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Edwards: Americans should sacrifice their SUVs
Associated Press ^ | 08/29/07

Posted on 08/29/2007 6:18:32 AM PDT by presidio9

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.

The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.

Edwards says Americans should be asked to drive more fuel efficient vehicles. He says he would ask them to give up SUVs.

Edwards got a standing ovation when he said weapons and equipment used by America's military needs to be made in the United States. He says tanks and ammunition for M16 rifles are being made in other countries.

He says jobs that provide equipment for America's defense need to be made in the United States.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; doasisaynotwhatido; environment; fraud; hypocrite; johnedwards; phony; silkypony; suv; twoamericas
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1 posted on 08/29/2007 6:18:36 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9

To Silky Pony:

“You First.”


2 posted on 08/29/2007 6:20:27 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: presidio9

Edwards should get a crew cut.


3 posted on 08/29/2007 6:21:00 AM PDT by Tarpon
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My wife can drive my daughters entire team to a meet in one car in a safe, GMC SUV.

Now, would it be better to have eight other little cars on the road?


4 posted on 08/29/2007 6:21:00 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: presidio9

Well, that clinches it. My next vehicle will be an SUV.

Thanks, Johnny! :)


5 posted on 08/29/2007 6:21:46 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: rlmorel
Not based on sales figures. he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.
6 posted on 08/29/2007 6:21:48 AM PDT by DManA
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To: edcoil

2 safe cars.


7 posted on 08/29/2007 6:22:12 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (concerning His promise.....not willing that any (of whom?) should perish but that all...)
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To: presidio9

LMAF


8 posted on 08/29/2007 6:22:25 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: presidio9

Edwards says Americans should be asked [at the point of a gun] to drive more fuel efficient vehicles.


9 posted on 08/29/2007 6:22:35 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DungeonMaster

Okay, I say he uses his Pirate money to buy them back.


10 posted on 08/29/2007 6:22:51 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: presidio9

Americans should sacrifice their 28,000 square foot houses.


11 posted on 08/29/2007 6:23:15 AM PDT by Fresh Wind
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Gee, Johnny, why don’t you get rid of the 28,000 square foot McMansion you built?

Ever hear of leading by example, you lightweight hypocrite?


12 posted on 08/29/2007 6:23:27 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: presidio9

Notice mr edwards made no mention of sacrificing other resources, just those targeted for the little people. He fully intends to maintain his resource-extravagant lifestyle while others should make the sacrifice. Does this idiot think it takes no energy to build and maintain a mansion? Only the stupid will follow the limo-liberals and mark my words: Hillary will be the next president because of the largely stuck-on-stupid voting segment of the population.


13 posted on 08/29/2007 6:23:34 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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That stupid ass should have fax’d that speech to Al Ghoul first, he’s the guy who burns up enough fuel in his assorted SUVs and the like, and has a ‘carbon footprint’ like Godzilla.

Up yours, Silky Pony!


14 posted on 08/29/2007 6:23:54 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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What am I supposed to drive in high water?

Put waders on that honda hybrid?

Edwards needs to move into an apartment and turn his 28,000 sq ft hotel into a hospice for terminal progressive ideology.


15 posted on 08/29/2007 6:24:43 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: DManA

Leftists, invariably, take the position that their “good ideas” must be implemented at the point of a gun.

They justify it by saying that “we all vote on it”, and turn a blind eye to the fact that any law or regulation inherently has a gun behind it.


16 posted on 08/29/2007 6:25:53 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Neoliberalnot
This is really the driving motivation behind these elitist "environmentalists" -

"YOU LITTLE PEOPLE NEED TO STOP USING OUR RESOURCES."

17 posted on 08/29/2007 6:26:59 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: presidio9

Why not set an example, JohnBoy?

18 posted on 08/29/2007 6:28:05 AM PDT by period end of story (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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19 posted on 08/29/2007 6:30:38 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: presidio9


20 posted on 08/29/2007 6:31:13 AM PDT by drpix
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