Edwards Questions If Clinton Will Actually "Turn Up The Heat"

Well, you may have heard the Senator Clinton's new slogan is "Turn up the Heat."

Well, John Edwards questioned today whether she really can "turn up the heat."

"The war in Iraq isn't even history yet, but the Bush Administration is repeating the march to war with Iran - and they're getting help from a person who should know a lot better -Senator Clinton.

"On Saturday at the Iowa Jefferson Jackson dinner, Senator Clinton unveiled her new campaign slogan to 'turn up the heat' on the Republicans.

"Well, somebody will have to tell me how you 'turn up the heat' by voting with Bush, Cheney and the neocons on their path to war with Iran. Because I don't believe that's turning up the heat - I think that's giving them exactly what they want.

"Senator Clinton had her chance to stand up and she chose not to use it. Our nation needs leaders who have the strength and backbone to fight the president on his march to war with Iran - not quicken the pace."

http://johnedwards.com/news/headlines/20 071112-turn-up-the-heat/

This is turning up the heat!

"We all talk a great deal about hope and our responsibility to restore hope," he said. "Hope Is crucial. but you have to fight to restore that hope."

Edwards recalled his famous case on behalf of a young girl who was hurt by a swimming pool drain. Edwards said he'd given her family hope, and then "I gave that company Hell."

"We need to give America hope but we need to give these people who are driving you out of business Hell," he said.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1 107/Edwards_Giving_hopegiving_hell.html


Hillary Clinton's campaign was acting like President Bush's when it recently planted a softball question from an Iowa audience member, rival Democratic candidate John Edwards said Sunday.

"People expect you to stand in front of them and answer their hard questions - and they expect it to be an honest process," he told reporters in Des Moines. "What George Bush does is plant questions and exclude people from events, and I don't think that's what Democrats want to see in Iowa."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/200 7/11/clinton.html


We need to give America hope. But we need to give these people who are driving you out of business hell," Edwards said as he railed against corporate agriculture and the influence of special interests in Washington. He said voters should not "replace a crowd of corporate Republicans in Washington with a crowd of Washington Democrats."

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/pol itics/blog/2007/11/edwards_hits_clinton_ dodd_says.html

You don't turn up the heat by voting with Bush, Senator Clinton.

The recent debate. John Edwards turns up the heat on Senator Doubletalk:

Tags: Hillary Clinton, John Edwards (all tags)

Comments

123 Comments

Kyl-Lieberman

did not turn up the heat.

Edwards is giving us hope and them hell!

by TomP 2007-11-12 11:44AM | 0 recs
Re: Kyl-Lieberman

Exactly. Voting with Bush and the neocons certainly isn't standing up to them.

When does she plan on turning up the heat? At the end of her possible second term?

by NCDemAmy 2007-11-12 11:49AM | 0 recs
Re: Kyl-Lieberman

You'll notice that the Clinton supporters came in attacking, calling Edwards a terorrist, a dog, attacking trial lawyers.

They seem incapable of debate.

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:35PM | 0 recs
Johnnie said:

He said voters should not "replace a crowd of corporate Republicans in Washington with a crowd of Washington Democrats."

Forgive me, but me thinks tthatt would be a good  change...

the Clinton years look mighty nice in retrospect to most Dens...I think the polling says ninety percent plus of them agree...

good job with messaging Trippi...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 11:52AM | 0 recs
Yes, you like

them Corporate Dems, don't you?

By the way, sick of your "Johnnie" crap.  You demean youself and Senator Clinton with such cheap bs.

I still think you are a teenager.  if you really are an adult, damn, grow up.  

Too bad about the planting story.  Must be her agriculture plan.

by TomP 2007-11-12 11:57AM | 0 recs
i myself am paid by a dc based union

so id be just fine with it...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 12:22PM | 0 recs
You really are an adult?

And work for a union.

Damn.

Why do you act as you do here?  Why the attacks on trial lawyers?  Are you just not good at persuasion?

You really have spewed garbage at times here.  Do you speak like that at home?  With your family, with children?

I'm glad you are on Clinton's side.

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:41PM | 0 recs
Are you just not good at persuasion?

pardon me as I fall on the floor laughing and rolling in glee...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 03:31PM | 0 recs
let me try that again...


You wrote: " Are you just not good at persuasion?"

