The new ad is brilliant! John Edwards, the next president of the USA. Yes!!!

CIAO EVERYONE. MSN & CNN JUST READ THE SLANDEROUS QUOTE FROM FOX EMBEDS re. 1. Obama is a Mulim 2, when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran. 3, Obama refuses to salute the flag , et. al
Great God Almighty, ALL LIES. ALL LIES. ALL LIES. AS THE ANCHORMAN SAID, “IT DOES PROVE ONE THING, HOW LOW PEOPLE CAN STOOP. WHOMEVER WROTE THE TRASH IS WORSE THAN ANY CHARGE THEY WROTE.

HERE’S HOPING BRILLIANT HACKERS CAN TRACK DOWN THE DESPICABLE TWEEBS & THEY CAN BE TRIED FOR SLANDER. IT FOR SURE WAS NOT “SATIRE” OR “PARADY.”

HELLO. THE END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS. PERHAPS YOU BELONG WITH THE LIKES OF LENIN, STALIN, JIM JONES . IT REALLY IS–THE WAY YOU PLAY THE GAME THAT TELLS THE WARRIOR HEROES IN THIS WORLD.

YAHOO. IT IS NOT NOT NOT TRUE; ALL WRITTEN BY SOME PITIFUL, TWISTED.
EVER ONWARD AND UPWARD ! EMPOWER AMERICA! I LOVE YOU EDWARDS. ENFORCE THE ANTI-TRUST LAWS;

It is unfortunate that the current campaign IS about color and race and not about representing the everyday person. Finally, John Edwards, a candidate who is not bought and paid for by special interests; but the media is more interested in the constant attention grabbing tactics of Clinton and Obama. John Edwards has not stooped to their level to grab attention.

John, you are a true gentleman, who continues to be consistent. John has my vote for President!

“Edwards has since modified his position to not allow lobbyists to unduly influence his White House.”

This is incorrect. John Edwards stands by his position to have no corporate lobbyists working in his White House. What you write above is more similar to Hillary Clinton’s position; she argues that she’s strong enough to stand up to the corporate interests whose money sustains her campaign.

I like Senator Edwards.

I like his style, his attitude, his overall demeanour. This is all probably because I like his oratory.
He has a fine outstanding message of substance and his virtues as a southern gentleman come across refinedly well. His arguments are solid and his insights and life experiences profound.

Now, I’m an Obama man. America doesn’t need more policy, it needs huge sweeping change and the political status quo dealt to. It’s that horrific and toxic status quo that produced the likes of J Edgar Hoover, Mc Carthy, Nixon and Bush. Terrible neo cons who invaded and destroyed lives and families. and basically with unproven cliches. Right up till today. More than anything else at this present time america needs change from the clear and present danger within it’s borders.

My hope is that America will indeed vote for Obama and he in turn will invite Senator Edwards to be his vice president. This will present two great healthy and much needed initiatives to the white House. a representative of black America and a representative of southern America.

The south needs recognition and representation in a big wayand not only that but the south is becoming a united voice like no time since the civil war. John Edwards has defended the Stars and Bars and talks of two Americas. Two Americas are a reality and the north created the civil war because it feared the other America and wanted it stopped. In recent years there has developed a rennaisance in the south and the people have revived their pride and heritage and are taking steps to voice themselves very substancially over the next two years. for Senator Edwards to voice his loyalties so unashamedly in the public arena is a signal he has a supported confidence. If the south itself becomes aware of his bold verbal affirmatives at a time they are regenerating their culture there is no reason in the next few months to see a surge that could well put Edwards and Obama in the White House.

Have you noticed how well they get on together even in the debates. I think this comparision between Hillary and Senator Edwards is a red herring. The communication between himself and Obama is much better.

It is easy to prove on the web that John Edwards is telling the truth about NOT lobbyist money. At the ‘rollcalll’ web site, you’ll see that Edwards’ name doesn’t even appear. Clinton has a page full of lobbyist endorsements and Obama has quite a few as well.

It is also easy to prove that John Edwards has almost zero in corporate PAC contributions. ‘Opensecrets’ lists him with $500, Obama with $3,000, Hillary with about $10,000, and the republicans with many tens of thousands in corporate PAC contributions.

So … you can believe John when he says he is not indebted to lobbyists or corporate PACS. He is a man of principle, and I admire him enormously.

Edwards is a whiner. It won’t be long before his skeletons are exposed. The Dems are a pathetic bunch.

Who cares where they get money? Just because they get money from a source does not mean they are beholden to act for that source. This kind of faulty logic is why our children are absolutely retarded when it comes to communication.

It doesn’t matter if I get money from a murderer, that does not make me a murderer. Stop pandering and chasing ambulances, Edwards. Your name is synonymous with sycophancy, so please just go away.

“He reasons that one cannot reduce the power of lobbyists who control Washington if he or she is accepting their money.”

You are almost there. John Edwards reasons that one cannot reduce the power of “corporations who control Washington” if one is accepting their money. We must remember that lobbyist donations are only one component of the corruption that has infested our system.

John Edwards is dead right to take the stand he has taken. It is a principled stand and one that he backs up with action. It is a stand that other candidates seem unfortunately reluctant to embrace.

It would be a welcome sign of “change” if the media could take a similar stand and stop obsessing about money raised, race, gender, religion, and age and speak about principle, character, and policy instead.

I admire John’s stance on this, but he should also give fair acknowledgment to Obama, who might have people who volunteered for him that were previously lobbyists, but he also ran a fund-raising campaign for his Presidential bid that decidedly rejected the kind of money (and the influence it buys) that John is referring to.

