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Monday, November 5, 2007 Hillary and Edwards In Hypocritical Battle Over Driver's Licenses For Illegals John Edwards has recently went on the attack via debates and campaign adds about Hillary Clinton's flip flopping on various issues. One of his favorite areas to pound Hillary has been her now infamous stance on offering driver's license to illegal aliens. "I heard her say two different things. I don't know what she's calling for. I mean she said the first time she was asked she said one thi...
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FEC fines Fieger firm over campaign donations
Original at news.yahoo.com
• Thu, Nov 19
A Michigan law firm has agreed to pay a $131,000 fine to resolve an investigation into donations to former Sen. John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign.
Quick Fact: On Oprah , Palin repeats falsehood that media didn't criticize "other candidates" over fashion
Original at Media Matters for America
• Mon, Nov 16
By J.H. During an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Palin trumpeted the false claim from her memoir, Going Rogue, that criticism over reports that the Republican National Committee spent $150,000 to clothe and accessorize Palin and her family represented a "double standard," because "it...
Rogue Fact: Palin suggests "no other candidate" subjected to scrutiny "about their hair, makeup, or clothes"
Original at Media Matters for America
• Sat, Nov 14
By E.H.H. Then, there was Democrat John Edwards' $400 hair cuts in 2007 and Republican McCain's $520 black leather Ferragamo shoes this year. A review of similar records for the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee turned up no similar spending.
The Main Chance
Original at Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
• Sat, Nov 14
By Josh Marshall Why did Ken Starr, Ed Meese and right-wing legal organization, The American Civil Rights Union come to the defense of a John Edwards backer charged with reimbursing employees who donated to the Edwards campaign?... Why did Ken Starr, Ed Meese and right-wing legal organization, The Americ...
Obama Chicago Mud Politics On Veterans DayOriginal at Hillary Is 44
• Wed, Nov 11
By Staff Big Media failed to vet Obama and continues to protect and defend Obama – which hurts America. As Americans discover more about Obama, his inexperience and thuggery, more Americans will turn on Obama. Big Media failed Americans. We must not fail ourselves.
Hindery Report on Effective Unemployment: 19.2%
Original at The Washington Note
• Fri, Nov 6
Each month when I get the official unemployment figures from the US government, I quickly search in my inbox for a note from former cable network CEO and senior economic adviser in the John Edwards and Barack Obama campaigns Leo Hindery who sends me the "effective unemployment" figures t...
Greg Mitchell: Obama Won Last Year Only Because Stephen Colbert Dropped Out!
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Nov 3
By Greg Mitchell Questions quickly rose about his ballot status in South Carolina but the situation there appeared murky. Stewart signed a contract extension for his Daily Show, explaining, "I love doing this show... I look forward to using this extension to having great fun at President Colbert's expense....
The World Series: The Hillary Clinton Coalition Versus The Barack Obama Coalition, Part II
Original at Hillary Is 44
• Tue, Nov 3
By Staff For Democrats, the immediate peril of failing to hang on to some of these swing voters could play out Tuesday in the governor’s race in Virginia, a state Mr. Obama wrested away from Republicans last year, but where the Democratic candidate for governor has struggled to reprise Mr. Obama’s e...
Elizabeth Edwards: Marriage is a 'great love story'
Original at CNN Political Ticker
• Mon, Oct 26
John and Elizabeth Edwards during the 2008 presidential campaign.(CNN) -- Despite John Edwards' extramarital affair that rocked his marriage, his wife described their union as a "love story," albeit an unconventional one. Elizabeth Edwards told WJLA-TV in Washington late last week s...
John Edwards Is Not Fine In The Carolinas
Original at Jezebel
• Mon, Oct 12
By LatoyaPeterson The feelings of betrayal are particularly strong here in Chapel Hill, the famously liberal college town where the family moved after Edwards left the Senate in 2005. In some quarters, John and Elizabeth are both being blamed for pressing ahead with his presidential run despite their sha...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Original at Daily Kos
• Thu, Sep 24
By BarbinMD Daniel Henninger tosses out a few insults, implies that people really don't want health care reform, and fears that President Obama will make partisanship worse. Funny. Suzanne Fields is astonished that President Obama is abandoning a plan that George W. Bush worked so hard on.
Typical Situation In These Typical John Edwards Times
Original at Jezebel
• Sun, Sep 20
By hortense Believe this as much as you believe what your best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard about Ferris, but apparently John Edwards once told Rielle Hunter he would marry her in a rooftop ceremony...accompanied by the Dave Matthews Band. [MSNBC]
John R. Bohrer: The GOP Is Too Crazy To Be Racist
Original at Huffington Post
• Wed, Sep 16
By John R. Bohrer Scores of Republican activists would've accused President Hillary Clinton of setting up "death panels." Rallies would've been filled with Hitler mustaches painted on the portrait of President John Edwards. A grandstanding GOP congressman would've shouted "You lie!" at President Bi...