My intended response:  "Like You?"

followed by:

"pardon me as I fall on the floor laughing and rolling in glee.."

my apologies for any confusion...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 03:35PM | 0 recs
Re: Yes, you like

Stop with the personal attacks on other posters Tom.  People have called Clinton much worse.  Calling Edwards Johnnie is hardly reason for you to get all upset.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:27PM | 0 recs
Re: Johnnie said:

Edwards is not a DC democrat? UmmmYeahsureright! lol

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:00PM | 0 recs
and he wants 40% of the Court awarded

payment for doing so...

thats the gross, not the nett by the way...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 11:55AM | 0 recs
Pushing right wing

atttacks on lawyers who work for people.

So you don't like lawyers who fight for working people.

Figures.

You belong with Clinton.

by TomP 2007-11-12 11:58AM | 0 recs
weird

you don't think people should criticize Edwards but you have no problem with personal attacks on other people here.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:05PM | 0 recs
Re: weird

No.  Not wierd.  Holden is a troll.  Everyone knows that.

Guess what.  Democrats don't buy into right wing frames about those lawyers who stand up for people.

Maybe you did not know that.  

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:07PM | 0 recs
Re: weird

Holden is a poster just like yourself.  I think he brings a lot to the table,  although some of his words could be chosen wiser (or less acrymoniously.)  However, I really don't see the difference to many Edwards supporters on here.  Apparently you do, but I think molly has a very good point here.  

by georgep 2007-11-12 12:11PM | 0 recs
I am not surpised

you defend him.  You also stood with areyouready.

Shall we go back and read the garbage in HC your allies have spewed?    

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:22PM | 0 recs
Re: I am not surpised

The only one who is "spewing" is you, Tom.   Cut the spewing out and discuss things like a grown-up.  This constant "typical for all Hillary supporters" stuff makes you extremely weak.  Are you freaking out or burning out, or something?    ZERO-RATING for the comment dpandrews left was totally ridiculous.  You are violating the ratings system constantly, which, in the strict sense of the rules here make your behavior trollish.  I don't think of you as a troll, really, but if you can't cut out your zero-rating problem, that may change, and soon.   Geez, man.  

Grow a thicker skin, or don't dish out worse than what you are constantly complaining about.  You can't have it both ways.  

by georgep 2007-11-12 12:28PM | 0 recs
You are so silly.

areyouready made this place a dump.  You particpated in it.

Don't get all rule book on me.  

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:31PM | 0 recs
Re: You are so silly.

I have seen many Edwards supporters make a dump of this place, and they always have your blessing.  But, here is the problem.  You are bashing me because I happen to be a Clinton supporter (how ridiculous is that?) while you yourself engage in some of the worst rule breaks on this board.  Keep it above board.  This rabid stuff is for the birds.  It makes it seem like you don't really believe in your candidate, and the only salvation you see is trying to tear down the other candidate.  That that usually never works out in Democratic nomination battles has not entered your mind and makes you partially uneasy?  I guess not.  

by georgep 2007-11-12 04:38PM | 0 recs
acrimoniously?

perfectt word choice...

after 10 years of fighting the big media and how they hurt only Dems - to watch both Obama and Edwards join with Russet aand Bri-Bri during that debate....did make me angry and quite bitter at their false act...selfishness...and pure stupidity.

And Im bitter about them accusing both Hillary and Hillaary of being liars and corrupt....yeah...an acrimonious response is a fitting reply to tthat kind of low infamy.

I never once attacked either of these guys ever anywhere before that - i felt everybody has the right to run...but now that its clear that they and SOME of their supporters are willing to risk our long term chances for their short term gain....

gloves are off.

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 03:00PM | 0 recs
Re: weird

it isn't a right wing frame and holden isn't a troll.  You and your friends can troll rate away, but it is not going to get Edwards the nomination tom.  He's dead in the water, give it up.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:32PM | 0 recs
Re: weird

You must be new here.  Guess who said this:

any scum sucking vermin piece of garbage that goes to right wing hate sites run by our darkest enemies should be Id'd, grabbed by their weasel neck and the hung from he nearest liberty tree as traitors

(Hint: not a RedStater.)

by Junior Bug 2007-11-12 11:28PM | 0 recs
Re: weird

Well, the spelling is a dead give-away but that is the unmistakable and irreverent prose of our Holden.  He's rarely at a loss for words, your must admit.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-13 12:41AM | 0 recs
oh im a troll..oh no!.

and wtf does that mean?

that I disagree and have GREAT CONTEMPT for your false and slanderous attacks on Hillary..saying shes a corrupt and lying corporate sell out.

F that!

If that makes me a troll, plant me under a comfy bridge pal!

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 12:32PM | 0 recs
Re: oh im a troll..oh no!.

you are a troll of enough Edwards supporters troll rate you.  That seems to be the reality for some people here.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:46PM | 0 recs
Re: oh im a troll..oh no!.

