Who is behind the Edwards "I'm sorry" negative ad?

[Herman Munster]

It looks professionally done. The message at the end makes it sound like they want Edwards supporters to support Obama.

The user only joined 9 hours ago and this is the only video they ever posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOZML6P0Vg&eurl=http://mydd.com/story/2007/12/14/182521/12

[surfermaw]

1. Who wins if it is believed..does that ans. your question

[Occam Bandage]

14. Everyone but Edwards.

[Adelante]

2. I thought it could be Kucinich supporters, too

Or Obama supporters. Or somebody wanting it to look that way. I saw it on MyDD.

[Czolgosz]

13. No, it's douchebags like those who repost it. Not Dennis.

[Adelante]

29. It makes the most sense

The final line is Dennis. I'm not saying he made it and is distributing it, but supporters of his could easily be. There is resentment that Edwards drained off some of Dennis's usual support. Dennis is angry. Nobody's gone negative against Edwards except Dennis. Nobody's called Edwards on his record like Dennis has, except one time Dodd.

[snowbear]

33. LOL.... CZ, best response yet !!!

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Now a question for Herman Munster:

You said... "The message at the end makes it sound like they want Edwards supporters to support Obama"

Which to me suggests that you (not us mind you, but YOU) think that Obama's team must be behind the clip.

So..... How did you come to that conclusion anyway?

Please explain to the class your reasoning, because I gotta tell you... I don't see where the video points to any campaign in particular.

Thank you for enlightening us.

[Herman Munster]

35. it's common sense

who has the most to gain by siphoning off edwards support in the iowa caucus. It's certainly not kucinich. He will not be viable in 99% of the precincts and his supporters will end up having to caucus with someone else or go home.

[snowbear]

38. Ah.. yeah..

.. sure thing.. whatever you say Munsty...



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[Clintonista2]

3. That video pretty much sums up JE

He should have used the "I'm sorry" song on that video as his official campaign theme song :rofl:

[Joe the Revelator]

4. Its a good ad, but what at the end makes you tie it to Obama?

If anything it looked like a Hillary plug. She's the one obcessed with
"expirence"

[Herman Munster]

8. well

the message at the end of the ad doesn't make sense if it was from a Hillary supporter. Since she like Edwards voted for the iraq war.

[Occam Bandage]

18. Maybe. Unless Clinton wants to bleed some of Edwards' support into a non-threatening

candidate like Kucinich. Or maybe it's some Republicans just stirring the pot for kicks. The problem with trying to find a culprit for a hit piece is that literally everyone has means, motive, and opportunity.

[Adelante]

9. The end is what made me think of Kucinich

About getting it right the first time. Clinton couldn't say that.

[Clintonista2]

17. Kuciniches debate line was "We need a president who gets it right the first time"

And what the hell is "expirence"?

[Joe the Revelator]

20. Look at Lirwin being the spelling police!

Super Cool Lirwin!

[Occam Bandage]

32. I don't know what "expirence" is. Who are the Kuciniches?

[frogmarch]

5. Some desperate asshole or

group of desperate assholes who are afraid of the fact that Edwards could win in Iowa...and beyond.

[Occam Bandage]

10. "Desperate. You keep using that word."

[frogmarch]

16. It's apt. So what's your problem? Are you desperate

because you can't think of anything else to post?

[Occam Bandage]

21. It seems I can add "desperate" to my list of

"words commonly seen on Democratic Underground that have apparently lost all traces of their original meaning."

[frogmarch]

26. Maybe to you "desperate" lacks meaning.

I used to think DU Biden supporters were pretty cool people. Now, not so much.

Biden remains my #2 choice despite supporters like you.

[Occam Bandage]

31. When you claim that the supporters of other candidates are "desperate"

because of your third-place candidate (running a distant third, mind you, everywhere but IA, and with absolutely no funding to compete through Super Tuesday), well...you have stripped the word of absolutely any meaning it might have had. "Desperation" is the state of being in a situation so grim that there is no hope remaining of success. Someone "desperate" is someone acting futilely, knowing they have no hope of success, yet still trying. Edwards having "a shot" at winning one state does not lead to "desperation" in anyone.

Tell me now, who is "desperate" on account of Edwards' stranglehold on the bronze?

[frogmarch]

34. If Edwards does win Iowa

he'll gain support, including, but not limited to, financial support. That could be very bad for the other candidates.

Whoever posted the anti-Edwards video probably realizes this. That's why they did it.

Now get the hell off my back.

