Wow. It really seems more and more clear that if Hillary gets the nod, we can look for the "culture of corruption" to stop being just a Republican problem.

This belongs in the Believe it or Not annals of political history. Yes, this fits perfectly with Hillary's vision of Rural America. To her it is the corporations and not the people that are important. It is insulting and disgusting that this woman is leading any poll for the nomination.

wouldn't want to mess up the white carpet in the law office, don't you know.  

Tarheel's daily obsession with Mrs. Clinton continues...

LOL. Knock it off and calm down.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina - In response to reports that Senator Clinton is planning a "Rural Americans for Hillary" lunch and campaign briefing at the DC offices of Troutman Sanders Public Affairs, the lobbying firm for Monsanto, John Edwards for President communications director Chris Kofinis released the following statement:

"While John Edwards was in rural Iowa yesterday talking about his plans to help family farmers, the Clinton campaign was in Washington , DC planning an event with the lobbyists from the biggest corporate agriculture company in the world. The difference between John Edwards and Hillary Clinton could not be more clear. Here's some news for the Clinton campaign, when folks in rural Iowa talk about the problems with hog lots, they don't mean parking lots on K Street .

"John Edwards believes family-owned farms are critical to America 's future and that the corporate greed that's killing the family farm is hurting America . Apparently, Hillary Clinton doesn't feel the same way. While John Edwards has introduced policies to ensure family farmers can compete against big agribusiness, protect the food we eat and preserve farming communities, Hillary Clinton, beholden to Washington lobbyists, is tailoring her rural policy to reflect the needs of big agribusiness. While corporate America and lobbyists may want someone like Clinton in the White House, regular Americans are ready for someone who will stand up for them and fight for real change."

I'm only a hick from NC but I didn't know you rural Washingtonian's put hogs and chickens in your "rural" K street offices..

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Well, they're more like genetic mutations.

(Didn't the Clintons give Tyson Foods a pass on all sorts of pollution because they were big donors?)

hard to believe its even true, though it is. It would be pretty hard to make up something more ridiculous or that showed more hypocrasy.

There was a lavish party for Tom Harkin called "Agriculture Salutes Tom Harkin".  Lots of young good looking guys shucking piles and piles of oysters, steak,ribs etc.  Then a whole room devoted to tons and tons of Ben and Jerry's ice cream with toppings. It was sponsored by all the big Agri-businesses.
 There was a smaller but posh event at a Beacon Hill Townhouse with Champaigne, caviar and more seafood.  That was called "Oil and Gas Salute Max Baucus."

I wish somebody would address those lavish lobbyist parties at the Convention.  I work in Hollywood.  We  have over the top parties because we are in the entertainment industry not the democracy business.   We aren't supposed to be making the world a better place, but sometimes I think we are doing a better job with movies like Syriana, Rendition, Michael Clayton, Network, SICKO, Pan's Labyrinth, Kite Runner.....

for real.

Monsanto is a horrible company. They have way too much control on seed for farmers. They have been buying out all of the small seed companies in a lot of rural places. Just like Wal-Mart did with mom and pop stores. Pretty soon, they will have a monopoly and will be able to charge huge prices for their products. I can't believe Hillary is associated with them. Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad. This will not help her with rural votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or anywhere in America. Oh, and when did Monsanto become rural? I thought their headquarters was in St. Louis. Last time I check, St. Louis was a city.

Next thing you know on Halloween, Clinton will be coming out in a pair of blue jeans with a rope string or a pair of overalls just like Trump did in singing Green Acres last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCkmOCsI- hc

Yes, this is partly a snark, but this example of a brownbag lunch of rural Americans hosted by a major company who tries to take away family farms and still wants corporate welfare does not support the idea of a progressive agenda. It supports the status quo.  We have Republicans who do that now and we don't wish "to trade in a bunch of Corporate Republicans for a bunch of Corporate Democrats," as JRE concluded in a live online session at WaPo today.

LINK to WaPo

What I find funny is how much Edwards is losing and how Hillary has taken the lead in Iowa after all those trips he kept taking there from that "supposed" poverty charity.

you are too hard on monsanto. it takes skill to engineer rice and corn that will only grow one cycle so that poor farmers have to keep buying it.

Much of Iowa is rural. Even many of the city and suburbanites have rural roots. Feelings about preserving farms run deep.

Does not appear to have any redeemable qualities, it also appears you Edwards supporters have yet to take the Lobbyist issue to a level that would make it actually mean something.

What's missing?

I'll let you Edwards supporters fret for a little bit over what it might be.

While John Edwards was in rural Iowa yesterday talking about his plans to help family farmers, the Clinton campaign was in Washington, DC planning an event with the lobbyists from the biggest corporate agriculture company in the world. The difference between John Edwards and Hillary Clinton could not be more clear. Here's some news for the Clinton campaign, when folks in rural Iowa talk about the problems with hog lots, they don't mean parking lots on K Street.

Nuff said......

Silly, according to Boston globe

But a rival campaign said Edwards, too, has had ties to Monsanto, including investments in a private-equity firm that invested in the company.

In May, Fortress Investment Group, a publicly held private-equity fund for which Edwards worked part time last year, held 9,700 shares in Monsanto worth a relatively insignificant $533,000, US Securities and Exchange Commission documents show. The Fortress fund had shed those shares as of August, records show. The Wall Street Journal reported in August that Edwards had roughly $16 million invested in Fortress funds.

When Edwards ran for president in 2004, one of his top aides, Peter Scher, was a registered Monsanto lobbyist at the firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw.

Clinton spokesman Phil Singer accused Edwards of ignoring his links to Monsanto and attacking the senator out of desperation.

"In 2004, John Edwards said, `If you are looking for the candidate that will do the best job of attacking the other Democrats, I am not your guy,' " Singer said. "But he's become that guy now that his 2008 campaign has stalled."