Diaries titled: Obama goes Negative on Edwards in Iowa DOES NOT HELP JOHN EDWARDS. Opinions like this will get Hillary the nomination.
Edwards and Obama should stay away from attacking each other and I know the Obama people understand this, which is why they have stayed away from this. I do not believe these negative attacks came from Obama. THINK ABOUT IT... wouldn't it be in Hillary's best interest to stir this pot? Hillary's people are as cut throat as Rove and have already applied some of their new rove-sque style 'politics of personal destruction' on OBAMA. Every time I hear the Clinton Campaign has let another volunteer go because they send emails accusing Obama of some awful plan to blow up America...and check out how the good Clinton Campaign states with detailed descriptions, every word of this possibly damaging information. I wish they would give the names of the fired workers... because my bet, there are no workers doing something so stupid. I believe this is a brilliant way for the Clinton people to get this bigoted story in the news once a week.
THE BEST WAY TO RUIN JOHN EDWARDS CHANCES TO WIN IOWA, IS TO PISS OFF OBAMA SUPPORTERS. Not everyone knows what happend in Iowa in 2000 but the BIG surprise there, was the nomination of John Kerry. How did 4th place Kerry win? Dennis Kucinich. because the caucus process is very, very different from primary voting the 4th place Kerry won on the second vote. How? Dennis Kucinich asked his people to vote for KERRY rather than the other anti Iraq war candidate DEAN. IN IOWA YOUR SECOND CHOICE IS AS IMPORTANT AS YOUR FIRST CHOICE... so, when Kucinich didn't win on the first vote, his people went to Kerry which won Kerry the nomination.
In my opinion this was sour grapes when Kucinich gave his support to Kerry rather than to the comitted peace candidate Dean, we ended up with 4 more catastrophic years of George W. Bush. Peace should come before ego.. I would like to see both Obama and Edwards people make an agreement that if neither man wins on the first vote that they go to their second choice which is Edwards or Obama (ie: If Obama doesn't win on the first vote, all his supporters would move to Edwards rather than to a democrat who cannot win or to Hillary Clinton, the queen of the status quo, the queen of the DLC and a person who has voted WITH BUSH-CHENEY and the NEOCONS ON EVERY FOREIGN POLICY VOTE INCLUDING her vote YES for the WAR, YES for the PATRIOT ACT and most recently YES to support BUSH\CHENEY Iran policy which was like a carbon copy of their Iraq war plan. NO MORE. WE NEED TO CHANGE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FROM THE TOP DOWN and that CANNOT happen if the two candidates committed to getting us out of Iraq and making stupid decisions in the primary that makes it impossible for Obama supporters to vote Edwards on their second vote... or vise versa. After months of research and keeping up with all the latest on both campaigns, I believe the best hope for a rapid end to the war in Iraq and the quick move to use diplomacy with Iran, etc. Senator Obama has not voted the way I wanted every time he votes... and yes, John Edwards did vote for the war... but he has redeemed himself... we need to let this shit go and make sure the candidate is either Edwards or Obama... cut the crap about who's doing personal attacks, the Obama people are too smart for that.... let's look at who would benefit most from these two camps clawing at each other... that would be Hillary Clinton. We need to be smart and work together on this.
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