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Edwards bid shows poverty not big campaign theme

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 It shows that the 'guilt game' has only so much leg. It is particularly ineffective when the broad expanse of the population sees what constitutes real poverty [not the contrived statistical game] and fundamental casual factors which general go back to human free will. Its why the 'illegal' victimhood game doesn't play well in the general public which sees beyond the poster children and instead spies the daily news of murder, rape, robbery, assaults from the same community that overloads their kids schools and their community health offices.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-01-31 07:51|| 2008-01-31 07:51|| Front Page Top

#2 His whole campaign was based on a strategy of helping the poor.

Poor people don't tend to vote, Breck Boy...

Posted by Raj 2008-01-31 08:05|| 2008-01-31 08:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Compared to this guy, everybody out here in Second America is poor...

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-31 09:18|| 2008-01-31 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 But he dropped out of the race on Wednesday

Ummmnot exactly. Edwards hasnt ended his campaign he has suspended his campaign. First, this enables him to retain his whopping 26 delegates. Not really enough to make him a King-maker but chances are he can swap them plus his endorsements for a really cool appointment. Maybe something where he can rub elbows with Bono. More importantly, a suspended campaign allows him to continue to receive federally matching funds. Just so we are clearthats taxpayer money. Do you think, after everything is done, he will donate that dough to the poverty stricken underclass minority homeless folks with no healthcare?

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-01-31 11:35|| 2008-01-31 11:35|| Front Page Top

#5 The city, devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was a perfect example of the case that Washington fails to provide economic justice

Um, no. It just proves that banana-republic practices and a lazy and sympathetic media can buy you a historical fable.

Posted by Pappy 2008-01-31 12:02|| 2008-01-31 12:02|| Front Page Top

#6 I suggest that Mr Edwards visit Bangalore, India (the "Silicon Valley of India") to see true poverty. Bangalore is not even the poorest area of India or of the rest of the world, but you will see people living in shacks and tents - right next to rich homes. And there, if you are born poor, chances are very, very good that you will die poor, unlike America where it is possible (not easy, but possible) to work your way up through hard work.
By the way, I am not putting down India. The people I worked with there were great. However, the contrast with America was startling.
The poor people in America complain because they only have 100 channels on their cable TVs. Poor people in other countries wonder "what is this TV thing you speak of? We don't even have running water"

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2008-01-31 18:32|| 2008-01-31 18:32|| Front Page Top

#7 hypocrisy has a smell, and the stank was all over the ambulance-chasing rich boy

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-01-31 20:07|| 2008-01-31 20:07|| Front Page Top

#8 But, for now, off to Castle Breck to...brood.

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-31 21:04|| 2008-01-31 21:04|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL Tu!

Posted by WTF 2008-01-31 22:31|| 2008-01-31 22:31|| Front Page Top

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