It means you live under a bridge and eat billy-goats.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 02:35PM | 0 recs
Ba-Ba-Ba Barrrry...!

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 02:42PM | 0 recs
Re: weird

He may be a lot of things but he's not a troll.  He's just extremely partisan.  

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 02:34PM | 0 recs
Hell ya -

if you folks can some how teach even these two piglets to fly -

Id vote for them!

Cant break my 100% dem voting record!

Hell, I even voted for dukaakis - that midget -after what he did to Biden...and Id have punched him for it if he got near me that year.

but may i remind everyone - squeelers cant sprout wings!

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 02:47PM | 0 recs
Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water, Oh Yeah

Oh, I'll be thinking of you when I sip on that first, nice, cold can of Coors, you can be sure.

Incidentally, if we ever do chance to meet I'd like to introduce you to an another old friend of mine, Bacardi 151, in the flame-retardant bottle.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 04:29PM | 0 recs
if im wrong , ill send it to ya

fed ex overnight mail and then Ill take a bottle of 151 and pour it over my head and lite myself afire...

just for the cleansing effect...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 04:53PM | 0 recs
Re: if im wrong , ill send it to ya

And all with just the one good hand, too.  Seems a waste of good spirits, frankly.  We'll see.  To your health...

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 05:03PM | 0 recs
witthout a Clinton in the White House

we're doomed anyway...

But youre "On The Beach" already, arent ya...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 05:06PM | 0 recs
Re: witthout a Clinton in the White House

Man, you're good.  That's exactly right.  Why leave anything to chance?

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 05:10PM | 0 recs
itd be sad if it was

just me... a "boy and his dog"

but if Ava Gardner was along, maybe the idea of electing Obarry with all his collegiate misunderstanding of 'international relations"...maybe that wouldnt be so bad...

at least one could go out with a 'bang' and a BANG!

fuck whimpering...

---

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 05:34PM | 0 recs
Re: itd be sad if it was

Very funny.  It was a plan for the 80's.  Would you have gone back to Reagan's America if you didn't have to?  So now I'm stuck here.  Then after the invasion of Iraq it all made sense again.  Except I have to listen to the endless, patient approbation of English speaking people everywhere on the subject.  I think some of these tourists learned English just to upbraid some poor, unsuspecting Yank on the evils of the Bush administration, and they don't know the half of it.  Sigh.  If Obama wins I can come home at last.  See, I have a lot invested in this.  And you totally underestimate Obama on foreign policy, my friend.

And the last Eva Gardner pretty well cleaned me out when she breezed through, but it was heaps of fun while it lasted.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 07:25PM | 0 recs
if these clowns cause Rudy to gett elected

I may sail down and join ya---

"we'lll build an all american amusement park there"

I Like surfin' too...!

by holden caulfield 2007-11-13 02:16PM | 0 recs
Re: if these clowns cause Rudy to gett elected

And Randy Newman...  Very popular in Byron Bay.  I had a 24' Bermuda sloop in Singapore for a couple years.  It could do 16kns which was a bloody good thing 'cuz some nasty storms could blow up suddenly off the Malaysian coast.  I've run before a couple with a racing genoa set, ready to reef everything in at a moment's notice.  It was always my dream to sail the world wide and free but after awhile I gotta' admit I got sick of the smell and the pervasive saltiness.  I'm a good hand on deck but a landlubber at heart.  It was heaps of fun, though.  Live free or die.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-13 02:26PM | 0 recs
16 wow - with a bowsprit and all

im an otter - I cannot be off the water for very long at all..Im no sail round thee world, but i sail all round the bay and has 3000 miles of coast and the ocean...which i just came back from...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-13 08:54PM | 0 recs
Live free or die

by holden caulfield 2007-11-13 09:00PM | 0 recs
Sou-Sou-West from the Canal...correct?

by holden caulfield 2007-11-13 02:18PM | 0 recs
Re: Sou-Sou-West from the Canal...correct?

I'm SSW from about everything.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-13 02:33PM | 0 recs
Om what sense is that a personal attack?

Its an attack on the corporate-funded messaging attacking trial attorneys, because under the current legislature and Residential regime, trial attorneys are sometimes the only impediment they face to getting everything their own way.

by BruceMcF 2007-11-12 12:25PM | 0 recs
Re: Om what sense is that a personal attack?

it is the intent, don't waste my time again with silly word games.  I won't bother responding twice.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:33PM | 0 recs
If reasoned discussion is silly word games ...

