Edwards promises to save middle class
In what his campaign billed as a major speech and in a new TV ad, John Edwards told Iowa Democrats that rising inequality threatens the middle class and the American dream.
"America was built on an idea – that all of us are equal," Edwards said today in a town hall in Ames, according to his campaign. "The idea that how hard you work, and what kind of choices you make will determine the kind of life you build, and what you pass onto your children -- but not the circumstances you're born into, never that. The greatness of America is that promise -- that every generation will leave its children a better life. That is our social compact with the middle class -- the promise that if you work hard and do what’s right, you’ll be able to build a better life for yourself and your family. But today, that compact is being threatened."
In the speech, and in the ad, unveiled on Saturday, Edwards said the culprits are corporate greed and a government that has sold out to big business.
"Corporate greed and influence in Washington are stealing our children's future," he says in the ad. "The moral test of our generation is whether we're going to allow this broken system to go on without a fight or take on corporate greed and stand up for the middle class and American jobs before it's too late. They aren't going to just give their power away."
"Saving the middle class is going to be an epic battle, and that’s a fight I was born for," Edwards pledges.
How about displaying your beliefs with standing up for a single payer health plan.That would show guts and integrity, Mr Edwards You would get my vote if you fought hard for the plan! That's a test of your character- how real are you?
Very True...but the American public are to disillusioned with the amount of credit that is available today such as; credit cards and home equity lines to really engage this growing and widening gap betwen the super-rich and middle class.
As big multi-national corporations bastardize the way of life that so many have shed their blood to protect, I am grateful for the stand John Edwards is taking.
Like Theodore Roosevelt, who surely must be turning in his grave, John Edwards gets it and, fortunately for us, has the guts to confront it.
Dems, get behind JoeBiden if your top priority is to beat the right-wingers in Nov. He has terrific experience, huge appeal to independents, a foreign policy master and he projects very well on TV - a nightmare for the right-wingers.
If Hillary, Obama, or Edwards is the nominee we will lose again to the right-wing hate machine. Their vulnerabilities are too great, starting with the fact that their foreign policy experience is weak at best - who better than Biden to manage the mess in Iraq that will be inherited from the Cheney-Bush team??
I shudder when I hear Hillary say "I will end the war in Iraq" how can she say that now when she has absolutely no idea what the situation will be in Jan 2009??
12/16/2007 9:48:54 PM
A has-been Neocon Israel-firster giving a reach-around to another has-been Neocon Israel-firster is far more important than a mandate for an America-firster.
JOHN EDWARDS will win BIG in Iowa and go on to to be one of America's greatest Presidents. EDWARDS will win because he represents the "little guy", and NOT the corporate interests, the lobbyists, BIG OIL, Halliburton, and the like who now control our government.
The corrupt and morally bankrupt Republican Party and their allies in the biased mass media would LOVE to see either "Billary" Clinton or Hussein Obama be the Democratic nominee, because they know that they could beat Clinton or Obama in the general election, but would have NO chance against Edwards.
JOHN EDWARDS will win BIG in Iowa and go on to to be one of America's greatest Presidents. EDWARDS will win because he represents the "little guy", and NOT the corporate interests, the lobbyists, BIG OIL, Halliburton, and the like who now control our government.
The corrupt and morally bankrupt Republican Party and their allies in the biased mass media would LOVE to see either "Billary" Clinton or Hussein Obama be the Democratic nominee, because they know that they could beat Clinton or Obama in the general election, but would have NO chance against Edwards.
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