Edwards on NPR: Route to Peace in Iraq

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Wednesday February 07, 2007 · 6:00 AM PST

2007/02/07 · 06:00

John Edwards spoke to Diane Rehm on NPR by phone from Detroit, Michigan on Tuesday morning for the entire first hour of the Diane Rehm show. He answered many questions from Ms. Rehm and interested callers and from listeners who had sent emails. Over the course of the hour, many topic were discussed, but one thing that struck me as different from what I've heard from other leaders is that Edwards spoke in the frame of 'peace in Iraq' rather than war in Iraq. I thought about our words, how we use them, and how they set a vision for us - positive or negative depending upon the language used - as we move toward any form of human progress.

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What do you envision when you think of Iraq's future?

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What do you envision when you think of Iraq's future?

Peace and political reconciliation or resolution

19 votes

Fear-inspiring rhetoric used to keep the U.S. involved

29 votes

Endless violence, death, and war regardless of U.S. involvement

94 votes

WaPo Ombudsman: Story On Edwards House Sale Misleading

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Saturday January 27, 2007 · 8:41 AM PST

2007/01/27 · 08:41

I'm sure some of you will recall a rather hysterical-sounding diary written a couple weeks ago here at Daily Kos in which the diarist claimed that the front-page Washington Post story, written by John Solomon, about the sale of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards's Georgetown house signaled "the end of Edwards' campaign." In tomorrow's Washington Post, there will be a printed statement from ombudsman Deborah Howell that, for all intents and purposes, will finally put an end to the undue speculation about the Edwards family's integrity.

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Friday January 19, 2007 · 1:55 PM PST

2007/01/19 · 13:55

In a column titled Balancing Priorities, Washington Post writer E.J. Dionne credits Senator John Edwards for his honesty in telling America that he has "higher priorities than a perfectly balanced budget." Mr. Dionne contrasts that principled stand with an easily detectible lack of honesty from President Bush, "who campaigned on a balanced-budget pledge, then dug the country hundreds of billions of dollars deeper into debt with huge tax cuts and an unpaid-for war, and now promises a balanced budget four years after he leaves office."

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Sunday November 19, 2006 · 9:48 AM PST

2006/11/19 · 09:48

If there is one fact that has been evidenced by the need for the Baker/Hamilton-led Iraq Survey group, it is that for the first three years of the Iraq war, President Bush has failed to employ a strategy of diplomacy that would have included speaking with all nations to secure a level of international cooperation required to gain us an advantage in the overall war on terror. From the start of the Iraq war, Senator John McCain of Arizona has not been as strongly forthcoming on Bush's leadership shortcomings as we would expect a leader of honesty, strength and conviction should be.

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Will Senator McCain's Hypocrisy Hurt Him in 2008?

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Will Senator McCain's Hypocrisy Hurt Him in 2008?

If a 2008 Democratic front runner knows how to frame the debate

23 votes

Most Americans won't notice Senator McCain's hypocrisy

13 votes

Not Sure

1 vote

2008 Already? Disgusted by Today's Meet the Press

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Sunday November 12, 2006 · 9:50 AM PST

2006/11/12 · 09:50

As we approach 2008, I suspect that the trend in the mainstream media will be to lead the American people toward a gooey center where conviction gets lost in a political mixing bowl of soft, inert, and easily soluable ingredients. I got that impression after watching the line-up of guests on Meet the (Depressing) Press today. I saw 2004 RNC Convention Bush-cheerleader John McCain continue to beat up on the losing 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (long after Kerry rightfully apologized for his weird joke) and Joe Lieberman making inexcusable excuses for his attempt to muzzle critics of the miserably failed Iraq war. These two men, McCain and Lieberman, seem so full of ego and ambition to me - so 2008 starry-eyed - that they seem perfectly willing to toss principle aside for popularity. Is that what Americans want from their leaders? Read More

Minimum Wage - A Key Election 2006 Win for Democrats

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Friday November 10, 2006 · 7:46 AM PST

2006/11/10 · 07:46

The elections are over now. The Democrats made a tremendous showing, taking scores of seats away from entenched Republican incumbents. American voters clearly recognized the need for change in the direction in which our nation has been headed. Political analysts will spend a lot of time deciding which issues helped to push Democrats over the top in 2006, and I believe that the ballot inititives to raise the minimum wage in six swing states will be seen by analysts as a key issue and an important catalyst for this Democratic landslide. While we can breathe a temporary sigh of relief about our big win, we know that our work has just begun. After ballot proposals to raise the minimum wage passed in six states, the new speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has called raising the federal minimum wage a top priority. Read More

NY-25 - Gen Clark Rallies with Dan Maffei

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Monday November 06, 2006 · 6:37 AM PST

2006/11/06 · 06:37

[New York Congressional District 25] - On a chilly autumn Sunday afternoon in Syracuse, about 200 Democrats came out to the Dan Maffei for Congress campaign office in North Syracuse for a rally at which General Wesley Clark spoke. Read More

Happy Birthday, President Carter!