... and what matters is guessing at the intent, then, I agree, you are wasting you time in the blogosphere.

by BruceMcF 2007-11-12 02:17PM | 0 recs
again...

at 40%

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 12:33PM | 0 recs
Yes, I understand, corporations would ...

... prefer that only people with money can bring a case ... that allows corporations to screw over people without money.

I don't understand why you wish to help corporations screw over people without money, and unlike some people, I'm not that good at mind reading over the internet, so I'm not going to try to guess.

by BruceMcF 2007-11-12 02:20PM | 0 recs
I dont like rich corporate fat cats either...

unlike you guys, Im consistent.

Labor and working people are my brethren, i dont support many others who may be voting with us, but that doesnt mean we cant live under the same BIG TENT.

The Dem Party is a co-olition, not your friggin' tree house.

We dont push people out, we invite them in.

Even trial lawyers taking 40% of jury awards from grieving families...

and hedge fund employees working part time making $100,000 a month.

See how big our Tent is?

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 03:46PM | 0 recs
So you are doing the bidding of corporate ...

... fat cats in pushing their attacks against trial lawyers even though there is no love lost?

Well, I guess that is selfless of you, in a sense.

by BruceMcF 2007-11-12 06:05PM | 0 recs
yeah thats exactly whatt Im doing...

your obvious sincerity has made me come clean....GUILTY!

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 06:17PM | 0 recs
yeah thats exactly whatt Im doing...

your obvious sincerity has made me come clean....GUILTY!

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 06:18PM | 0 recs
Re: Pushing right wing

Anyone who thinks it's okay to attack trial lawyers for being trial lawyers ought to read George Lakoff's book "Don't Think of an Elephant." He has a very interesting point in there about how the right wing attacks trial lawyers, not just to seed distrust of the justice system and make voters willing to give up their own rights to sue corporations that injure them, but also to defund the Democratic Party, since trial lawyers are one of the only groups of individuals with a lot of money that regularly supports Democrats.

by sirius 2007-11-12 12:20PM | 0 recs
lettt em say in the party

i know some of them....

just i dont want one in the WH.

Thats my right - isnt it?

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 12:35PM | 0 recs
How biased.

You really belong in a different party, I think.

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:36PM | 0 recs
Re: How biased.

They wouldn't have him.  He's a totally unreconstructed lefty with strong views on party solidarity, that's all.  He just backed the wrong horse in this race.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 02:38PM | 0 recs
let me suggest that

the present Party chairman wouldnt agree with ya...

He thinks Im funny!

And when Hillary chooses the next one, he'll probably be an old chum.

Its our generations turn.

So sorry to disappoint...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 03:49PM | 0 recs
Re: lettt em say in the party

Clarence Darrow?

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 02:39PM | 0 recs
if you dare compare the two...Ill

climb thru the ether and club ya...

yes, he made big dough, butt he did more than that....

remember the trial of the LA Times bombing?

wiki:

The national labor movement was outraged by the way the McNamaras had been treated, and labor leaders were convinced the brothers were innocent. Burns had clearly engaged in kidnapping, misrepresentation of his status as a law enforcement officer, unlawful imprisonment, and possibly torture in his handling of McManigal and J.B. McNamara. He had unlawfully extradited J.B. McNamara, and may have committed kidnapping by transporting him across state lines. The local circuit judge had unlawfully denied J.J. McNamara access to legal representation and had no authority to approve his extradition. Both McNamaras had been arrested on the basis of a confession wrung from a third man who himself had been kidnapped and perhaps coerced into confessing. The case seemed too much like the kidnapping and trial of Bill Haywood and others in 1906.[3]

Labor leaders were also convinced of the McNamara's innocence by other factors as well. The open shop movement and virulent hostility shown by Otis convinced many that the whole event was a frame-up (with some, including Eugene V. Debs, suggesting that Otis himself may have planted the bomb). Burns repeatedly implied that Gompers and other labor leaders were involved in the national bombing campaign, and AFL officials feared a national campaign of arrests designed to destroy the nascent labor movement might be in the works. Meanwhile, George Alexander, mayor of Los Angeles, was locked in a very close re-election battle against Job Harriman, a Socialist Party of America candidate. The bombing, some felt, might simply be a plot to keep Harriman out of City Hall.[3]

Iron Workers president Frank Ryan asked Clarence Darrow to defend the McNamaras. But Darrow was in ill health. Ryan turned to Harriman, who agreed to be the brothers' defense attorney. Gompers, however, visited Darrow in Chicago and convinced him that the case required his expertise. Reluctantly, Darrow consented to be lead defense attorney

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 03:55PM | 0 recs
Re: if you dare compare the two...Ill

One of my adolescent heroes, I must admit.  My Dad had a copy of Clarence Darrow for the Defense which I read in high school.  Dramatic times and inspiring stuff.  No, I wasn't comparing him to Edwards, to be sure, so you can put your cudgel away.  Just noting how important advocacy and the ACLU has been and will forever be to the movement.  

