Is John Edwards Really a Fighter? He Needs to Prove It on Telecom Immunity

[Phred42]

I am an Edwards supporter and Contributor. this is one of the issues that Edwards should start going after.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/74672/

Edwards should challenge his rivals Obama and Clinton to go back to Washington, DC and fight against retroactive immunity for the telecoms.

Why do Senate Democrats keep electing fatally conflicted colleagues as their leaders? They didn't learn their lesson from red state compromiser Tom Daschle, who the Republicans could twist into a babbling pretzel anytime they wanted to by pitting the progressive national party against his... more conservative South Dakota constituents. So when the Republicans humiliated them by defeating their leader with a third rate hack, they promptly selected another vulnerable centrist would could be easily pulled in a dozen different directions by a dozen conflicting needs. To most Democrats-- the real ones in America, not the compromised careerists and bribe-besotted swine Inside the Beltway-- granting law breaking corporate executives (who helped Bush and Cheney shred the Constitution by spying on Americans) retroactive immunity is just plain wrong. (You can see how we got here here and here.) I think there are even a considerable number of Republican voters who would agree. I mean this crap is just plain unpatriotic and criminal-coddling.

This afternoon Jane put up a plea at FDL to the more progressive of the Democrats seeking the presidential nomination, John Edwards, to do what the compromised Insiders, Hillary and Obama, have refused to do: LEAD.

[rateyes]

1. Both Senators said they would support Dodd's filibuster, and then

when that day came were nowhere near the Senate floor. Pitiful.

[butterfly77]

2. No.

I believe the cons would eat him up

[navarth]

3. you might as well believe that of all 3 of them then

they ALL have negatives....but in my calculations Edwards has fewer, so he's the best of the 3 candidates the rulers will allow us to consider.

I'm not all that convinced the cons can do that much damage...all of their canidates are extremely vulnerable. Maybe I'm wrong, that's the way it looks to me right now.