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Post by redwolf on Jan 14, 2008 20:18:31 GMT -6
At this point I don't think Edwards has a chance, but I thought this article did a good job of showing how his message differs from Obama's and what the possible aftermath of an Obama win might look like. Edwards vs. Obama: Up with historyBY BOB GEARY Obama's sunny proposition is that "the cynics" are wrong, and the country will "come together around a common purpose" if we elect the right leader: someone, he told his Iowa supporters, who will work with Republicans and independents to "move beyond the divisions in Washington and ... the bitterness, pettiness and anger" hobbling our two-party politics. "You believed so deeply in the most American of ideas," Obama said, "that in the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
Edwards' darker view is "the system" is the problem, not just the current leadership. There are two sides in Washington, he argues: big corporations, and those who are supposed to represent regular folk but too often don't. The first side fights for its right to chase profits all over the globe, Edwards says. And anyone who thinks they'll "voluntarily compromise their power away ... they will drive through you like a freight train."
"If Edwards wins," Open Left writer Chris Bowers predicted last week, "the narrative will be about progressivism and populism rising. If Obama wins, the narrative will be about partisanship and ideology declining."www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A166509
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Post by nomad943 on Jan 14, 2008 20:37:12 GMT -6
>>> "If Edwards wins," Open Left writer Chris Bowers predicted last week, "the narrative will be about progressivism and populism rising. If Obama wins, the narrative will be about partisanship and ideology declining.".... Lol ... The author neglected the other distinct possibility, if Hillary wins ... Last I looked her lead has surged into double digits www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/mi/michigan_democratic_primary-238.htmlOf course she is the only name on the ballot but in this front loaded primary season complete with a large array of pre selected "super delegates", what does that relay say?
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