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 04:05PM | 0 recs
Re: Pushing right wing
my family is full of lawyers.  Not all lawyers are created equal.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion and even some democrats are not crazy about what they think of as ambulance chasers.  
In fact, they aren't all fucking humanitarians just looking to help the little guy fight the big bad corporations.  Lots of them screw perfectly good doctors too.  Let's not pretend it's all a matter of good and evil.
by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:37PM | 0 recs
Re: Pushing right wing smears

Ambulance chasers.

I cannot belive you Clinton supportes.  You do know your candidate got more donations from trial lawyers than John Edwards.

Senator Clinton does not disrespect trial lawyers.  Why do you?

by TomP 2007-11-12 01:13PM | 0 recs
im sure she takes money from hedge fund parasites

too..

I dont like them either.

Its a BIG TENT.

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 04:05PM | 0 recs
onne of my favorite people on the planet

is the head lawyer for the N.A.R.F.

The Native Americans Right Fund. www.narf.org

And may I point out to these people that both Clintons attended yale law school.  Hell, I even went to U of T law school until I realized that witthin a couple of months that i really wasnt going to ANY classes...

please contribute to NARF if you have any wooden nickles lying round...

Tey dont chase the 40%

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 04:03PM | 0 recs
am i wrong?

did he do this work pro bono?

no, im not crazy about money chasing PI lawyers who take so much cash...

thats my personal opinion and im sicking to it.

personally, i despise greed.

and about that hedge fund thingee...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 12:26PM | 0 recs
Re: am i wrong?

Are you talking about Chelsea working at a hedge fund or that Clinton got more donations from hedge fund employees than Edwards?

The last I knew was the hedge funds are legitimate businesses but Edwards feels the managers should NOT be getting a tax break in the rates they pay.

by pioneer111 2007-11-12 12:33PM | 0 recs
what is Chelsea running for?

here - I pledge never - ever to vote for her if she runs for president, cause she chose to work at a hedge fund..

that is a blood oath..ok?

we clear?

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 12:37PM | 0 recs
Re: what is Chelsea running for?

I'm with you on the hedge funds, we are headed into perilous and uncharted waters at cruising speed.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 04:08PM | 0 recs
What would you do

What would you do if your child got disembowed from a faulty pool drain? Imagine if the faulty pool drain left your child with eating from a feeding tube for the rest of its life. The company knew about the faulty pool drain for ten years and knew that several children were seriously injured. Futhermore, all it took was a screw that cost one dollar to fix the faulty pool drain but the company refused to fix it. Are you serioulsy telling me that it is wrong for the parents of the injured children to sue? Are you serioulsy telling me that you would support the company over the trial attorney? And wasn't the company being greedy for trying to save a dollar for a screw despite knowing children were being injured?

by harmony94 2007-11-12 01:08PM | 0 recs
Id sue

but that doesnt change that I feel that 40% is nuts and greedy...

or that I dont personally like or want PI lawyers in the WH.

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 01:18PM | 0 recs
swell

i said that I

dont like money chasing PI lawyers who take 40%...I wasnt speaking for Senator Clinton..

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 01:02PM | 0 recs
Notice how the Clinton squad

quickly got here to spew.

They disrupt and leave nasty, nasty comemnts.

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:29PM | 0 recs
and you call a woman i respect

a lying, corrupted sellout...

screw that!

dont let the door.....

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 12:39PM | 0 recs
Re: Notice how the Clinton squad

damn it sucks when you can't have complete control of the board doesn't it? All those mean mean Clinton supporters making remarks to all the saintly and kind Edwards supporters.  However do you all survive?

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:41PM | 0 recs
oh...tthe good ol' days...

when they could slime and slander in peace and harmony...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 01:04PM | 0 recs
Hope for what?

At this point you could help your candidate by being more objective.  What can he do differently to gain on Obama in second in Iowa?  Or Clinton nationally?

What can Edwards do to break out gain traction.   Clearly he isn't now.

All you can hope for now, if he doesn't find a new way, is a third place finish in Iowa.

by dpANDREWS 2007-11-12 04:54PM | 0 recs
Edwards is turning into a little yapper dog

... All bark and no bite.

