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  DrewReason at 05/22/2008 9:08:37 PM
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  Edwards is not even on Obama's Short List!!!!!!
  
  This is what happens when people watch television and get awed by politicians in suits with good speeches.
  
  
  SAD!
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  annmcenery at 05/22/2008 3:15:08 PM
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  The photograph tells it all. Just looking at them together, embracing ideologies, makes me proud. Edwards wouldn't accept the vice presidency, again, but he will be an invaluable member of the Obama team, perhaps as attorney general. In many ways, his smile and mannerisms bring back images of Bobby Kennedy -- his dreams and the legacy he left with those of us old enough to remember. We all need to make sure this divisive primary does not deprive us of the White House. Imagine Barack Obama as President: SWEET!
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  prefacedey at 05/21/2008 2:35:48 PM
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  I was an Edwards supporter from the start. I reasoned my way to Barack. I think that Edwards should be the VP or AG otherwise we are wasting a very valuable resource in this "American struggle".
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  mruth at 05/16/2008 3:42:21 PM
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  Good article. I supported John Edwards because he was the only candidate to even dare mention poor people and poverty in America, both this election cycle and in 2004. When he dropped out, I moved over to Obama. It seems to me that Edwards's focus on poverty is one way of bridging the gap between Hillary's poor white wage-earner and Obama's AA demographic, especially poor women of all ethnicities.
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  AfiScruggs at 05/15/2008 8:15:47 PM
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  Thanks Alice. Edwards was my first choice for precisely the reason you mentioned. I was impressed that he, of all the Democratic candidates, addressed the predatory lending debacle by talking to its victims here in Cleveland. Edwards made his poverty tour in June, 2007 - almost a year before the Ohio primary.
  I hope the issue of poverty is confronted and remedies become part of the platform for both political parties.
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  toot119 at 05/15/2008 7:59:33 PM
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  How is he the ace in hole when less than 3 months ago he was calling him the scum of the earth. Obama nor Edwards are thinking about the poor, uneducated or the military man. They have no plan and it is the same old rhetoric that he been talking about last year!!
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  toot119 at 05/15/2008 7:57:13 PM
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  How are they going to help us? This is all about Obama and Edwards. Edwards just a few months ago was calling Obama scum now he endorses him. All of the same rhetoric over and over.
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  cdelliott9 at 05/15/2008 5:44:42 PM
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  Journalism 101 - Know the facts...While Senator Edwards has been a strong anti-poverty spokesperson...Senator Obama has been crafting legislation to do something about it worldwide... http://www.borgenproject.org/globalpovertyact.html
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    bonnieb at 05/16/2008 7:47:15 PM
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    Posted on Tue, May. 13, 2008
    
    
    John Edwards says fighting poverty is ???moral cause???
    By Thomas Fitzgerald
    
    INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
    
    Former Sen. John Edwards ended his Democratic presidential campaign nearly four months ago, but he was back on the stump today in the Tioga section of North Philadelphia, calling poverty "a moral cause facing every single one of us" in the United States.
    "What we do for each other says something about who we are," Edwards said, speaking at the Thankful Baptist Church as he kicked off Half in Ten, a new effort to reduce the poverty rate by 50 percent during the next decade. "It says something about what our character is . . . the kind of country we want to live in."
    
    The campaign is a joint project of the Center for American Progress Foundation; ACORN, which organizes activists in low-income communities; the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Coalition on Human Needs. Its aim is to advocate federal and state policies that will help people get out of poverty, including expansion of earned-income tax credits and increases in the minimum wage.
    
    Edwards, former North Carolina senator who was the Democrats' nominee for vice president in 2004, made poverty a central theme of his 2008 campaign for president, which he suspended Jan. 30 after lagging in the early primaries.
    
    He has not endorsed either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton in their bid for the Democratic nomination. There was no chance today for him to clarify ambiguous remarks he made about his preference because Edwards declined to speak with reporters after the event.
    
    He said he has had "positive conversations" with all three of the remaining contenders, including the presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, about the importance of tackling poverty. He also told the audience, "I wish I was one of them" ??? referring to the presidential finalists.