Reply #55: Biden's promotion of the bankruptcy bill was also not what I'd call progressive either...q

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The other two candidates aren't really progressive either when it gets down the real fundamental issues that face us.

We can have a "scorecard" with a huge number of votes where they can "ramp up" their progressive "rating", but the bottom line is that THE most important issue to tackle for progressives are those that are at the core of corporate control of our government (things like public campaign financing, stopping the war, pursuing impeachment and doing a purge of those who serve "the Mob" the most, and restoring the balance of our nations' wealth, which is hitting numbers close to those that would lead us into another Republican Depression.

Edwards is talking about those issues, and is putting himself on the hook for those, and therefore giving those of us a voice to say that THAT's what we want to vote for.

All of this "pragmatic" voting to vote for someone like Hillary, who hangs out with Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the corporate crowd, and rationalizing such a choice through only something like "she'd be better than a Republican", when that could be said about any of the other Democrats running is pretty lame.

We need someone at the top which will lead us on issues that COUNT and will make a difference! FDR Style! I think Edwards is the only one that comes close to that kind of person, if he's a man of his word, and I haven't seen evidence that he hasn't been honest with us now, even if he's changed on the support of many issues, etc. If he isn't, we can all claim through our votes for him that America is looking for that sort of person to put pressure on the media and other politicians to doing more what we want later.

I honestly believe that people can learn and change for the better. If I didn't, I wouldn't have been an Al Gore fan earlier either.