He is essentially picking up on the line of attack that Obama pushed to no avail all summer.  Clinton vote for the war, voted to give Bush blah blah blah.

Granted Edwards is pushing it harder -  the bark, but I am not sure what it will get him.  Obama went no where with it.  Recent polling shows Edwards going no where - no bite.  So my gut tells me Edwards will gain little with this line of attack.

One of the problems is that he is hitting her on her strength.   Democrats when polled view her as the strongest and best to deal with matters of security.   Perhaps Edwards would be more effective he hit her on economic themes that dove tailed with his populist speil.  

Who knows.  I think Edwards can yap all he wants.  I don't think voters are really listening anymore.  I think it is going to come down to Clinton and Obama in the last two weeks in Iowa, and who has the best ground game in Iowa.

by dpANDREWS 2007-11-12 11:52AM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards is turning into a little yapper dog

yup, Edwards is out of it.  I do think Trippi was trying to hurt Obama the other night though by getting obama supporters to chant about kicking Clinton's ass.  I think's it's more of Trippi's dirty tricks, so I think Obama needs to watch his back.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:07PM | 0 recs
Not one Clinton supporter

tried to defend her vote with the neo-cons here.

Just garbage spewed.  Typical on MyDD from Clinton supporters.

Keep spewing.  

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:11PM | 0 recs
Re: Not one Clinton supporter

Tom, the way YOU use the zero-rates on here - "you insult my candidate so you get a zero rate"   should make this comment


Just garbage spewed.  Typical on MyDD from Clinton supporters.

Keep spewing.  

worthy of 3 zero-rates in a row.  Are you sure you want to continue this track of being extremely thin-skinned about anything said about Edwards while dishing out the insults at individual posters and an entire group of posters?  Seems very counter productive to fruitful exchange on this site.  I really don't think it makes you look particularly good, quite honestly.

by georgep 2007-11-12 12:19PM | 0 recs
Not about Edwards, George.

I troll rate trolls for trollish comments.

Good try, though, at diatraction.

So, Clinton's turning on the heat by voting with Bush.  

Maybe you'd like to make a comment about Elizabeth's cancer.  areyouready and his scokpuppets, as well as dpandrews, have done that.

People see how Clinton supporters turned MyDD into a cesspool.    

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:25PM | 0 recs
Re: Not about Edwards, George.

"Maybe you'd like to make a comment about Elizabeth's cancer."

I have never talked about "Elizabeth's cancer", and never will.  Please keep your comments above board.  As it was your comment deserved a zero-rate for the inflammatory nature of the comment, the desire to engage in ad-hominem attack against a fellow poster.   Let's not go into these ridiculous attack, ok?  That is ten times worse than anything that could possibly be said about your candidate.  

POSTERS aren't fair game, even if you want to make it so, but CANDIDATES ARE, even if you want to prevent that from happening.    

by georgep 2007-11-12 12:35PM | 0 recs
Re: Not about Edwards, George.

George, plenty of Clinton's supporters on MyDD have made sickening attacks on Edwards, including using Elizabeth's cancer. Tom's not out of line here.

by clarkent 2007-11-12 12:58PM | 0 recs
Re: Not about Edwards, George.

Plenty of Clinton supporters?  Please name five and I will concede that you are correct.  The fact is, the large majority of Clinton supporters condemned those comments about EE, including George and myself.  But nevertheless, we see constant comments about Hillary Clinton that the Edwards folks think are just great.  How many recommends did that repulsive Hillary Hitler diary get from Edwards folks?  How many of Derek Larsson's truly nasty photoshop pictures get mojo from Edwards folks?

Everything said about Clinton is fine, including "let's kick her ass", but one word of disagreement about Edwards and these folks descend on you like locusts.

The level of hypocrisy here is unbelievable.  Everything is the fault of Clinton and/or Clinton supporters, including attacks on Edwards from from Obama supporters (or vice versa), according to a diary today. I didn't realize we had so much control over the universe. I should be getting paid more.

George is right - Tom is busily TR'ing comments he doesn't like - not because they violate the rules, but because they're critical of Edwards.  Meanwhile, he's allowed to say anything he pleases about Hillary Clinton and get mojo for it.

by Denny Crane 2007-11-12 01:29PM | 0 recs
Re: Not about Edwards, George.

As far as hypocrisies are concerned, there is none bigger than the one you describe.  Ratings abuse galore when their candidate is not treated with adulation, but they themselves use slams that are worse on the hated candidate, and if someone complains about that double-standard, they troll-rate THAT too in addition to attacking the poster in the worst way.   This attempt at bullying needs to stop.  

