Reply #48: IT IS SOMEHOW STRANGE THAT YOU CALL YOURSELF TOM JOAD

[Radicalman]

I hate to hoist you up by your own petard, but the person you identify with, Tom Joad, is a main character in John Steinbeck's, THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Tom is a symbol of the poor and oppressed. I suppose this is why you chose his name, because you are against the oppression of the poor and neglected. Your unrestrained attacks on John Edwards are ironic, because Edwards who worked along side his father in a textile mill and came from meager circumstances, put himself through college, the first one in his family to do go to a college. None in the democratic party have spoken up for the poor since Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Clinton screwed them over. The needs of the poor are one of the core issues for John Edwards. No one, no one, is on the side of the poor like John Edwards. He is the 2006 champion of the Tom Joads of America.

As far as Iraq is concerned his position is quite clear: AP - The former U.S. Sen. from North Carolina told reporters America should "make it clear (to Iraqis) we are leaving, and the best way is to start leaving. We should take 40,000 combat troops out now."
Edwards, who has said he regretted his vote as a U.S. senator authorizing President Bush to declare war in Iraq, said he would ask the country's military leaders for a strategy "to have the (rest of the) troops out in roughly 12 to 18 months."
"There is no chance other countries in the world will help Iraq as long as we are an occupying force," he said.

He's apologized for initially supporting the war. He's got a solid anti-war stance and a position that puts most democrats in Congress to shame. What is it you want from him. Hillary Clinton won't even admit she's made a mistake you're not going to vote for her. Who will you vote for, that loser Dennis Kucinich in his quixotic quest for the White House?

The democrats need to nominate a winner. And that man is John Edwards.