Edwards Directs Message to African-American Voters
Standing in a hall where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once held meetings at the height of the Civil Rights movement, John Edwards addressed issues of racial inequality to a crowd of South Carolinians who gathered to hear him speak at the Penn Center in St. Helena Island.
“Race plays an enormous role in the economic conditions of Americans,” Edwards told the audience. “We can pretend it’s not true but decade after decade of slavery followed by decade after decade of segregation, followed by decade after decade of discrimination has an impact. It has an effect.”
The senator recited statistics to illustrate such disparities, saying that blacks “average about ten percent of the net worth of white families.”
He then focused his attention on health care problems that are endemic to the black community—such as heart disease and diabetes—and stressed the need for a universal health care plan that covers all Americans.
“You are more likely to have serious health care problems,” he said of African Americans, “and less likely to have health care coverage.”
Edwards has visited his native South Carolina more times than the other Democratic candidates. A comeback victory here, after his third place finish in New Hampshire, would be possible if he wins over the African American voters, who make up nearly half of the state’s electorate. According to exit polls from the 2004 Democratic presidential election, Edwards won 37% of the black vote in South Carolina in securing that state’s primary victory.
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Please, South Carolinians, consider what I am about to say.
I am a black American female from the state of California.
I will be voting for John Edwards in the California Primary.
He is the strongest candidate the Democratic Party can put forward
to defeat and win against the Republicans.
Please do not drink the Kool-Aid being served by the owners of the
media and their paid on air broadcast whores, no matter how
many times they bring it around.
John Edwards has spent his life fighting the entrenched
corporate powers. Hillary Clinton is one of the corporate elites,
and my dear brother, Barack Obama, he is very naive. He is
being used by the same corporate elites as those Hillary Clinton
is a part of.
At this time in our history, it is crucial for the, American poor and
American middle class, white and black, to have a candidate
whose allegiance is to the American people, and not
some unknown foreign interests.
I wish I knew what else to say to convince you to vote for
Senator John Edwards. Here is a little known reported fact:
Edwards beats all Republicans in Ohio and NC when matched up,
and Clinton and Obama do not.
Allow me to quote something I read written by another person from California:
“I am a Edwards supporter and I will be with him to the convention and the end. I’m a liberal Democrat and I’m tired of Democratic Party leaders pushing Clinton and Obama down our throat. They know longer represent our interest. They’re in the pocket of corporate America. We in California watched as a oil company raised our heating prices. Health care, just look at the medicare mess. Move on criticize a general, a Democratic leader went after Bush and what did our congressional leaders do, they censored them. Pelosi complains about anti-war demonstrators at her home but the Iraqi War was the reason she became majority leader. Feinstein supports an attorney general that can’t figure out that water boarding is torture. When some want to censor her, we’re told by California leadership that the left who question her don’t matter. Hillary moves to the center. She is no longer a liberal Democrat. She’s a progressive. We had NAFTA from her husband’s administration. She supported the latest trade agreement. Obama wants to compromise with these people. We who are liberal have compromised enough. Just look at our country. No one wants to raise taxes, so our schools, our roads and our state parks will take a hit and the rich will get richer and more of the young men from the middle class and lower class will go to war, a war that our present President wants to continue for another ten years. We need Edwards in this race. He represents us and he is ready to fight for us.”
In closing let me say: Citizens of South Carolina, the citizens of
California are counting on you to allow us to have our chance to
vote for John Edwards for President of the United States.
God Help Us All.
Restoring the Middle Class, prosperity and quality jobs in the United States
You must have a viable strategy that will be inherently financially supported and carried forward by the “invisible hand of economic globalization”.
The US is declining as the global economic leader, only because the Fed Gov does not have a viable strategy. The US became the Economic Leader of the World only by the supported hard work of technically creative individuals, engineers and scientists, inventors, who led the world in INNOVATION (Greenspan has listed INNOVATION as the missing ingredient in the current US strategy, that previously was in place, and the Intellectual Property and Patents, built this country to be the world leader).
As a graduate engineer and small entity inventor, I have started ventures and provided quality jobs, however, the large entities, like the old “robber barons” have managed to rob me of my money and Intellectual Property. I need to retrieve my Intellectual Property to benefit US quality jobs.
The current laws, gov, large entities, venture capitalists, and powers of influence, consider what actually built this US, now equals high risk, and strongly discourage and make unpopular, any financial support for qualified individual technologists, inventors, and start-ups. Studies at MIT have proven that individuals working independently have, always created the most significant inventions and manufacturing.
Restoring the Middle Class, prosperity and quality jobs in the US will only happen when you create a Fed Gov Support Program and restore tax shelters, financial support for individual qualified engineers, technologists, inventors, and start-ups. This will also solve the problem of math and science leadership of young people and support the neglected high IQ students to pursue math and science.