 Either some Edwards supporters grow a thicker skin when it comes to their candidate, or they stop slamming, slandering and sliming Clinton.  Can't have it both ways.    That is not even counting the gratuitous POSTER ATTACKS and gratuitous RATINGS ABUSE, which has been beyond the pale for quite some time now.  

by georgep 2007-11-12 03:12PM | 0 recs
Re: Not about Edwards, George.

He is absolutely out of line, because he was attacking me, a poster who has never stated anything about "Elizabeth's cancer" with the cancer line.   Thanks for 2-rating that cheap attack, though.  I guess Edwards supporters stick together, no matter how ridiculous the attack really is, how trollish.  

by georgep 2007-11-12 03:06PM | 0 recs
Re: Not about Edwards, George.

Some Edwards supporters are following him over the cliff.  It is lunacy what they all are trying to do to the party.

Obama even won't / can't go there.

by dpANDREWS 2007-11-12 04:56PM | 0 recs
I find you to be a hypocrite

is that comment troll ratable?

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 04:08PM | 0 recs
that "1" is for

your troll rating, George.

I see you as just another areyouready in a suit.    

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:34PM | 0 recs
Re: that "1" is for

What the heck?  So you don't even rate for a comment, just because YOU were the recipient of a rating?  A retaliatory rating now?   Should I go through all your comments and zero-rate them now just for the heck of it?  And, this last line was another attack on a fellow poster, which you should not engage in.  Do you even care about the rules of this site?

by georgep 2007-11-12 12:37PM | 0 recs
Re: that "1" is for

You don't wear suits, do you?  Not these days.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 02:43PM | 0 recs
Re: that "1" is for

Haven't worn a suit in years.  My work allows me to create web sites from home, in my pajamas, if I feel like it.  Or I work at a client's place, but us web designers aren't expected to show up in suits, just t-shirt, shorts, jeans, etc.  

So, yes, the suit reference was an insult by itself, no question.   :-)

by georgep 2007-11-12 03:18PM | 0 recs
Re: that "1" is for

I thought so.  Just couldn't imagine it, George, and I knew you had the perks of self-employment.

Tees and jeans, maybe a pair of chinos.  Ain't IT great?

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 03:41PM | 0 recs
Re: that "1" is for

It is absolutely awesome.  I am around for my 2-year old quite a bit, which is the best thing about all of it.  Sometimes I have to remind my wife that I am not really "there" (although technically I am) to get a project done.  Then again, I am a nightowl, and my best work is done after hours, late at night, anyway.    

by georgep 2007-11-12 04:24PM | 0 recs
the good guy pajama media :)

there ya go!

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 04:10PM | 0 recs
I sent an email earlier in the week

The Edwards supportesr, Tom chief among them are out of control.  

by dpANDREWS 2007-11-12 04:57PM | 0 recs
havin a melt down are we?

why not call someone a troll. or try to ban them or  zero rate and disappear their opinions or something...

it might make you feel better...

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 12:41PM | 0 recs
Re: Not one Clinton supporter

BTW, I am not a Clinton supporter.  I just think the blog have been taken over by a lot of hysteria that should be countered.

And  why would anyone be obligated to "defend" her vote? You think people are obligated to argue with haters?  Hasn't this all been hashed and rehashed about 5 billion times?

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:53PM | 0 recs
Open your eyes Tom

Your candidate is in third place in a state he has campaigned in for 4 years.  Worse, he has no plan B.

I offered:

"One of the problems is that he is hitting her on her strength.   Democrats when polled view her as the strongest and best to deal with matters of security.   Perhaps Edwards would be more effective he hit her on economic themes that dove tailed with his populist speil."

You zero'd it.  Which really shows the state of denial that you are in.  Edwards is losing and his attacks gain him no ground.

I suggest you ask yourself, or fellow Edwards supporters, what he can do to win.  Offer up some intelligent strategy  here instead of just rah rah bs and zeros.

by dpANDREWS 2007-11-12 04:51PM | 0 recs
You being disgusting again.

We don't call candidates "dogs."

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:10PM | 0 recs
Re: You being disgusting again.

Tom, please quit the gratuitous zero-rating.  The way you use it is not the way it was intended to be used.

by georgep 2007-11-12 12:15PM | 0 recs
but it makes him feel power-filled

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 12:51PM | 0 recs
Re: You being disgusting again.

