
The subject of Katrina is likely to come up when Edwards today launches a lecture series at the UNC Law School's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.
Edwards is director of the center, and he recently named as deputy director Marion Crain, a law professor, and Laura Hogshead as assistant director.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee last year was in Chicago last week raising money for Democrats at the Knickerbocker Hotel, meeting with Englewood activists and U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush.
Edwards, who left office in January as North Carolina senator, will help Rep. Brad Miller raise money for his re-election kitty. Edwards, a former senator, is scheduled to appear at a Miller fund-raiser Oct. 10 at the home of Frank and Julia Daniels. Frank Daniels is the former publisher of The News & Observer. The cost of entry to the event ranges from $250 to $1,000.
Meanwhile, Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Edwards' former jogging buddy and closest friend in the Senate, has been wading into Edwards' political turf.
Bayh, who like Edwards is considering a presidential run, attended a South Carolina Democratic Party fund-raiser in Columbia last week. Edwards, a native of South Carolina, carried that state in the Democratic presidential primary last year.
Doesn't Edwards run some bogus Poverty Research Center now? Isn't that on a college campus?
Couldn't he arrange for dorms to be opened up to the unwashed masses belonging to one of the two Americas he sees?
edwards has been hanging out with teddy kennedy.
Yes..
double vision has never been a problem for a scum sucking bottom dweller...or a drunk.
I'm sorry...John *who*?
the next original idea that idiot has will be his first.
Working Class?
mah daddy once ran a mill in New Orleans..
Dear Silky Pony:
Thank you very much for your concern regarding the victims of the New Orleans Hurricane and Flood. I have a great suggestion on how to help. You have received millions of dollars from multiple lawsuits that you filed against the American Red Cross. Why not donate this money back to the Red Cross. Just a suggestion.
Your friend,
Karl Marx
He mentions the Civic Center as a place refygees were told to go. I still have not seen any proof that there were told to go there. And the Superdome did not have that many people in it untill after the storm. The people who did not evacuate kept coming and coming.
My Cousin Vinnie
People raping babies, looting, shooting at rescuers.
Oh yes, we saw that other America.
"I see stupid people everywhere.." Edwards is one of them!
Well, then we lost a whole bunch of Americas, because there were thousands of them beforehand.
WHAT ABOUT THOSE 300-400 BUSES...THAT JUST SAT IN THE NEW ORLEANS CITY YARDS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Two bad he didn't see or FEEL his wife TWO T*T's for four years.
He might have saved her from her cancer getting golfball size.
You just can't make this stuff up.
Methinks the Democrats are terribly stupid or terribly dishonest.
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