Reply #15: Would you really call what she said

[waiting for hope]

a Right Wing talking point?

MoveOn.org should not have labeled Gen. David Petraeus "General Betray Us" in a controversial newspaper ad, Elizabeth Edwards said in Des Moines on Friday.

"Someone who's spent their life in the military doesn't deserve 'General Betray Us,' " said Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.

Elizabeth Edwards noted that her father was a career naval officer, and she said she respects military service.

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Elizabeth Edwards said the group could have made its point by using Petraeus' own previous words about purported good news in Iraq without insulting him personally.

She said she generally supports grass-roots organizations like MoveOn.org for giving average people a voice. "But I'm probably not going to agree with everything that any one group says," she said.

Her views on the ad were similar to those expressed Thursday by U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin. The Iowa Democrat said that the MoveOn.org ad "was a bad choice of words. I would have said, 'Petraeus, mistaken again,' " Harkin said. "But 'Betray Us?' That's going too far."

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070915/NEWS09/709150332/-1/ent05

Elizabeth Edwards has said many times that we should raise the level of political dialogue, not lower it. Calling Gen. Petraeus names doesn't further the cause. Case in point:

Elizabeth Edwards has a message for Ann Coulter: Stop the hate!

The wife of presidential candidate John Edwards called in to MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews on Tuesday to confront the conservative pundit – who was a guest on the program – on the personal attacks she has made on the Edwards family.

“It lowers our political dialogue precisely at the time that we need to raise it,” Edwards said. “So I want to use the opportunity … to ask her politely stop the personal attacks.”

She continued: "These young people behind you are the age of my children. You’re asking them to participate in a dialogue that’s based on hatefulness and ugliness instead of on the issues and I don’t think that’s serving or this country very well."

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http://usmagazine.com/ann_coulter_and_elizabeth_edwards

She saw the ad as a personal attack and I, for one, support her on this. Flame away, but if we are to stoop to RW talking points by name calling, then we are no better off.