David Estabrooks, ScM
estabrooksdavid@yahoo.com
617-240-2968
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Indeed, with Obama you will get a mandate from the government to buy health insurance even if you cannot afford it and from Hillary you will get more of what you got now as far as health insurance goes.
The only candidate that is proposing a real solution is John Edwards.
“The Clintons have become simply too arrogant and self-serving and forgotten that their popularity was given to them by the American people, despite many shortcomings that they, as all mortals, succumb to. They need to remind themselves how blessed they really are instead of how entitled they should be with regards to the White House.” — New York Times post by Nguyen Chau Giao
John Edwards deserves our vote.
Edwards is the one candidate taking the extraordinary risk to speak out on behalf of the voiceless poor and working class Americans. Edwards is the candidate that the corporate elite amd media fear most.
This fairytale, freaking nightmare, must end.
We cannot survive a continuation of Bush-Clinton-Clinton-Bush-Bush-… politics.
Enough is enough!
PLEASE READ THIS!! Hillary is America’s best choice!
If you do not ever forward anything else, please forward this to all
your contacts…this is very scary to think of what lies ahead of us here
in our own United States…better heed this and pray about it and share it.
THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO. THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED,
“ONE NATION UNDER GOD”. ALMIGHTY GOD, NOT THE GOD OF THE KORAN.
We checked this out on “snopes.com “. It is
factual. Check for yourself. Who is Barack Obama?
Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu , Hawaii , Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel , Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHEIST from Wichita , Kansas .
Obama’s parents met at the University of Hawaii . When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya . His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia . When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia . Obama attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta. He also spent two years in a Catholic school.
Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point
out that, “He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school.”
Obama’s political handlers are attempting to make it appear that Obama’s introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any
direct influence over his son’s education. Lolo Soetoro, the husband of Obama’s
mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim
terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world. Since it is politically expedient to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United States , Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background. ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran (Their equivalency to our Bible, but very different beliefs)
Let us all remain alert concerning Obama’s expected presidential candidacy.
The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the U.S. from the inside out, what
better way to start than at the highest level - through the President of the United States , one of their own!!!
Clinton focuses on economy in Presidential race Obama focuses on RACE!Obama Trinity United Church of Christ, an African-American mega-church unorthodox pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright describing the September 11 attacks as a “wake-up call” to America for ignoring the concerns of “people of colour”, and for claiming that Americans “believe in white supremacy and black inferiority . . . more than we believe in God”. Wright travelled to meet Muammar Gadaffi, the Libyan leader, in the 1980s with Louis Farrakhan, the black supremacist leader of the Nation of Islam, and subscribes to the “Black Values System”, which preaches self-reliance but claims “middle-classness” is ensnaring blacks. Reverend Jeremiah Wright went to Tripoli to visit Colonel Gadaffi with Farrakhan., The arguement that Obama offers white voters a chance to free themselves from white guilt, is continuing to create a negative race issue..
Billionaire Clinton backer Bob Johnson, who founded Black Entertainment Television, said he’s “a little bit insulted, if you will, by Senator Obama letting his campaign imply that Hillary Clinton does not revere what Martin Luther King did for African Americans.”“I think that’s taking it way too far,” he said while campaigning with Clinton in South Carolina. “I think Barack understands clearly what the senator was saying.” “Nobody believes either Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton would say anything that would denigrate either Barack Obama or Martin Luther King. And to me, what may happen is a backlash may occur when people see that Barack Obama is allowing his PR people to let out the notion that Hillary Clinton did not respect everything that Dr. Martin Luther King or any other person who faced the problems and the threats of being a part of the civil rights movement faced. ““And to me, Barack knows better than that.
Edwards is the only candidate that can raise above all the squabbling and address the issues important to this country,
Both Clinton and Obama will carry on to the general election a great deal of baggage for the Republicans to exploit. From Bill’s womanizing to Obama’s Trinity Church, name, lack of experience….etc.
The country cannot afford to have another Republican and continue on the same path.
Someone has to change this country’s direction. Edwards is a fighter, he can do it.
This trial lawyer nonsense is annoying since many who express distaste for them, will call one if ever they suffer any pain and suffering due to injuries incurred through the possible negligence of others.
Check Robert Bork law suit against the Yale Club after slipping and falling. (6/07)
Mr. Bork a right wing judge (aspired to the Supreme Court) often expressed disdain for trial lawyers.
Ashley,
Have you completely lost your ever lovin’ mind? Where in heavan’s name did all that garbage come from? Don’t you recognise BS when you hear/see it? I am saddened to see such nonsense on any message board.
Oh, and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 attack….just in case no one told you….they also had no WMD, no nuclear capability and no intention or capability to do us any harm.
WWJW??