Lee Stranahan: Elizabeth Edwards: Please Don't Adovacate Health Reform Until You Stop Lying About John
Original at Huffington Post
• Thu, Aug 20
By Lee Stranahan Almost exactly a year ago, I laid out where the Edwards story was headed including the fact that Rielle Hunter's baby's father is John Edwards. In past couple of weeks, The National Enquirer started reporting that DNA tests had taken place, Edwards is the father and Hunter is looking for a h...
Rielle Hunter, Baby Moving To Be Near John Edwards?
Original at Jezebel
• Wed, Aug 19
By Anna N. The National Enquirer reports that John Edwards is moving Rielle Hunter and baby Frances near his North Carolina mansion so he can help raise the child. Elizabeth Edwards supposedly "exploded in a rage" when she found out. [National Enquirer]
Paul Krassner: Should Comedy Be Politically Correct?
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Jun 16
By Paul Krassner Arnold Schwarzennegger announced his candidacy for governor on the Tonight Show. John Edwards announced his candidacy for president on The Daily Show. And now Sarah... Arnold Schwarzennegger announced his candidacy for governor on the Tonight Show. John Edwards announced his candidacy f...
Lee Stranahan: Jon & Kate And John & Elizabeth And How We Make Them Possible
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, May 25
By Lee Stranahan John and Elizabeth Edwards had the high honor of gracing the front cover of the National Enquirer with reality show stars Jon and Kate Gosselin... John and Elizabeth Edwards had the high honor of gracing the front cover of the National Enquirer with reality show stars Jon and Kate Gosselin re...
Opinion: The Triumph of the Independents Confirmed
Original at Liberal Values
• Thu, May 21
By Ron Chusid But independents continue to be much closer to Democrats than to Republicans with respect to social values, religiosity and beliefs about national security. Indices measuring the relative position of Republicans, Democrats and independents in these three areas show that the views o...
Opinion: Carol Felsenthal: Should Hillary Blame Elizabeth Edwards for Dashing Her White House Dream?; Oh, and "My Dog's Smarter Than Yours"
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, May 12
By Carol Felsenthal Would Hillary, who split the vote with Edwards in the Iowa caucuses on Janaury 3, 2008 -- the first contest of the long race -- have won Iowa had Edwards dropped out? Edwards barely grabbed second place there. (Obama had 37.6 percent of the delegates; Edwards, 29.9; and Hillary, 29.5.)
HuffPo Blogger Gives Detailed Financial Advice to John Edwards' MistressOriginal at NewsBusters.org
• Thu, May 7
By P.J. Gladnick Maury Povich has already offered to pay for the DNA paternity testing. And I'm sure Maury would also kick in some big bucks for John Edwards and former mistress to appear on his show. However, I don't think John will be performing the "I'm Not the Daddy" dance.
2008 in review: The biggest blunders and juiciest scandals
Original at Campaign Diaries
• Fri, Jan 2
By Taniel 4. Obama’s “bitter” Americans 6. The Clintons’ race gaffes: Bill compares Obama to Jesse Jackson; Hillary describes Obama’s weak support among “hard-working Americans, white Americans” 9. Elizabeth Dole airs the Godless Americans ads — 5. John Edwards’s mistress
Sad John Edwards Not Picked for Team of Rivals [Mistakes]
Original at Gawker
• Thu, Dec 4
By Pareene A feisty young blogger named Matt points out that John Edwards has not yet been given a job in the Obama administration. Shocking! As Matt points out, in his link, Edwards totally endorsed Obama last May, four months after he dropped out of the race and a mere week after Tim Russert famously d...
Podcast: NYT: Daughter's Pregnancy Fair Game, Asks How Palin Can 'Juggle Those Responsibilities'
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Tue, Sep 2
By Clay Waters I also think that it raises questions about John McCain's qualities as a chief executive, his decision-making. The vice-presidential pick is a very important decision for any candidate. It's the first real decision that the candidate makes, and it gives insight into how that candidate w...
Lee Stranahan: Where The John Edwards Scandal Is Headed
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Aug 18
By Lee Stranahan As we head into the the Democratic convention, the Edwards scandal isn't over. It's really just beginning. Don't blame the media, blame John Edwards. Cynicism is exactly what Republicans want when their opponent's message is 'hope'.
