Posted on 02/02/2006 1:27:05 PM PST by presidio9
He's quick to call George W. Bush ``the worst president'' of his lifetime and criticize Bush's lack of vision. But former U.S. senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards hesitates to put himself into the next race for president. If he does run, he'll keep a close eye on Ohio, still ``the consummate swing state,'' he said Thursday before a speech at Mount Union College. ``Had Ohio voted differently in 2004, I wouldn't be here right now -- or I'd be here with a different title,'' he said. ``... I think this is a state that will be critical for us in the 2008 presidential election.'' A lot has changed in the past year -- especially the number of poor Americans, he said. Edwards is the head of the Center of Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and he has embarked on a grass-roots campaign to promote a minimum-wage boost at a time when 37 million people are affected by poverty. A year ago, that figure was 1 million fewer, he said. ``Five dollars and fifteen cents an hour, I think, is a national embarrassment,'' he said. ``Since we can't (raise the wage) in Congress, we'll do it on the ground.'' A product of a middle-class North Carolina family, Edwards, 52, doesn't approve of hurricane-recovery efforts in New Orleans and other areas. Nor does he support the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito. ``With a president who believes that he has the kind of executive power he thinks he has -- which is wrong, by the way -- that marriage to a Supreme Court nominee who believes in broad, expansive power is extremely dangerous to our system of government,'' Edwards said. ``The most important thing is for the will of the American people to do something about (poverty). I think it's there. What's missing is leadership.'' So will he run in 2008? ``I haven't made any kind of decision,'' he said. ``I'm working on these poverty issues (and) making sure my wife (Elizabeth, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004) is completely well, which she seems to be.''
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I don't think I could stand another episode of this metrosexual getting his hair brushed for 30 minutes.
The Breck Girl returns...yawn.
What he meant to say was, "if not for those pesky duckhunters in Ohio, we'd have won".
Hey, Yawn, where's YOUR vision? If you think America's "biggest problem" is poverty, you are living in the 1930s.
My little pony...my little pony.....
Hey Breck Girl Johnny, do not you have an ambulance to chase?
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