Edwards spent several million dollars to help poor, underprivileged kids

[jackson_dem]

The swiftboats have entered the waters in Missouri where a candidate who allegedly is "done" is being attacked in a piece which essentially calls him a fraud because he is rich and an advocate for working folk. Been there, done that. :boring: Here was an important part of the article that exposed the falseness of the charges of hypocrisy. Edwards practices what he preaches about helping folks out. If he were a fraud he would never have spent millions to do this. How many candidates have spent such a big part of their own wealth to help the poor?

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Still, before entering politics, he was involved in Urban Ministries, a local program that helps the poor. He and his wife of 30 years, Elizabeth, have also spent several million dollars creating two after-school learning labs primarily to serve underprivileged children at two North Carolina high schools.

I refuse to link to the BS article that was published before. It is allegedly a "candidate profile."

[jackson_dem]

1. This tells you how bad the article was

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Your hit piece is duly noted. If the fact that he got rich is his worse vice; we should all be so lucky.

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What a stupid premise for an article. Would you write such an article on Ted Kennedy? Or on any past president who was wealthy? The idea that one has to live like Mother Teresa to work on poverty or to help the middle class is ridiculous.

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Hey America, "Wake Up and Smell the Truth". We should be happy to have a Champion to Fight for the less than fortunate folks and stand up against the overwhelming powerful intrests that are ruining our country.Does anyone really belive that HRC or BHO will change Washington much less America? John Edwards has my vote.

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Your article is biased and you obviously have not accurately reviewed John Edwards' legal career. If you read his book, Four Trials, you will have a better idea of where his ideals lie. He took cases that other lawyers thought were hopeless. As a result of the cases he took, policies were adopted that made hospitals safer, that tok defective products off the market. His entire career was aimed at getting justice for everyday people instead of enriching corporations. His conduct throughout his legal career was totally ethical and every penny he made was earned honestly.

You might point out that Hillary Clinton became a multimillionaire by representing Walmart, a corporation that routinely violates the rights of American workers and that sells cheap goods made by child labor and Tibetan and prison slave labor in China.

You might point out that Barack Obama is also a millionaire lawyer and dig into some of the less than upright people and corporations that he represented.

[NastyRiffraff]

2. Shades of FDR "betraying his class"

That's the mindset of people who write articles like this. They can't understand why someone who is wealthy could possibly want to help the poor. FDR was not only rich, he was, unlike Edwards, born into a powerful, wealthy family. And he was villified for his social programs.

[MagickMuffin]

3. It really shows the SAD state of affairs, when the most viable candidate gets NO exposure

Just think if someone were to interview some of the kids and families John and Elizabeth have helped through their generous contributions.

In February 2005, Edwards headlined the "100 Club" Dinner, a major fundraiser for the New Hampshire Democratic Party. That same month, Edwards was appointed as director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for studying ways to move people out of poverty. That fall, Edwards toured ten major universities in order to promote "Opportunity Rocks!", a program aimed at getting youth involved to fight poverty.

[ursi]

4. the man is a hero!

[jackson_dem]

5. "his rhetoric doesn't match his actions"

[jackson_dem]

6. "What did Edwards do for poverty before running for president?"

[smokey nj]

7. Kick!!!!

[Triana]

8. No good deed goes unpunished ...

...with this band of cretins, does it?

I'll presume that the arsewipe who wrote that thing is a Huckabee jockstrap.

[Patchuli]

9. They are so very afraid of John Edwards

If he had the media attention the other two get, it would be a very different story right now!