Edwards ---- Hardball transcript

[Lilli]

Edwards rocks :)

MATTHEWS: There was an interesting moment in your debate with the vice president where he tried to sidle up to you in terms of background. He wasn’t going to let you be the poor kid and the rich kid. Remember that?

EDWARDS: I do.

MATTHEWS: And he talked about how you both had sort of rough-scrabble backgrounds, OK. How did you go on different routes? Think back now. You went and became the guy who loved to prosecute the big shots. I read half your book and it’s all about taking on big hospitals, influential people, big shots…

EDWARDS: And you didn’t finish?

MATTHEWS: Well it’s still good. I like it. But the fact is you seem to have been the guy that had that sort of maverick “I’m going to take on the big shots.” He became a big shot. What’s the difference between you and Dick Cheney?

EDWARDS: The difference is that what he’s done is he has gotten away from being on the side of average Americans and has become on the side of big drug companies, big insurance companies, big oil companies. And that cost the American people. This is not some abstract thing.
Rising health care costs, rising gasoline prices, oil prices going through the roof, and you can’t be on the side of big insurance companies, big drug companies, big oil companies and then be on the side of the American people, it doesn’t work. And they have shown over and over and over which side they are on. We’re on the other side.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6250963/

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Edwards will be President someday and Obama will be his V.P!

[apnu]

2. Obama! My future senator!

[wishlist]

3. Edwards was absolutely outstanding on Hardball= Tweety respectful too

What you posted was only part of his wonderful interview last night where he discussed details of Cheney and Halliburton misdeeds, Cheney pattern of misleading statements and the Mary Cheney controversy in a sensitive and eloquent way too. Chris Matthews showed him proper respect too, although at one point Edwards told him to stop talking and let him answer!

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Sometimes I have to wonder if Tweety isn't more fair minded

than I usually take him for being. Sometimes he seems to be spouting RW talking points, at other, he's a reasonable person. And I know one freeper who absolutely detests him, for being too liberal.

So is he really fair and balanced? Or "Fair and Balanced?"

[Lilli]

5. I dunno about fair and balanced

But I absolutely feel that Matthews thinks Edwards is the right guy.

Also read a transcript of Matthews interview with Edwards in 2002.
He liked him then too.