Top ten reasons I support Edwards
by jct
Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 05:57:21 AM PDT
For me it always comes back to Edwards, none of the other candidates come close. Here are my top 10 reasons for supporting him (in no particular order):
- He is out front and strongly pro-labor. He mentions the need to strengthen unions in every speech at every stop. Bonior, a great friend of labor, is his campaign manager. Who a candidate surrounds him or herself with shows who they are.
- He is out front and strongly against corporate power. He doesn't tiptoe around the issue by talking about how we have to tweak the rules, he calls it like it is.
[The system is] controlled by big corporations, the lobbyists they hire to protect their bottom line and the politicians who curry their favor and carry their water. And it's perpetuated by a media that too often fawns over the establishment, but fails to seriously cover the challenges we face or the solutions being proposed. This is the game of American politics and in this game, the interests of regular Americans don't stand a chance.
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- His personal history shows he has always held these values. Coming out of law school he must have had his choice of jobs. In law school students are heavily steered towards corporate law. Instead, he chose to challenge the corporations on behalf of the average person.
- He is personally very appealing and this counts big time. In the studies cited in "The Political Brain" by Drew Westen it is one of the top reasons voters choose a candidate.
- He speaks to my heart when he talks about how America can be a leader in the world to help people. It answers a longing for the end of this nightmare of horrors being done in our name.
- He is working harder than anyone to get the nomination, as shown by his much more frequent appearances in the early primary states than the other candidates. http://www.openleft.com/...
- His health care plan offers a government program that gives people the option to have health care run for people not profit. Sure, I'd prefer single payer, but, this is the best being offered by anyone but Kucinich (who has a truckload of other problems).
- He comes from a working class background.
- Elizabeth Edwards. It tells you a lot about a man who he chooses as his wife.
- Hey, if we have to look at someone's face for the next 4 (let's hope 8) years, let's have it be a handsome one.
So why do you all support Edwards?
2 comments:
Edwards is not my choice. I'd put him at the bottom of my list. Hedge fund experience just to know what it is all about? Beyond the personal not clicking with his personality kind of reasoning, I just don't see evidence that he knows how to run things.
All the candidates are flawed. The thing is is to pick out the flaws that you're most comfortable with and go with those. Of all the Dems Richardson's experience is the most impressive. He's held ministerial positions in national government, served as an international troubleshooter, U.N. delegate, and is in his current executive post as governor. We ought to rule out all the senators (prior and current) because history shows that only two have ever won the presidency--they don't have executive experience. But of them all, demographically, Edwards is probably the most electable.
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