[Tom Rinaldo]

43. You know who are desparate?

Housewives that's who. See,I managed to insert sexism into yet another DU thread. It's traditional this time of year.

[surfermaw]

24. YOU GOT IT

[FrenchieCat]

30. Is it possible that some people don't want Edwards as their nominee

and are not assholes.....or do y'all get to decide what's what?

Will it be Bushtype insults for all of us who don't want to kiss Edwards lovely behind?

can we at least wait till after the primaries before we decide to support him?

[FrenchieCat]

6. When such ads as this run constantly during Feb through Aug, when Edwards'

campaign has no money to refute this type of stuff.....we will know who put them out, and it won't make a bit of difference who it was, because the ad speaks for itself...and the only one appearing in the ad is John Edwards.

[Czolgosz]

12. Waaa!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

John Edwards doesn't have as much money as my favorite candidate! Waaaa!

[FrenchieCat]

15. That's what you will be doing while watching those ads air on the TV

from February till August 28th.

Hope you've got a box of tissue or two or three.

Personally, I find it sad as well....cause I'm fucking tired of losing.

[Occam Bandage]

7. Professionally done? You could do that in iMovie.

Of course, that's often a deliberate choice to give a more informal feeling. Maybe this is a viral-marketing job by the Obama campaign. Maybe it's some freelance work by an Kucinich or a Ron Paul supporter trying to bleed off some of Edwards' netroots support. That seems more likely to me, at the moment--especially since, as others have pointed out, "get it right the first time" is a DK line.

The fact that it has not been posted on any websites yet, to my knowledge, is surprising. The direction of the ad is sophisticated--it attacks Edwards on a strength of his (his honesty) by exposing the weakness underlying it. Whoever did it knows what they're doing.

[FrenchieCat]

19. Many here at DU have been discussing Edwards "I'm sorry" on everything

since the beginning of this primary election.

It wouldn't take a brain surgeon to come out with the idea for this video. :eyes:

[laureloak]

23. Oh, it was one of the converted Clarkies then.

[FrenchieCat]

28. Or one of those "He didn't look at me and give me a smile at the last meeting.......

and so I'll fix him" crazy Edwards female supporter! :shrug:

[laureloak]

36. That makes no sense. Try getting some therapy to get over '04.

[FrenchieCat]

41. Urh......Edwards is running now......

Your Clarkie crack wasn't anymore funny than my Edwards mad stalker example was. Guess you own the corner market on first strikes and judging what makes sense, hey?

[laureloak]

42. It's just that you stalk Edwards because of '04. Time to let it go.

[frogcycle]

11. Kucinich

The line about 'get it right the first time' is his

Although I would not be surprised if it was pugs just trying to keep us divided

People are coalescing around Edwards and Biden as the glitter and novelty wears off the two glamor candidates

The pugs KNOW that is their biggest threat. If we could stop fooling around with them, and DK, and Richardson, and Dodd (I like lots of things about all of them) and just run Biden/Edwards this thing would be over. We could move the inauguration up a year.

The not-so-stealth campaign to keep us at each others throats probably uses our own people as fronts.

[laureloak]

22. Let those among us who have never made a wrong decision

cast the first stone.

[Occam Bandage]

25. Let those of us who have never made a right decision

avoid running for President.

This goes double if you spend half the time at the debates complaining about the frontrunner being a conservative sellout.

[FrenchieCat]

27. That would be "wrong decisionS" with an "S" at the end of Decision.

Let those among us who are not running for President but will be voting for one

cast a vote for a candidate who has made minimal wrong decisions involving the lives of thousands and the well being of others.

[sandnsea]

37. Well at least it focuses on the ISSUES n/t

[zalinda]

39. Who cares?

I know I don't. Many here on this board have made videos of the repub candidates. Big deal. I imagine that during the general election, there will be so many videos, both good and bad that it will become ridiculous. He did say he was sorry, so what. We now have an idiot in the White House who thinks he has been right in every decision he has ever made. And you know what? For some people all those decisions have been right.

Give me a man who can say he is sorry, and will try to avoid making the same mistake, over someone who thinks they always make the right decision, any time.

zalinda

[liskddksil]

40. by the way

I dont think John is sorry, that he fought hard for the sunset clause in the patriot act. I dont think he's sorry that he almost got the patients bill of rights passed which the corporate lobbyists were able to defeat. I dont think he's sorry that he voted against Bush's 87 billion Iraq appropriation because there was no provision for body armor. All candidates make mistakes, but Edwards has had some great moments too!