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"Tue Apr 24, 2012 at 01:01 AM PDT.
Why I still support John Edwardsby mandyinseattleFollow .
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Fifty-six prosecutors investigated this case against Edwards and this is the best theyve got; Andrew Young as their star witness? What a waste of time and money, and hasnt he been punished enough? Political enemies never forget, and Edwardss biggest political problem was that he wasnt accepted by the Democratic establishment, because he wasnt going to toe that line. He was going to take the fight directly to drug and insurance companies, and he wasnt going to compromise time and again like Obama has."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/24/1085925/-Why-I-still-support-John-Edwards
To tell the truth,
I barely remembered John Edwards, except it occurred to me he was one in a long string of targets of the right wing hate machine.
I posted a thread making this observation, and it forced me to learn more about the Edwards campaign when I got the responses.
Turns out Edwards message of two Americas was the same as the 99% and the 1%, just worded differently. Edwards was the only canidate making economic disparity the main message of his campaign. He forced the Obama and Hillary campaign to the left.
Regardless of whether we can say how real his committment was, he was the only one pointing out the elephant in the room of economic inequality.
They came down on him so hard I found it difficult to find info on Edwards campaign message at all, only endless hit pieces even before the affair was revealed. On top of that piles of tabloid trash about the affair from "respectable" media outlets.
Even on here many had a hard time remembering what Edwards campaign stood for, that's how effective the destruction was. Myself included.
So out of three canidates, the canidate who gave even lip service to the 99% was utterly and completely destroyed. That's how terrified the 1% is of the Occupy message.
And I and others fell for it. Money, not integrity controls the M$M. If they keep beating their subliminal hypnotic drum long enough to the tune the masters call, even we start believing it.
And betray ourselves.