Granted, he might not have taken that position throughout his entire career, but he is with it now - and John, if you can’t at least acknowledge that then aren’t you engaging in your own bit of swift-boating ala Hillary style?

I see you and Obama as people who could make a good team together - you should go on the same ticket and I think Obama admires your principles and what you stand for.

You people are so naive. Do you really think that Edwards is not going to be influenced by lobbyists? There have always been lobbyists and there will always be lobbyists in Washington D.C. Besides he does not have a snow balls chance in hell of winning the nomination which is a good thing because of the three Dems running he is probably the worst. His whole platform is that business is screwing everyone and that government needs to swoop in and save the day. This from a man who has never run a business in his life and has no idea what it takes to make a payroll for his employees. What he and others don’t get is if you hurt business the people will be the ones who get hurt the most. I don’t know about you, all but a business employees me and when they have a good year we all benefit. If you increase taxes on business to “get even” they will lay people off and increase prices on goods.

Any candidate is influenced by lobbyists. In case the moral outrage group has forgotten, lobbyists are voters too. They have every right to lobby, demand, and receive — just like every other voter.

The problem is when the lobbyist has access that is deemed unfair, not when they simply give money. John Edwards, Obama, and their harpies forget this little fact and just pretend that all lobbyists are inherently evil. They’re not. They’re usually American voters like everyone else who have the money to give and, sometimes, are listened to individually. Just like every other voter has the chance to be listened to individually.

It’s the ones that ONLY listen to lobbyists that are bad. I do not believe we have a single candidate who is known to listen just to lobbyists. So do us all a favor, Edwards and Obama shrills — stop trying to silence Americans just because they are also lobbyists.

Reality check.

For a LobbyIST to survive, you need a LobbyEEE.

LobbyEEE = Congress!

LobbyEEE’s existence is driven exclusively by working on their next election cycle which takes big bucks.

Nothing more, nothing less.

The only way to break the back of our prostituting, unethical, entrenced, out of touch, out of control, parlimentary procedure focused, career LobbyEEE’s (Congress!) is to have a grass roots effort to get TERM LIMITS for Respresentatives and Senators passed!

Without term limits, you will NEVER clean out the politicians that know how to play the politcal games that serve THEMSELVES (remember this) and NOT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. Washington is a world unto itself (protected from any of common folk’s everyday concerns and pressures) and if you beleive for one second that these career politicians have an ounce of concern for our well being then you are totally NAIVE.

TERM LIMITS is the only solution. But don’t expect Congress to pass this since it is not in THEIR best interest.

Grass roots effort for TERM LIMITS is the only way to enact REAL change.

Reality Check, term limits are a joke. If a politician does a good job, it should be the right and duty of the American people to allow that politician to stay in office without reactionary, knee-jerk paranoia.

Allowing our good leaders to remain while removing the bad leaders should be the goal, not turning our country into McDonalds.

Edwards is taking money and support from individual lawyers, rather than taking it from them as a group. He’s also taking money and support from unions, who are special interest groups full of lobbyists. He thinks he’s fooling people nitpicking the other candidates and pointing fingers, he is the biggest jerk running besides Huckabee.

ok, I think he meant taking personal shots, not talking about the issues, AND during the debates, he gave them ample opertunity to clear this up, twice! They didn’t because they can’t. Now, not all lobists are bad for us, like the teachers union,et al. However, you can’t make a distinction so they all need to go. All this wonderful change every candidate is talking about will NEVER happen unless we stop the money changeing hands for legislature and to stop votes on things like health care, the enviroment, and tax cuts for polluters to name a few.
Edwards seems to be the only one willing to put his money where is mouth is. Good thing he has plenty of it! Maybe , finally , a guy that can’t be bought. We’ll see. I am leaning to Edwards more and more, I wish the media would feature him more, wonder why they don’t? I mean, I know why NBC/GE doesn’t, but the rest of the media is begining to seem a little biased as well. Or am I wrong?

Whatever happened to the rumors about John Edwards cheating on his wife. Has anyone found out who the guy is?

Here’s the real question:

WHY DOESN’T THE MEDIA BLAST THE LEFT FOR “ATTACK ADS” LIKE THEY DO THE RIGHT? The debate the other night was another example of how the Dems are in just as nasty a battle as the GOP, but for some reason the GOP is labeled as the nasty, attacking party.

Romney does an ad like this and he is labeled an attacker, negative campaigner, etc. Edwards does it and he’s standing up for the little guy.

Makes me sick.

Change will never happen as long as lobbyist have an influence. All candidates could easily be given the same amount to present their candidacy. This should not be about who has the most or who is the most easily influenced. All candidates could be given equal time on public tv and radio. The desire for change is great but not at the expense of what is in the best interest of this country. Each american should take a look at what our government is spending our hard earned money on. When a candidate can show what he or she can do to change the way we spend that money and what it will take to achieve that goal. Everyday is a Reality show in America. Let’s stop the giveaway society. Each American should earn his way in society. There are no free rides in Life. We should hold each other accountable and responsible for our actions on a daily basis.

ANYBODY AND I MEAN ANYONE ,EVEN MY MOM, THAT PAY’S 400 BUCK’S FOR A HAIRCUT LOSSES MY ATTENTION. I DONT KNOW HOW TO CONTROL THIS GUT BUSTING LAUGHING I HAVE WHEN I SEE SOME PEOPLE REALLY BELIEVE HIM.HA HA HA IF ANYONE’S INTERESTED I HAVE A CAR FOR SALE THAT RUN’S ON LOVE.HAHAHAHAHAH