"attack dog" is a term often used when people attack each other in politics.  You know that. Stop attacking people here.  Politicians are fair game, even John Edwards.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:58PM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions If
This video expresses the last two weeks for the Clinton Campaign
http://ugv.abcnews.go.com/player.aspx?id =1071256
by CardBoard 2007-11-12 11:57AM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions If

LOL!  How perfectly symbolic.  Unfortunately, if Hillary gets the nomination I think it will be too true.  I don't think she has either the necessary gifts or the passionate resolve to set this democracy back on its feet.  She will probably make some excuse like, "The stands need to be better weighted."

by ashlarah 2007-11-12 12:41PM | 0 recs
Hillary In The Kitchen

I say let's turn the heat way up high and give her reason to sweat a lot in the kitchen.

by sparkleon 2007-11-12 12:10PM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions If Clinton Will Actually

he stands for not being Clinton.   He stands for attacking other democrat's character.  He stands for the opposite of what he stood for in 2004.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-12 12:18PM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions If Clinton Will Actually

Glad to see you admit the CORPORATE media promotes CORPORATE candidates like Obama and Hillary whose political careers have been funded by CORPORATE lobbyists and PACs.

by annefrank 2007-11-12 12:19PM | 0 recs
suicide

Edwards is a suicide bomber, the question is whether he'll be able to actually explode together with his targeted candidate Hillary, or whether he'll actually end up explode with Obama.

The DC pundits will eat their cake in the end.

by prisonbreak 2007-11-12 12:19PM | 0 recs
areyouready, we don't

call Democratic presdiential candidates terrorists here.

You are such a gutless troll.

by TomP 2007-11-12 12:27PM | 0 recs
Rush

is that you?  Or is it Anne?

by Ellinorianne 2007-11-12 12:52PM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions If

Oh, please.

The real question is will Hililary actually turn up the heat on Bush and the Republicans?

She has yet to do so.

She is voting with them on the Peru Free Trade Agreement, she voted with them on the Kyle-Lieberman Resolution and her stand on Iraq, is similiar to Bush's---continue with combat misssions which is to continue with war.

We don't need just a little bit better than a Republican.

by NCDemAmy 2007-11-12 12:19PM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions If

Hillary was a Republican before she was a Democrat.

by SharC 2007-11-12 01:10PM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions If

Yeah, she was a Republican 40 years ago.  What's your point?

by Denny Crane 2007-11-12 01:34PM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions If

She seems to be confused at times as to which party she belongs to.

by SharC 2007-11-12 02:12PM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions

Glad to see you admit the CORPORATE media promotes CORPORATE candidates like Obama and Hillary whose political careers have been funded by CORPORATE lobbyists and PACs.

by annefrank 2007-11-12 12:19PM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions If Clinton Will Actually

As I recall there were numerous diaries about the polls showing us she is ahead in Iowa and will sweep it.  
Now we are coordinating with McCauliffe to lower expectations?

Why can't she win Iowa?  
When people see her up close they don't like the fake questions and answers?

She is spending more money in Iowa and so what is her weakness?  
And if she can't win in Iowa how can she be a good GE candidate?

She has a couple of tough weeks and the campaign starts making all kinds of mistakes.
Not the flawless campaign afterall.

by pioneer111 2007-11-12 12:38PM | 0 recs
if i had Godlike magical powers Id say:

here Edwards..here's Iowa ..take it ..its yours..its free..

I would...

cause then THAT  would totally screw Barrack...Edwards would STILL lose in and NH and SC

and Barry would be toast, but NH would be more fun though...and since im gonna be up there, i always go - I call it political mardi gras - thats important to me..

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 12:50PM | 0 recs
Re: Edwards Questions If Clinton Will Actually

"And if she can't win in Iowa how can she be a good GE candidate?"

Is that a joke?  You do realize that we've had folks win elections without winning in Iowa, don't you? Are you suggesting that Iowa is representative of the rest of the country?

by Denny Crane 2007-11-12 01:32PM | 0 recs
Turn Up the Heat?

Gee, that was fun.  Good to see MyDD living up to it's richly deserved reputation for cafeteria food-fights.  Thanks, all.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-12 02:48PM | 0 recs
BUT

I think somebody wants to go to the principal and have some of his classmates expelled..

My  only real worry is that he'll go home from school and kick the dog cause he's soooo mad and frustrated at how those new kids in class pick on him....

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 04:19PM | 0 recs
now THAT was FUNNY!

by holden caulfield 2007-11-12 04:13PM | 0 recs
Lying about Kyl Lieberman

Doesn't make me hopeful.

by Edgar08 2007-11-12 09:03PM | 0 recs

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