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politicsanyone - > Politics, anyone? -> Local group campaigns for John Edwards
Local group campaigns for John Edwards
Kern County is not fertile ground for Democratic presidential candidates, but supporters of former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards are giving it a good try.
They have formed a local chapter of One Corps, the Edwards campaign’s network of grassroots organizations across the country. It’s called Central California for John Edwards and it’s headed by Lauren Stroud, who just graduated from Liberty High School and is headed off to college in the fall.
It has a campaign party planned for 7 p.m. next Wednesday, June 27, at 13013 Birkenfeld Ave. It will feature a DVD address by Edwards, and a live conference call with the candidate himself, Stroud announced.
For more info, here’s the group’s Web site: http://blog.johnedwards.com...
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posted by politicsanyone on Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 04:18 PM
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posted by justincase on Jul 12, 2007 at 01:06 PM

All we need in this already overly litigious society is some pretty boy who made his big bucks "channeling" the dead child in a medical malpractice case!

This guy is unbelievable! We have a judge in D.C. sueing some Korean immigrant cleaners for $56 mil for a pair of pants and a couple "ladies of color" in NY suing Toys R Us for $400 mil for checking their reciepts as they leave the store. Just like they do mine at Wally World I might add. Yeah, thats what we need in the WH, someone who does "slip and fall" lawyering for a living! SHEESH!

posted by randomfactor on Jul 12, 2007 at 02:37 PM

Justincase, I assume you feel that way about the following people:

Alberto Gonzales
Harriet Miers
Fred Fielding
Robert Bork
About half the US Senate

Shrub seems to rely on lawyers himself quite a bit.  Damned whiny "poor me" victim that he is.

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As to "channeling the dead child" I believe you mean the still-quite-living child who had her intestines sucked out by a defective pool product, made by a manufacturer who lost big only after they refused several settlement offers.  Or the still-quite-living child born with cerebral palsy due to the malpractice of her mother's OB?  Perhaps those children should have just sucked it up--sorry, bad pun--and lived with the conditions which would determine the rest of their lives rather than have one of those bloodsucking lawyers fight for them.

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As to the "pretty boy" comment, we're not asking you to kiss him, however attractive you may find him.  He'd settle for a vote.  But if you want it to go to trial, feel free to resist his settlement offer.

 

 

posted by RoyTullis on Jul 12, 2007 at 02:42 PM
John Edwards? Not even worth talking about..
posted by randomfactor on Jul 12, 2007 at 02:45 PM

So don't.  Plenty of others are doing so.

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But it's still *WAY* early.  My two favorites haven't even entered the race...yet.

posted by Hardliner4freedom on Jul 12, 2007 at 03:00 PM
Who would you vote for, Roy, and why?
posted by RoyTullis on Jul 12, 2007 at 03:10 PM
H4f . You got me there.  I don't care for any of them in either party,  Really up against it this time.  I'm patiently waiting for one or two to move out in front of the herd.  Hopefully they will in time...
posted by randomfactor on Jul 12, 2007 at 03:24 PM

Edwards is my #3 choice, behind Gore and Clark.  But if B.L. Zebub gets the Democratic nomination I'll vote for him instead of Four More Years.

posted by redkernhero on Jul 12, 2007 at 04:40 PM

Obama, will bomb, he will be Fordized and Bradleyized beyond recognition. Hillary is also not a viable candidate nationwide; she will suffer the slings and arrows of many Ann Coulters and Ann Coulters in drag. Whitewater will be revived and someone will find something on Bill, real or imagined.

However, the real and most important reason why neither of these candidates has the chance of Marylee Shrider walking around in her Bikini outside the Green zone in Iraq, is the hypocrisy of the American voter, they say one thing and do another inn cases of race and gender.

And yes, B.L. Zebub would stand a better chance at becoming President of the United States than either one of these Democratic candidates.

posted by TomW on Jul 12, 2007 at 04:49 PM
I think Edwards is great.  You want to make fun of what he did, why don't you tell it to the little girl who was recently disemboweled by a swimming pool cleaner:  http://wjz.com/local/local_...


Abigail Taylor
Abigail Taylor has bright brown eyes and a big smile, but she will never be the same again after a pool drain in a swimming pool sucked out her intestines and ended up in the filter.

