Hillary offers "CZAR" position to EDWARDS???

[polichick]

Today on the stump she talked about a cabinet level job to deal with poverty ~ Chrystia Freeland, a guest on msnbc's Race to the WH, says it was a job offer.

WOW!

[anonymous171]

1. Obama's going to have to do something similiar.

[polichick]

2. I'd like Gore to have a cabinet level position on global warming.

[joshcryer]

16. Gore will not take it. He said the only position for public office he'd seek is POTUS.

He might on a more advisory level but not as the head of something.

[polichick]

24. I thought he meant that he wouldn't run for office...

But if a cabinet level spot were offered that gave him the opportunity to really advance his cause, I think he'd consider it.

[SwampG8r]

59. i bet

he might give a thought to head of EPA

[PoliticalAmazon]

38. Gore as Secretary of the Interior would be so good for America. n/t

[DemVet]

40. Director of...

Toxic Butt Vapor?

C'mon people, I'm just joking. :)

[Boz]

3. Obama already had a cabinet level position in his blueprint, I expect this is a way to put pressure

On Edwards to choose, kind of a dirty way to put it out there if you ask me.

[polichick]

5. Really, he has such a position on poverty? I missed that.

[City Lights]

8. Your post count is zero. How is that possible?

Odd.

[joshcryer]

21. I think the site is broken.

But it does illustrate the quality of said posts.

[JimGinPA]

23. It's A Ghost!

:scared:

[LaurenG]

33. I think I'd complain to management.

:rofl:Wow even with your first post you still get a 0. :wow:

[Boz]

44. Not my first post.. And yes I seem to be a ghost in the machine.

I do think it has made for some interesting insight into DU, in a weird way.

People are so used to everything being the same they hiccup when something is different and that makes for some interesting stereotype observations.

In addition as many people have told me they obviously make a class judgment based on count number, Im finding it very interesting not being in the black or white, low posts to the 1000+ posts, it makes the automatic judgment of post class unusable.

It is also very telling most then go to the negative judgment of the 0 and says so much about human nature, that which they do not know or understand they poke and cajole for being different.

In some ways it is interesting being able to see it in action.

[LaurenG]

45. It's interesting to see that people who don't know each other automatically

"assume" that others are being critical. I have never seen that happen before. You may have had several thousand posts but your's said 0 thus it was funny. Try not to take all of this so seriously.

I thought it was funny and I was serious about contacting management, but I see it's been handled.

Welcome to DU

[Boz]

46. Sorry that wasn't diected at you and

it seems the computer has taken away some of the academic nature of my rambling.

I was actually looking at it because a lot of people had made comments about it, it really was interesting to see it in action.

And it wasn't meant to assume you were negative or critical, it was a generalization I was talking about, I thought it was funny too.

If I had a choice I think I kind of would like it 0 anyways because it was unique

Thanks for the welcome.

Ill still be hiding over here:yoiks:

B-)

[LaurenG]

49. No problem

I wish I had a screen shot of it though. It's sort of like those "mis-minted" coins that are worth tons of $.

:hi:

[SwampG8r]

61. yup

i have a low count and my posts basically get ignored but i got my say and thats what i was after

[LaurenG]

62. Take heart

there are some incredible people here. You may not get a lot of feedback but most of us get ignored, or at least it feels that way. Welcome to DU in case no one has welcomed you yet.

[sniffa]

37. Welcome to DU Mr. Zero Posts

:D

[City Lights]

50. Your post counter is working now!

Congrats! You're a *real* DUer now! :hi: Welcome, BTW. :-)

[Boz]

51. Thanks for the welcome, I kinda liked it broke GRIN, made me unique

Kind of felt like a celebrity or enemy combatant not sure which.

Ill be hiding over here:yoiks:

:-)

[merh]

47. Go check out youtube and watch what he has to say about hillary

I'm not sure he would take the bait.

There would have to be a whole lot more than that (plus she would have to have a shot at winning) for him to sign on, imho. Remember, she wasn't that supportive of him in 2004.

[mysistagirl]

58. Obama has already beat Hellary to the punch on this !

This is nothing more than ANOTHER attempt by Hellery to copy Barack Obama. She has been a johnny come lately to almost every position which Obama was first on.

Barack Obama has had a plan for a cabinet level department on poverty since the beginning of his campaign. Even Edwards did not have such a thing, and certainly Hellery didn't. This position has been on Obama's website in his blueprint for change since day one of this campaign. Leave it to Hellery to co-opt from someone else and try to claim it as her own idea.

Anywho, back in December there was an extensive comparison of Obama, Hellery, and Edward's economic and poverty plans, and Obama got the highest marks with specific mention of his initiative to establish this cabinet level department on poverty. here is the link and an excerpt:

http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5190

Of the three Democratic frontrunners, Obama’s is the only site providing specific attention to urban poverty. A seven page document posted on the website entitled “Changing the Odds for Urban America,” states that Obama would take “addressing urban America seriously” and would create a White House Office on Urban Policy. While not a blueprint, the document does address key urban issues including addressing the need for programs to “make jobs pay ” and to expand efforts to provide childcare, public transit, housing and urban reinvestment.

Does this woman have even ONE decent original idea? sheesh!

[irish.lambchop]

4. Am watching the same show.

It connects, though I'd REALLY like to see John Edwards as U.S. Attorney General and straighten out that department which I think is much worse than we are hearing about right now.

[polichick]

I would have thought AG for Edwards too - interesting development.

[parasim]

12. Yeah, no kidding... they already have the logo ready for that...

hehe

[polichick]

19. Nice design too! :)

[parasim]

55. Yeah, it's funny though...

Every time I see ads for AG Edwards, I think of Edwards as Attorney General... he he..

