Reply #19: The key word is "rhetoric"

[GreenArrow]

that's all you get from Edwards. With Lieberman, I know where he stands; with Edwards, I don't get the sense that he has any stands, other than taking the most expedient, most self-serving, least off putting position possible. All his so called populist rhetoric is so much eyewash when measured against his stands on National "Defense", the drug war, and the death penalty, just to name a couple of issues.

Kucinich is the only candidate running that I trust even slightly, and I hold no illusions that he can win. But frankly, I'd vote for Joe Lieberman (even though I disagree with him intensely on many issues) before I'd vote for John Edwards. Lieberman is a snake, but he doesn't really hide it; he's out in the open, it's obvious he's a snake, and he can readily be avoided. Edwards is a snake in the grass, obscured, camouflaged and coiled to strike just when you're convinced he's little more than an innocuous lump of clay.