When I talk about 'it's not enough to just elect a Democrat', I'm dead serious about that. In the 1990s when the heath care reform effort was made to bring universal health care, we had Democratic president, we had a Democratic Senate, and we had a Democratic House. And the drug companies, insurance companies and lobbyists killed it. They killed it. The only way this is going to happen if we bring real and fundamental change to the way this government operates and ... willing to take take these people home. This is a battle. It is a fight. And for people to say, 'well you know, that's not hopeful enough, we need to be more hopeful', listen, I am hopeful. I am hopeful, but I'm also a fighter, and I'll give you an example... Before I got into politics I spent 20 years fighting these people in court rooms. Really. 20 years. If you just picture in your mind, I would walk into court rooms; me, a child, and whoever I represented, a family, and on the other side would be all the corporate lawyers, and all their money. And I didn't just walk into that court room over and over; I walked in there and beat them over and over.
And that's exactly what I will do as president.
One of the last cases I handled, though, I represented a little girl who was really badly hurt on a swimming pool drain; it was defective, and the company knew it was defective. They hid it. Kids had been drowned and badly hurt on it, and they just hid the information because they were still selling them. And so I sat with this family. They were devastated, you know. Really sweet people. And I said, 'we can help you; we can do something about this'. And I gave them hope. And then I walked into that court room and I gave that company hell. And that's exactly what we need again. We need a president, a president who will give America hope and will give these powerful interests, that are stopping America from getting what it needs, hell. You know, I don't know if anybody here remembers that famous Harry Truman thing when they said, when somebody said, 'Oh Harry, you're giving them hell' and he said, 'no, just telling the truth, and it feels like hell'.
Any Edwards fans out there? Thom played this near the end of the show on Wednesday. He said he found it on Democratic Underground, and that it is from a speech during the past few days in Iowa. There's not enough information for me to tell which of the Iowa speeches it was, and I don't have time to listen to them all. If you do know which speech this comes from (and it has to be this one, not another where he talks about the same sort of thing), please would you let me know so I can link to it? The time it starts on the recording would also be helpful. Thanks.
Sue N.
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I am a strong Edwards' supporter, in fact I work on his campaign locally. I believe he is exactly what this country needs, and I do believe everytime I see him in a debate that he proves how much better of a candidate he would be for the democratic party than Clinton or Obama.
"Yeehaw" is not a foreign policy!
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Whats interesting about Edwards that I saw, in hypothetical polls, him carrying states like Oklahoma and Arkansas and New Mexico in addition to the traditional Blue States. What are we doing wrong?
"a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."
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