Music and Topics from this week's First Friday Podcast
Original at firstfriday (WordPress)
• Mon, Aug 18
By firstfriday John Edwards and his "little problem." Admits affair, denies paternity, no one believes him. Tries to deny he slept with her while her cancer was in remission, like that somehow makes it better. John Edwards takes the lead in the "Throwing a staff member under the bus" contest for Democrat...
Emily Pease: Some Words for John Edwards
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Aug 11
By Emily Pease During one of the many discussions I heard on TV, Andrea Mitchell expressed her dismay about the affair. First, it was Elizabeth she was thinking of. But then it was all the campaign staffers, many of them young, who believed in Edwards the candidate. Then it was the Democratic Party. And final...
Opinion: CNN's Yellin: Edwards Story Unimportant -- He Wasn't a Contender
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Sun, Aug 10
By Noel Sheppard KURTZ: Wait a minute. I'm not buying that. So what? Exactly, especially since the Enquirer broke this story last October WELL before the Iowa caucuses. As such, claiming that you ignored this story because Edwards wasn't a top contender is either the height of ignorance, or the height of gal...
John Edwards, Narcissus and the Illusions of Life
Original at shoreacres (WordPress)
• Sun, Aug 10
By shoreacres Edwards' own words tell the tale. In a March 27 interview with Katie Couric, he said, "I think every single candidate for president, Republican and Democratic have lives, personal lives, that indicate something about what kind of human being they are. And I think it is a fair evaluation fo...
Cenk Uygur: How is John McCain's Affair Different than John Edwards'?
Original at Huffington Post
• Fri, Aug 8
By Cenk Uygur So, I want every pundit who condemns John Edwards today to tell me what the difference between him and McCain is and why John McCain shouldn't also be run out of politics for his adulterous affairs and what he did to his first wife. More on John Edwards
Opinion: Meet Super Villain, John Edwards
Original at timm84 (WordPress)
• Fri, Aug 8
By Tim Weaver I supported John Edwards during his candidacy for the Democratic nomination. He was the first candidate that I endorsed for the Democrats, alongside Ron Paul. I felt that Edwards was by far the most progressive mainstream candidate on the ballot, and that his history of successfully suin...
Opinion: NYT Invites John 'Two Americas' Edwards to Take a Bow in Life Expectancy Story
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Mon, Apr 28
By Clay Waters In a silly political stunt, Sack claimed the findings validated former Democratic presidential candidate (and wealthy trial lawyer) John Edwards' left-wing ranting about "two Americas," even bringing in the failed candidate to explain how he was right all along.
Weekend in Review: Clinton Stays, Troopergate Returns
Original at Observer.com
• Sun, Mar 30
By Katharine Jose In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Peggy Noonan accuses Clinton of "cognitive dissonance." The Washington Post editorial board doesn't think Clinton should go. John Kerry echoes Howard Dean's call to have the Democratic nomination wrapped up by July 1.
Podcast: Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence" -
Original at Cato Institute
• Mon, Mar 17
In 1974, Richard Nixon promoted the possibility of U.S. energy independence in six years. In 1975, Gerald Ford promised it in ten. And in 2007, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, John Edwards and John McCain all trumpeted energy independence as an essential priorit...
Barack Obama Focused on Issues not Color of skin.
Original at my.barackobama.com
• Thu, Mar 6
By Larry Jackson Clinton leads Obama in polls of black voters. Recent ABC News/Washington Post polling, for instance, found that 60% of black, Democratic-leaning voters supported Clinton, and 20% backed Obama. Brunson, president of the College Democrats chapter at Howard University in Washington, s...
Opinion: Why I support John Edwards: Vision and Hope
Original at its.caltech.edu
• Thu, Feb 21
By Asa I've had the privilege to see him speak about poverty (at a conference on the issue) and I know that he has both committed himself to taking action to fight poverty, and immersed himself in the policy options available. I trust him to devote the same intellect and energy to the rest of his vis...
Opinion: FNC Notes AP Hails Edwards: ‘Scrappy Underdog...Steered Rivals to Progressive Ideals'
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Thu, Jan 31
By Brent Baker Pickler suggested Edwards’ far-left platform had become mainstream and accepted, crediting Edwards with promoting “themes” that were “eventually adopted by the other Democratic presidential candidates -- and even a Republican, Mitt Romney.” But Pickler only named one “theme” tha...
Podcast: David Letterman, John Edwards Bash Fox's O'ReillyOriginal at NewsBusters.org
• Wed, Jan 23
By Ken Shepherd The exchange came in a jovial January 22 interview in which Edwards joked about having Letterman as his running mate, or at the very least as a celebrity endorser a la Oprah Winfrey. Former Sen. JOHN EDWARDS (D-N.C.): Yeah, I've noticed the same thing. EDWARDS: Most of what he says is crap.