"She more or less blacked out, she passed out, fell face-first onto the pool decking," said her father Scott Taylor.

The suction ripped a hole in her rectum. She'll have to be fed through a tube and will have to wear a colostomy bag for the rest of her life.


How much compensation would you be entitled to if this were your daughter?  How much money would it take to make sure this doesn't happen to another child ever again?
posted by ProgressivePete2 on Jul 12, 2007 at 04:56 PM
I'm with you RF, He's my strong #3 choice, but since the other 2 aren't running (yet???) He's the tops. I really like Elizabeth too. She just seems like your All-American Mom.  Not too sure about Obama, and Hillary is way too conservative for my taste.

If Rudy 9-11 is the R's best candidate, the Dems could put just about anybody up there and win. Carol Mosley Braun anyone?
posted by sagefever on Jul 12, 2007 at 05:29 PM
The lead post over at sirens(plug!) is about the Edwards campaign,but the take is about Mrs. Edwards and her cancer,if that will impact his ability to govern.I do not think so,but the fact and the grace of how they are handling death is what will freak out America.
posted by drilnliftcrude on Jul 12, 2007 at 05:50 PM
The man who gives speeches about poverty to students on fixed incomes for 50,000 dollars will be back home for good by April 1st.
posted by TomW on Jul 12, 2007 at 05:54 PM
Heh, drilnlift.  He'll be home by Jan 20th, 2009.  Settling into his mansion in the heart of DC.
posted by justincase on Jul 13, 2007 at 07:36 AM

Drilnlift, don't bother the Libs on here with the facts. Just like Random doesn't fact check the times when his "slip and fall atty" did in fact channel deceased children (as well as those still living) for his 33 to 40%, the Libs in America will attempt to put the bloated bloviator on Global Whining in office so China can pollute the hell out of the planet while we become their door mats.

Drill, you obviously work in the oil fields where you are paid by your productivity. Random and "Tom" are most likely white collar educated office workers like the litigious "judge" in DC who sued the Korean Cleaners for $56 mil for a pair of pants.

Yeah, we'll be really well off with these people who've never made a payroll in charge. If it weren't for us growing their food and bringing them their energy, they'd have to just sit around and piss & moan and sue each other. Great society that!

 

posted by justincase on Jul 13, 2007 at 04:32 PM
BTW Random, whilst  you erroneously presume I meant lawyer generically, I did not. I was very specific. Slip and Fall Atty. Thats what Edwards is (was). The others are just attys. Gee, didn't know that. You must be real smart!
posted by TomW on Jul 13, 2007 at 05:58 PM
Good assumption, Justincase.  Unfortunately, I work in construction.  You grow the food and I'll build the houses.  How's that sound?
posted by justincase on Jul 13, 2007 at 07:15 PM

Sounds good Tom

Hope you can sell 'em all....................

 

posted by justincase on Jul 13, 2007 at 07:33 PM

BTW Tom, it was on another thread you asked about COOL

Good idea. Not new. I support it in essence. Look at Harris Ranch. The only way we are going to make it in beef is to get the Tom Sellecks and Sam Elliotts to help us sell the value added products that lazy people just have to nuke. These are obviously Country of Origin Labeling, but it is much more than that. We need to get a lot smarter about our biz.........

posted by TomW on Jul 13, 2007 at 08:43 PM
Justincase, I'm just working on repairing them right now.  With all the *stuff* that's gone up over the last few years, I figure I'll be able to  retire early.  :)

I'm actually interested in a stronger version of COOL, making it *County* of origin labeling.  It'd be good not just for the ranchers, but also for Kern and all the way up to Stanislaus. 
posted by justincase on Jul 14, 2007 at 08:30 AM

Good idea Tom. I like the COUNTY in COOL! Glad BTW you prospered in the "bubble".

To Pete: I think it was you or Random who mentioned why I hate all Libs and even create strawmen to lump them all in one box. I got drafted back in the late 60's and went to VN as a lowly grunt infrantryman. I didn't wanna be there but did my job well enough to come back a hard rank Sgt.

Came back to derision, being spat upon, called baby killers, etc. we did. Some of us were even "Libs". But it was those self same Lib peaceniks who did it that are now railing for us to leave Iraq at any cost. And the cost will be high.

And yes, they were libs then and libs now and most of them are Democrats. So forgive me if I am still a bit bitter.

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