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Edwards on Clinton: Either You Love Her or You Don't
August 15, 2007 6:08 PM
ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Either you love her or you don't -- that’s how former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., summed up Hillary Clinton -- his Democratic presidential rival -- during a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC's "Hardball."
"I think the reality is people in this country either love Hillary Clinton or they don't. And that's just the way she is in many ways through no fault of her own. And I think that's what Obama was talking about," said Edwards in reference to an interview that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., gave to The Washington Post.
While joining Obama in portraying Clinton as divisive, Edwards would not label her "corrupt" when prompted to do so by MSNBC's Chris Matthews.
In his interview with the Washington Post's Dan Balz, Obama argued that he has a greater capacity than Clinton to unify the country and move it out of what he called "ideological gridlock."
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Edwards and Obama can not be like Clinton. she is the rreal deal. i would say to them ' too much attack on Clinton will hurt you. Please try to unit the DEmocratic to defeat republicans". here what i would say Obama " you been senator only two years and you forget those who elected you. you are put of touch my friend even though i love you"
Posted by: abdirazak Ali | Aug 16, 2007 12:11:08 AM
Hillary was only a first lady, not the
President, therefore she has no Presidental experience. She made no decisions, past no bills. She has been
the Senator of NY for six years now and she is not concentrating on NYC, so if doesn't get the Presidency, she certainly won't be elected to NYC senate again. We now have Bloomberg imposing $8.00 a car to come in NYC, where people need to go work. Claiming it's for the environment and it really won't help the environment, and public transportation doesn't work for everyone in NYC. Hillary where are you on the this issues which will only hurt the working and middle class. Hillary has no experience, she just tries to imitate her husband Bill. Her name may get her nominated but a republican will win the election, thanks to the Democrats who don't realize that a women can win anyway.
Posted by: Alessan | Aug 16, 2007 1:44:50 AM
When Hillary loses, and Bill sees how much most of the world dislikes her, maybe he will go ahead and divorce her. He wanted to do that a long time ago. Just a thought.
Posted by: Mauna | Aug 16, 2007 9:25:18 AM
The obvious question then was..."Do you, Mr. Edwards, LOVE her or don't you?" Far as I can tell that was not asked. Probably why no one watches Matthews.
Posted by: Dave in PA | Aug 16, 2007 9:27:58 AM
HILLARY'S MY GAL!
Posted by: gerald clough | Aug 16, 2007 9:28:14 AM
Clinton, Mitt, Obama, Rudy, it does not matter. Unfortunately it took segregationist Governor Wallace to reveal the truth that "there's not a dime's worth of difference between" Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, detaining protestors, banning books like "America Deceived' from Amazon, stealing private lands (Kelo decision), warrant-less wiretapping and refusing to investigate 9/11 properly. They are both guilty of treason.
Posted by: Trent | Aug 16, 2007 9:29:56 AM
what business or gov't have any of the front running dems operated as the chief? whats wrong with people that they would vote for such inexperience to run the country?and this includes hillararious whom by the way doesn't want anyone to read her papers locked up in her library.This is the first time i'll vote independent if nader runs.bd
Posted by: billy dee | Aug 16, 2007 9:41:39 AM
Thank God for Hillary, she will make sure the republicans win in 2008 and also will instigate the key congressional defeats. Keep on going.
Posted by: Steve | Aug 16, 2007 9:45:12 AM
Steve is right, run Hillary run, you are guaranteeing that any opposite candidate will win. Remember the ABH factor, it will determine the next election. (Anybody But Hillary) She has enough idiots fooled out there, but not near enough to get her elected.
Posted by: greg | Aug 16, 2007 9:53:32 AM
Hillary is the most polarizing figures in politics today. Does she truly cared about the Democratic party and uniting the country? She strong armed other democratic candidates earlier this year, snubbing Obama after he entered the race. Now the other cadidates are finally taking the fight to her and her nonexistent political record. Hillary has no more experience than any other candidate and it is clear she will say/do anything for power. If only JFK Jr. had lived to run for the NY senate seat she filled, how different this race would be!
Posted by: Bobby | Aug 16, 2007 9:55:04 AM
I have no love for these corrupt, fraudulent people, but consider: Bill is the brains of that relationship, and I predict Bill does some small thing to ensure her failure in 2008. That way, he can escape that horrible situation and diddle all the young harlots he wishes until he dies.
Not that it will make any difference. Clinton can't win a national election, she's hated through and through by a majority of voters and they will turn out to crush her.
Posted by: fezziwig | Aug 16, 2007 10:03:13 AM
If Hillary is so experienced, why has she locked away her White House records ??
Posted by: Francis | Aug 16, 2007 10:12:56 AM
It's simple really. Either you love being LIED to or you HATE LIARS. Bill is and will be the biggest lying POS ever elected to the office of the President. That is unless Hillary gets elected. Let's face it, she spent 8 years watching Bill get away with it. Do we want more of that?
But it's not just Hillary who learned from Bill,
Biden and Dodd have believability issues. Edwards most sounds and looks like Bill the Liar only more transparently PHONY. Shakespeare said it best about men like Edwards. Obama, he looks good, sounded good at the convention and gave me hope that he was for real. Well his run for the nomination has dashed that, he has opened his mouth and revealed just how little he really knows and has looked stupid doing it. Only 1 Democrat is real, the real Marxist/Leninist willing to show his true colors. Of course that would be old Dennis Kucinich.