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Sunday October 01, 2006 · 6:36 AM PDT

2006/10/01 · 06:36

James Earl Carter, Jr.was born October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. He went on to be elected as our nation's thirty-ninth President in 1976. Here's wishing a very 82nd Happy Birthday to President Carter and a salute to him and to his wife Rosalynn for the great work they're doing at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
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Clinton Global Initiative Workshop on Darfur

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Friday September 22, 2006 · 10:04 AM PDT

2006/09/22 · 10:04

I'm blogging the Clinton Global Initiative Meeting in midtown Manhattan and watching former President Clinton give the meeting's extremely inspiring closing comments. I just came back from Senator Hillary Clinton's special session on Women and the Power of Economic Opportunity. I wanted to send you my report on the working session on Darfur, which took place yesterday. It was titled: "The Case of Darfur: Can Citizen Mobilization Make a Difference?" Read More

5 Years After 911: A Bad Recipe for Democracy

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Monday September 11, 2006 · 11:08 AM PDT

2006/09/11 · 11:08

At a ceremony at the Pentagon this morning, Vice President Dick Cheney called this a "day of national unity." Looking back five years, the call Mr. Cheney raised for unity landed flat and hollow. No doubt, all of our hearts, our healing thoughts, and our prayers are with our fellow Americans who lost loved ones in the 9/11 tragedy in New York, Washington D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Our common human values unite us on such a day. We are united in compassion. When it comes to matters of government however, I believe that our leaders should have seen to it that the unity that they hawk like the new barkers of the modern-day Infomercial was not just an annually-found sentimental essence of a long lost passing fancy, but instead they should have helped to forge a perennial unity among American citizens.

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Tuesday September 05, 2006 · 8:55 AM PDT

2006/09/05 · 08:55

At a time when we citizens of the U.S. are still scratching our heads over former Secretary of State Colin Powell's pre-Iraq war intelligence presentation to the United Nations in 2003, all of which was wrong, wrong, wrong and for which he is embarrassed today, a new film strikes a rather heartsick humorous chord. Military Intelligence and You! is a unique satirical film that I had the opportunity to recently preview. It's a war spoof by Dale Kutzera, who has worked as a screenwriter for the past six years, first co-creating and producing the VH-1 series "Strange Frequency" and later on staff at the CBS series "Without a Trace." The film not only looks and feels like a World War Two-era training film, but is comprised of actual scenes from the era's propaganda/training films. Read More

After Katrina: Bush and GOP Have Neglected Poverty

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Sunday August 27, 2006 · 7:56 AM PDT

2006/08/27 · 07:56

On today's Fox News, Bush point-man on Hurricane Katrina recovery, Don Powell, proved to America that the Bush adminstration is intent upon rebuilding the curtain that hid the face of poverty from our eyes for far too many years in the city of New Orleans. Mr. Powell appeared proud to say that he was satisfied that the ports, energy, and tourism were "back." He said nothing about the President's blatantly broken promises to attend to the poverty that has been so pervasive in the city. If anyone who heard Mr. Powell speak on Fox News this morning had suspected that the government's slow response to the hurricane was due to racism or class discrimination, their concerns may have been further reinforced. Don Powell looked like he didn't care about the people while he was concentrating on the fact that the money-machine was rolling in the region. Read More

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Edwards on NPR: Route to Peace in Iraq

WaPo Ombudsman: Story On Edwards House Sale Misleading

E.J. Dionne Credits Edwards, Throws Down Gauntlet to Obama/Clinton

O Mr. McCain, How Soon We Change

2008 Already? Disgusted by Today's Meet the Press

Minimum Wage - A Key Election 2006 Win for Democrats

NY-25 - Gen Clark Rallies with Dan Maffei

Happy Birthday, President Carter!

Clinton Global Initiative Workshop on Darfur

5 Years After 911: A Bad Recipe for Democracy

Indie Film Review: Military Intelligence and You!

After Katrina: Bush and GOP Have Neglected Poverty