EDWARDS on Meet the Press thread

[bearfartinthewoods]

Edwards takes on timmy...this should be interesting.

[bearfartinthewoods]

1. first up his NO vote on the 87 billion

and what would have happened was the next day the president would have come back with a better plan.

good one!

[bearfartinthewoods]

2. what would you do different

turn over the administration to the UN.
make it a NATO security force

[Doctor_J]

3. Sounds like the Senator

is on board with President Clark's plan... Maybe angling for the capt's chair on AF2?

[Changenow]

4. Overall Not Stunning

But a solid performance. He was obviously not comfortable with a direct up-or-down response to the question as to whether he regrets his Iraq vote. That was uncomfortable to watch, quite frankly.

[Doctor_J]

5. our candidates

and other high-profile Dems, and conscientious Repugs should cook up a stock answer for that question. Something along the lines of "Regret is probably an overstatement. With the situation as it was, and given what we now know were exaggerated claims by the administration, it was probably the right vote at the time. Now the situation has changed, and we need to work toward fixing it".

[IndianaGreen]

8. How about telling the truth, for a change?

The only prowar candidate that gets any kudos from me is Joe Lieberman. Holy Joe has been consistent in his defense of his vote for the war. Simply put, Lieberman wanted Saddam out, period!

Lieberman couldn't care less about WMD or the UN, he just thought that Saddam was a really bad guy, and a dangerous one, that the US had to topple Saddam's regime no matter what. Lieberman rightly points out the waffling of the other prowar candidates that are trying to have it both ways.

Although I have been a persistent critic of Lieberman, I have to give him credit for intellectual honesty when compared with the likes of the other prowar candidates.

[topdog08]

9. He was still firm in his support of the war

He was never backtracked on that. He was uncomfortable with the fact that there was apparently bad or missrepresented intelligence.

[bearfartinthewoods]

6. hhhaaahahah...timmy just said john asscroft by mistake

too perfect

[artr2]

7. listen to him defending his vote

for the patriot act & war vote - sounds just like a corporate whore - he just lost a lot in my mind

[realFedUp]

10. Two other threads on this....

[AnnabelLee]

11. Locking--Dupe

Please continue discussion in this thread, which was started a few minutes earlier
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=679167

Or this one, which was started later, but has more replies
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=679528

Thank you
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