And there is the rub for me. The Democrat party I grew up with, believed in, worked hard for, has forsaken it's historical roots. It has mutated horribly from the party of FDR, JFK, Scoop Jackson and other true champions of Freedom and Liberty, it has become a clone of the worst in Soviet political history with a prettier face. It is coming frighteningly close to making Nikita Kruschev's pronouncement come true "we will destroy you from with in" come true.
We all saw what happened to the most recent Democrat who acted in the manner of the party's former giants. Thank you Joe for standing tall. Thank you Democrats for pushing him into the ranks of Independants and some day a Republican. He get's it! You don't.
I only wish that Sam Nunn would have stood up against the Marxist/Lenist wing of the party and had run for the Presidency. And I think he's right, the counrty does need a viable 3rd party. So you might want to check out the Concord Party.
Posted by: Dave In Iowa | Aug 16, 2007 10:15:24 AM
One of the most idiotic political television ads is now running in Iowa, put on by the California Nurses Association. It features a guy making the case for a single payer health care plan, and then turning to a cardboard cut-out of John Edwards and bashing him for not favoring it. Although Kucinich favors a single payer plan, Edwards is the only candidate who is putting forward a plan for truly universal health care, albeit by allowing people currently in private plans to keep them, and having the Federal government insure the uninsured. What is with the Edwards' bashing? On a variety of issues, he's providing by far the most detailed and cost specific plans of any candidate, as opposed to spewing the deniable generalities like all the other candidates. John Edwards is intelligent, tough, fair, and truly compassionate. People need to see beyond the breaking of the ultimate glass ceiling and give an objective look at each of these candidates based upon their character and positions on the issues. Beyond that, Democrats need to remember that the record setting high negatives of Hillary Clinton in the primaries and and lack of maturity/experience of Barak Obama could easily cause the bottom to drop out in a general election that they should win.
Posted by: sps91158 | Aug 16, 2007 10:28:44 AM
When I look at Hillary the only thing I can see is her Hippy looking style along side Bill with the long hair,colored spectacles, and shouting peace and down with the U.S. Government.How could anyone even "consider" her for President much less vote for her. As for Obama...that name is too close to Osama for me. He thinks his vocabulary will get him elected and is not worried about experience...forget about it!!
Posted by: Tom | Aug 16, 2007 10:54:05 AM
I liked very much what Francis had to say. It was right on. The democratic party has gone so far to the left that if they took one more step to the right they would fall off planet earth. We are in very hard times when our enemies want to kill each and every one of us. The democat party shows nothing but signs of defeat only because the far left which is full of unamericans is running the party. God help us if a democrat wins. Barak Hussein Obama is so inexperienced that each day he opens his mouth crap comes out. He could not make two mice come together. Edwards talks about poor people is so laughable and stupid. Mrs. Clinton is so corrupt she should with her husband be wering orange jump suits.
Posted by: Mitch | Aug 16, 2007 10:55:24 AM
I believe that men who haven't ever voted will register, put down their Bud Lights, relinquish their remote and go to the polls to vote against Hillary. The response against her will be unprecedented! I promise! Oh, yes and let me predict it won't only be men, every female I know despise this woman and can see through her imperious, haughty, holier than thou attitude...she might think she is a sure winner, but she is in for a very big surprise. I can't wait to see the look on her face the day after the election.
Posted by: JMD | Aug 16, 2007 11:05:01 AM
"I think the reality is people in this country either love Hillary Clinton or they don't."
Wow, what insight! I love how John Edwards takes an issue and breaks it down so that even we common people can understand... When are you coming back to NH, Johnny? Or have you given up in NH as you've done in Nevada?
Posted by: SeamusNH | Aug 16, 2007 11:05:18 AM
If Hillary is nominated a year from now at the DNC, in the words of Michel LeGrand's 1962 song, "Watch What Happens"! You are going to witness the largest influx of campaign workers for the RNC ever. She is certainly one of the most hated women in America. Rove is right - she is fatally flawed.
Posted by: Len | Aug 16, 2007 11:12:15 AM
sps91158, you (rightly) mention Obama's lack of experience, but then tout Edwards? I generally disagree with Democrats, but I can generally appreciate their arguments. But for God's sake, EDWARDS?!
Do you seriously think Edwards has any real executive experience? He dropped out of the Senate to stand on John Kerry's lackluster coattails when it became clear the once-duped voters of North Carolina were not going to return a "suit full of teeth" back for a second term (they didn't take it well when in 2000, two years into his term, he begin to neglect his Senate duties to make repeated visits to Iowa.)
The only experience Edwards has is in BS-ing gullible juries into awarding big settlements (of which he of course skimmed off his third) to families whose kids were born with cerebral palsy. Never mind there was never any science to back up his claim that it was caused by the delivery-room physicians (who needs science when you can "channel" the thoughts of an unborn child, as he once claimed?) Who cares if the if the number of Caesarean sections (most medically unnecessary but now mandated by hospitals' legal departments) quadrupled because of his efforts? Who cares if it is a leading cause of the increase in medical and insurance costs, which he now makes the cornerstone of his campaign.
What an incredibly sleazy individual, the very epitome of the stereotypical ambulance-chasing scheister lawyer! The guy is a plastic politician right out of central casting, and yet he's managed to bamboozle a sizable fraction of the Democrat electorate, simply by playing on sympathy about his lower-middle-class upbringing, his dying wife, his dead son .
It's amazing how far good hair can take you.
Posted by: p3orion | Aug 16, 2007 11:13:47 AM
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