Edwards Evening News Roundup-6/05 The Happy Anniversary To Me Edition
Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 07:26:33 PM PDT
Yes, that's right today is my 31st wedding anniversary...31 years to a wonderful, caring and understanding man. A man much like John Edwards...or at least that's how I see him. I guess that' what appeals to me so much in John Edwards. I see a leader. I see a man that will unite the country. I see loyal husband and father and so much more....the same as I see in my hubby. Pity for hubby though...I'm sure not Elizabeth Edwards but she is someone I look up to and I do wish I could be more like her. Ok, that's all the gushy mushy stuff for now...on to the news for tonight...
One thing I can say is after watching the Republican debate tonight, any of the candidates we have could run circles around the Republicans...of course with Edwards being the best :-). Seriously though, the Republicans have boxed themselves into such a corner, all they can do is talk around every issue. It was hilarious to watch. They can't get away from Bush fast enough...the only problem is they are trying to give him to the Democrats saying he has turned from conservative roots bla bla bla or something close to that. I thought my head was going to explode listening to that garbage.
Ok, now for a short news wrap-up...
Haircuts Don't Make John Edwards a Hypocrite
Since it’s already come up and will come up more in our campaign season, let’s have a vocabulary lesson.
Today’s word is "hypocrisy." On dictionary.com, it’s "a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs."
Now, let’s pretend we’re at last week’s National Spelling Bee, and use it in a sentence or two:
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You could have called President Bush a hypocrite earlier this year when he gave speeches flanked by military members who weren’t allowed to speak, and said Democrats trying to attach timetables to Iraq war funding were engaging in "political theater."
We know what is a hypocrite, so let’s talk about what isn’t — John Edwards. You’ll be told over the next few months he’s a hypocrite because he’s a millionaire lecturing about how hard it is for people living in poverty.
Ask these people why it’s hypocritical to want to help a social class you aren’t a part of. Also ask if it was hypocritical for any white person to participate in the civil rights movement in the 1960s because they weren’t black. I think you have your answer
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In fact, you’re more likely to hear hypocrisy from the supposedly liberal media that’s tasked to cover Edwards:
Brian Williams of NBC News appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman a few months ago, and conversation shifted to $400 haircuts Edwards had received. Williams said the most he’s ever paid for a haircut was "probably $12." Well, Brian, I’ve never been on the cover of Men’s Vogue like you have, and I’ve paid more than $12 for a haircut several times.
But that doesn’t make him a hypocrite. Williams also told Letterman the haircut talking point was petty and there’s "no reason for us to continue talking about it." Yet two days later, he became a hypocrite when he moderated a presidential debate on MSNBC and brought up haircuts in the second question he asked Edwards.
I can't copy anymore of the article except the last line but I suggest you read it...some really good stuff.
He goes on to talk about Katie Couric and the way she treated John and Elizabeth during the interview the weekend after they told us Elizabeth cancer had returned. He also says that you might disagree with Edwards on other issues but you can't call him a hypocrite.
here is his last line...
But don’t vote against Edwards for being a hypocrite on poverty. He’s not.
http://www.cnjonline.com/...
This article is from Marc Hansen from the DesMoinesRegister.com
"Rep. Ed Fallon, D-Des Moines, cast the sole dissenting vote."
I miss reading that sentence in the paper. It still holds true, though.
The Democrats are flexing their muscles in Iowa and beyond, but Fallon is still dissenting. For instance:
He's disappointed in his friends at the Statehouse. They aren't going far enough to further the progressive cause. Where's the campaign finance reform? Where's the health care legislation? What about those corporate hog confinements?
He thinks the field of Democratic presidential candidates might be the best ever, with John Edwards at the top of the class.
He wishes the media would get off Edwards' back and away from Edwards' hair.
http://desmoinesregister.com/...
Here is part of a good article from Media Matters concering the media's distortion of the fact that only now are Democrats talking about thier faith and pandering to voters when in reality, it's always been an important part of who they are.
On the June 4 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, previewing the Presidential Forum on Faith, Values, and Poverty that aired later that day on CNN, congressional correspondent Dana Bash said to host Wolf Blitzer: "[W]e are going to hear from Democratic presidential candidates talking about something, as you said, we usually hear about -- at least in the last couple of elections -- from Republicans, and that is, they are going to talk about their faith, their religion, and their values." But, contrary to the suggestion that up to now Democrats have talked little about religion and values, as Media Matters for America has documented, many Democratic presidential hopefuls -- current and former -- have discussed their faith publicly and have made frequent references to "values," a concept that CNN reporters have all too often attached to conservative voters, ignoring the centrality of "values" in political and policy statements on such issues as human rights, equal justice, and anti-poverty.
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CNN special correspondent Soledad O'Brien -- as well as Faith and Values correspondent Delia Gallagher on the June 5 edition of CNN Newsroom -- also suggested that Democrats have only recently begun talking about faith
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Edwards on faith and on values
During his 1998 U.S. Senate race, Edwards said: "People are going to evaluate me and judge me on my own merits and say thumbs up or thumbs down. ... I grew up in rural North Carolina. I grew up in the Baptist church." On the February 20, 2005, edition of ABC's This Week, Edwards said: "My relationship with the Lord and my relationship with my family is everything to me. ... [My faith] informs everything I do, not just my politics."
After winning election to the Senate in 1998, Edwards said: "I think the fact that I grew up in North Carolina and share their values resonated with them." Accepting the vice-presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Edwards said of his parents: "You taught me the values that I carry in my heart: faith, family, responsibility, opportunity for everyone. You taught me that there's dignity and honor in a hard day's work. You taught me to always look out for our neighbors, to never look down on anybody, and treat everybody with respect." On the February 20, 2005, This Week, Edwards also said: "People here have to know you understand their lives and you embrace the same kind of values, the very values we talked about at the very beginning of this discussion, hard work and responsibility, of everybody getting an equal chance. People have to know you get them."
http://mediamatters.org/...
Ok that's it for the news tonight and don't forget to check on John Edwards web site for what is coming up in his campaign.
http://johnedwards.com/
