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Yesterday morning at a forum for undecided voters in Independence, Iowa—and there must be plenty of undecideds, the way the polls swing back and forth—Ex-Senator John Edwards repeated his criticism of Barack Obama, saying that any candidate who thinks he or she can invite corporate America to the table and achieve real results for Americans "is living in never-never land."
In a wide-ranging interview with ABC News Friday afternoon, the former North Carolina senator labeled as "ridiculous" the comments made by the Obama campaign linking Ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination to Sen. Hillary Clinton's vote to authorize the use of force against Iraq. On the other hand, he did embrace Sen. Barack Obama's politics over Clinton's, and said that an anti-Obama flier from a pro-Clinton union was "misleading" and "deceptive."
I like Obama, but I like him best for Vice-President paired with (in descending order) Joe Biden, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, or Bill Richardson. On the other hand, he's not a bad senator, missing plenty of votes this election season notwithstanding...
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I share your preference for a Biden/Obama ticket but it's unlikely that we will see it. As for other pairings, I don't see compelling arguments for Obama at the bottom of the ticket. Interesting that JE says BO's living in never never land for agreeing to negotiate with drug and insurance companies when earlier this year he said "I think you try to bring everybody to the table. You want their participation."
ReplyDeleteOh, and the world class genius continues to skirt questions on her voting record that even as late as this fall tilted neo con but you're right Obama has missed about 50 more votes than she did during this congress or about as many as Dodd and Biden.
Well, Dodd and Biden aren't exactly in their freshman terms either.
ReplyDeleteWhile I'd characterize Hillary's positions as more Blue Dog than Neocon, I'll also concede that she has taken positions more geared toward her electability than to what she really believes in her heart.
But I am not sure that is a bad thing, and unlike most Democrats I don't believe we have this election in the bag. "It's never too late to get it back."
Of course you're right, but with the exception of Joe, and Dodd to a far lesser degree, I don't think any of the other candidates, in talent, style and resume, are superior to Obama. What I find appealing to his campaign because I believe him, is his call for transparency into the big issue negotiations and spending. And I do think there is something to his claim that he can attract general election voters to the party that are not more likely to be there if Hillary or Edwards are at the top of the ticket. That means that he is appealing to voters rather than settling for the accepted electoral map. It seems reasonable to project that he could actually bag some states in the south that have shone steadily red since Bill Clinton. I don't think that's true for Hillary and John Edwards' showing in 2004 isn't encouraging.
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