Opinion: On Electability
Original at The Left Coaster
• Tue, Jan 22
By Turkana According to the latest polls, each of the Democratic candidates for president leads each of the Republican candidates, except for one. John McCain currently averages four points ahead of Hillary Clinton, and a point and change ahead of Barack Obama and John Edwards. Given the margins of...
Reviews Are In: Edwards Hits The Jackpot
Original at John Edwards for President
• Tue, Jan 15
How many of you came in supporting Senator Edwards?" [About 3 people raise hand] On issue after issue, we're going to show this to you tomorrow night, his language actually scored better than Senator Clinton and Senator Obama." [Fox News, 1/15/08]
Podcast: To Snow's Astonishment, Maher Suggests GOP Stole NH for Hillary
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Fri, Jan 11
By Brent Baker Insisting he's “not a conspiracy theorist,” Bill Maher, on the Friday night season debut of his HBO show, suggested that because Republicans prefer to run against Hillary Clinton than Barack Obama they engineered her victory in New Hampshire's Democratic primary. Later on Real Time wi...
Opinion: At Town Hall Meetings In Barnwell And Aiken, Edwards Introduces Plan To End Poverty In South Carolina Within A Generation
Original at John Edwards for President
• Fri, Jan 11
Please see the "Ending Poverty in South Carolina Within a Generation" policy paper included below for more information on Edwards' plan to create a Working Society and end poverty in America.Ending Poverty In South Carolina Within A Generation
Podcast: A Song for Change for a Campaign for ChangeOriginal at John Edwards '08
• Sat, Dec 8
By norcal girl So now I give you a song that I think works well with this campaign. If Hillary Clinton has someone choose hers, then I hope John Edwards likes this one. Watch the video before reading the lyrics, which I included if you decided to continue reading. 8 Comments | Add Yours | Continue Reading »
Opinion: John Edwards Announces Bold Policy To Prevent Health Insurance Company Abuses And Protect American Families
Original at John Edwards for President
• Thu, Dec 6
Manchester, NH – As part of "Building a Better America Week," John Edwards announced today a bold policy to improve the quality of health care in America by taking on health insurance companies and preventing the abuses and gaps in health coverage that put millions of Americans at risk.
Podcast: A Rocking Good Time in Iowa
Original at John Edwards '08
• Tue, Nov 20
By George Stern But even more importantly, both are John Edwards supporters! We didn't just throw these guitars behind anyone," Bonnie said at one point. "We thought very carefully about who we wanted to support and it's clear that on all the issues, John Edwards is leading."
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On The wRite Side: Hillary and Edwards In Hypocritical Battle Over Driver's Licenses For Illegals
Original at The wRite Side
• Mon, Nov 5
By WriteOn Monday, November 5, 2007 Hillary and Edwards In Hypocritical Battle Over Driver's Licenses For Illegals John Edwards has recently went on the attack via debates and campaign adds about Hillary Clinton's flip flopping on various issues. One of his favorite areas to pound Hillary has been her now infamous stance on offering driver's license to illegal aliens. "I heard her say two different things. I don't know what she's calling for. I mean she said the first time she was asked she said one thing and then when Senator Dodd said something, she said something different. That's what I heard," Edwards said at a recent debate. In a recent campaign video it was not necessary for him to say a single word. The inclusion of various speech clips from Hillary... [read the full post]
Podcast: Chris Matthews Agrees 'With the Sentiment' of Disruptive Protestor
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Wed, Oct 31
By Justin McCarthy It is no secret that Chris Matthews is a shill for the Democrats and adamantly opposed to the Iraq War. The former Democratic staffer, who the previous night wrote a speech for Obama attacking Hillary Clinton from the left, endorsed "the sentiment" of a disruptive protestor.
Podcast: Ann Coulter's wish for Edwards' death helps him raise cash
Original at AZ Central.com
• Thu, Jun 28
WASHINGTON Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Wednesday encouraged his supporters to donate to his campaign in response to hateful comments from conservative author Ann Coulter.
Podcast: Campaign 2008 Series: John Edwards (Audio)
Original at Council on Foreign Relations
• Wed, May 23
By national@cfr.org (Council on Foreign Relations) May 23, 2007 Listen to Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator John Edwards discuss his foreign policy agenda as part of the Council's Campaign 2008 Series.
Podcast: Video: Edwards Speaks To Georgia Faithful
Original at WXIA-TV
• Thu, May 17
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards was the keynote speaker at the state Democratic party\'s annual Jefferson-Jackson fundraiser.
Podcast: Edwards campaign picks up tab for high-priced haircuts
Original at AZ Central.com
• Wed, Apr 18
WASHINGTON Looking pretty is costing John Edwards presidential campaign a lot of pennies.