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EDWARDS AND POVERTY
MSNBC ^ | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | From NBC's Carly Zakin

Posted on 06/06/2007 7:35:42 PM PDT by granite

We got our hands on an upcoming New York Times magazine cover story examining Edwards and his poverty platform. Some highlights of the piece:

-- “What stands out the most about Edwards’s antipoverty ideas is their familiarity. It’s as if he has taken most of the proposals that have been talked about in policy groups and at university forums since the 1990s and thrown them all together into one comprehensive and expensive package. The individual proposals themselves, far from being radical or populist, basically sound — there’s no other way to put it — Clintonian”... “Exiling oneself from Washington and being subsequently reborn as a more candid and compassionate politician is an old and popular plotline in Democratic politics. Robert Kennedy built his legend on the same idea in the mid-1960s… Edwards clearly sees himself in this vein.”

(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2008; breckgirl; edwards; electionpresident; elections; mcmansion; pinksapphire; poverty; povertypimp; silkypony

1 posted on 06/06/2007 7:35:42 PM PDT by granite
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To: granite

Hil’s Marching Minions at work. She must not have done that well at the last debate.


2 posted on 06/06/2007 7:38:03 PM PDT by IslandJeff ("I used to care, but things have changed" - Robert Zimmerman)
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To: IslandJeff

This is amazing. A liberal paper such as the times is going with a story that is not flattering to Edwards at all.


3 posted on 06/06/2007 7:40:16 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
This is amazing. A liberal paper such as the Times is going with a story that is not flattering to Edwards at all.

Osama Obama,Biden and Hillary! all have ADA ratings for liberal voting that are higher than Edwards'...so of course he's not gonna be the Times' first choice...or second choice...or third choice.

4 posted on 06/06/2007 7:52:22 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: granite
Image hosted by Photobucket.com the BreckGirl knows a lot of poor people... they WORK FOR HIM!!!
5 posted on 06/06/2007 7:52:54 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Maybe they don’t like Edwards’ message. Democrat’s success after all, comes when they cloak their message in conservative rhetoric. Supporting proven failed policies of the past won’t get you elected. The Times obviously likes candidates who can fool the rubes yet one more time. Gack, maybe the Times is thinking this guy really belives this stuff. That would be an automatic disqualifier.


6 posted on 06/06/2007 7:57:44 PM PDT by kylaka
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Geez. What’s so amazing? They’re 100% shilling for Hillary.


7 posted on 06/06/2007 8:52:40 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: granite
Ah noh ahbout pahvaty..

Mah Daddy was a millworker...

8 posted on 06/06/2007 8:55:33 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

...ya kno’....two Americas an’ all that...


9 posted on 06/07/2007 5:42:05 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: Dilbert San Diego; Gay State Conservative; kylaka

Edward’s anti-poverty message is playing well with the religious left. Left or right, they don’t like the idea of religion playing a role in politics.


10 posted on 06/07/2007 6:40:22 AM PDT by Between the Lines (I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations.)
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To: granite

That poor, poor man! < /sarcasm >

11 posted on 06/07/2007 8:36:30 AM PDT by SuperSonic (Bush "lied", people dyed.......their fingers purple.)
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yep, him and his Two Americas horse______.

No question which America he belongs to.


12 posted on 06/07/2007 9:27:50 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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