[parasim]

13. dupe post

[irish.lambchop]

18. This entire Primary season has been one

interesting development after another - sort of like a high-stakes soap opera on steroids! I try to view it dispassionately and when I am successful, it is better than a box-office hit suspense movie.

[polichick]

22. "high-stakes soap opera on steroids"

Lol - no wonder it's so addicting!

[Zachstar]

6. I hate to say it but this was a bad idea.

It will be viewed right off the bat as Job 4 endorsement.

[Texas Hill Country]

7. nice move.

[BootinUp]

9. I like it. nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. Excellent. n/t

[panader0]

11. This is a move straight out of MLK's son this morning

I heard MLK's son this morning ask for this position. To listen to David Gregory on MSNBC you would think, that despite the Clinton's 109 million dollar income (still not sure from what) that they have their hand on the pulse of poverty more tha Obama who worked with the poor in Chicago. While I completely agree that poverty is a major issue (I'm under the poverty line) I'm not so sure that Hillary is the candidate to address it. I'm sure that John Edwards is smart enough to see through Hill's posturing.

[Metric System]

29. You do realize that Edwards is rich, right? And does Kerry and Kennedy's wealth exclude them from

caring about poverty.

[anamandujano]

63. Obama did not "work with the poor," he lobbed contracts to slumlords

to screw the poor, and screw them they did. Ref. Rezko.

[Hart2008]

14. This from a couple that admits to making $109 million and only donated $10.2 million to charities

Really sad.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[Texas Hill Country]

17. they paid $31 million IN TAXES!!!!!!

[Hart2008]

25. And that makes them sensitive to the needs of ordinary working Americans?

If they had given more to charity, they would have paid less in taxes.

[Texas Hill Country]

27. holy shit... uhhhh, wait, nevermind... not worth trying to get thru to you.

[Hart2008]

32. The Clintons: the classic baby boomer sell outs to the establishment.

Unless of course their youthful idealism was nothing more than a charade for their contemporaries.

[anamandujano]

64. That always happens when you end up as leader of the free world.

Frankly, I don't get it. :eyes:

[Hart2008]

65. Jimmy Carter never sold out, which is why he had to go, i.e., the October surprise.

The Clintons only really care about the Clintons.

Everything else is window dressing.

[Sparkly]

15. That's EXACTLY what I thought when I heard it. nt

[Lerkfish]

20. Quid Pro Quo for an endorsement

I'm sure Richardson can fill Edwards in on what happens if you go the other way.

[bhikkhu]

28. The Great Edwards Bidding War begins in earnest

[Auntie Bush]

26. That's a perfect job or Edwards!

I hope he gets the chance to accept it.

[noel711]

30. "CZAR?" I don't see Edwards as anyone's CZAR...

That term bespeaks a hierarchy,
not John's thing.

I'd be offended... if I felt I was being
'bought off' by a high and mighty title..

[anonymous171]

31. I wanted Edwards to get the AG spot on either campaign.

[The River]

36. My Wish Exactly

Let him use his legal talents to prosecute
corporate crime. He can move on to SCOTUS in time.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

34. EXCELLENT IDEA....YAY HILLARY!

[IndianaGreen]

57. Like the War on Drugs Czar idea, and the GWOT Czar idea.

Nothing but PR followed by a wasteful government program.

[Ichingcarpenter]

35. Energy Czar, Drug Czar, Economic Czar are right wing republican answers

to problems that they have never solved. I fricking hate that term Czar used
by our government in a Democratic nation.

I'm tired of Kings and emperors because that is what Czar means.

[Cali_Democrat]

39. Exactly!!

This Czar bullshit is just silly way of not addressing the real issues.

[anonymous171]

42. That's her plan.

It's pandering and baiting for a JE endorsement simultaneously.

[4themind]

41. Don't forget the "War Czar"

that we've heard little from since

[Cha]

53. I know it's stupid..

We don't need no stinking czars..we need someone who's going to help people by easing the poverty in the country.

This sounds like hilary's offering greenspan to be on a commission to "analyze ways to resolve the mortage crisis"..as in pandering not that John Edwards couldn't handle our poverty issue.

"OK, this is pretty dumb. Hillary Clinton wants a high-level commission to analyze ways to resolve the mortgage crisis -- including Alan Greenspan.

Yes, I know people still listen when Greenspan speaks -- and John McCain once joked about taking Greenspan's advice even if he's dead. But for those in the know, AG is a key villain in the whole affair.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/26/paul-krugman-slamshill_n_93522.html

[bhikkhu]

60. Czar derives from "Caesar"...

http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Tsar_-_Etymology_and_spelling/id/2046045


"Tsar - Etymology and spelling

The word tsar is derived from the Latin title Caesar by way of the Old Slavonic tsesar (цесарь). The word is cognate with German Kaiser, Gothic káisar, Dutch keizer, Danish kejser, Swedish kejsare, and Norwegian keiser".

I always thought it was a stupid notion to use the word here as a title.

[Bigleaf]

43. Gee. I wonder what prompted this, Hillary?

:eyes:


I got it. You need to win North Carolina and need an endorsement from John Edwards to make that even remotely possible. That's okay. No one will ever suspect this is the true reason you'd create this position.

[Lerkfish]

52. ironically, since she's going to lose, she can't create the position anyways

:shrug:

[rodeodance]

48. Wise move for the country. Good on hillary

[greguganus]

54. Cool!! More millions in Edwards' pockets for studying the poor! n/t

[readmoreoften]

56. Cool. He'll be like a Russian King?

:shrug: