Michael Moore: Who should we vote for? John Edwards

[JDPriestly]

It's hard to get past the hair, isn't it? But once you do -- and recently I have chosen to try -- you find a man who is out to take on the wealthy and powerful who have made life so miserable for so many. A candidate who says things like this: "I absolutely believe to my soul that this corporate greed and corporate power has an ironclad hold on our democracy." Whoa. We haven't heard anyone talk like that in a while, at least not anyone who is near the top of the polls. I suspect this is why Edwards is doing so well in Iowa, even though he has nowhere near the stash of cash the other two have. He won't take the big checks from the corporate PACs, and he is alone among the top three candidates in agreeing to limit his spending and be publicly funded. He has said, point-blank, that he's going after the drug companies and the oil companies and anyone else who is messing with the American worker. The media clearly find him to be a threat, probably because he will go after their monopolistic power, too. This is Roosevelt/Truman kind of talk. That's why it's resonating with people in Iowa, even though he doesn't get the attention Obama and Hillary get -- and that lack of coverage may cost him the first place spot tomorrow night. After all, he is one of those white guys who's been running things for far too long.

And he voted for the war. But unlike Senator Clinton, he has stated quite forcefully that he was wrong. And he has remorse. Should he be forgiven? Did he learn his lesson? Like Hillary and Obama, he refused to promise in a September debate that there will be no U.S. troops in Iraq by the end of his first term in 2013. But this week in Iowa, he changed his mind. He went further than Clinton and Obama and said he'd have all the troops home in less than a year.

Edwards is the only one of the three front-runners who has a universal health care plan that will lead to the single-payer kind all other civilized countries have. His plan doesn't go as fast as I would like, but he is the only one who has correctly pointed out that the health insurance companies are the enemy and should not have a seat at the table.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=220

[MethuenProgressive]

1. If Moore is serious about his resons to support Edwards

He should've put his support behind Bill Richardson instead of "settling" for the lesser of three evils.

Bill Richardson:
www.2013IsTooLate.com
www.TheDifferenceOnIraq.com
www.richardsonforpresident.com

[Armstead]

11. Richardson is DLC

I like Richardson, and respect his position on the war.

But he is classic DLC, which is probably one reason Moore didn't go with him.

[mtnsnake]

2. Well, folks, that's the end of John Edwards' chances. Oh well.

[onehandle]

3. He's not endorsing him.

Yet.

"I am not endorsing anyone at this point. This is simply how I feel in the first week of the process to replace George W. Bush. "

[DesertRat]

4. Your title thread is clearly misleading. Moore made it clear that

he is not yet endorsing anyone.

[WillTheGoober]

5. heh ...

Ok. :-)

W.

[1corona4u]

6. Does JE offer catastrophic health insurance?

I don't feel like wading through a 70 page PDF to find out, so if anyone knows, please post it.

[Clark2008]

8. Not this week... but next week, after polls indicate a shift

in the population's want of catastrophic health insurance, Edwards will "sincerely" apologize for not including it in the plan before then announcing that it always was in the plan, but the media (and others' supporters) misinterpreted what he had written.

:hi:

[1corona4u]

9. LOL....

Thanks, and I think you're right. Joe offers it in his plan now...;-)

[youthere]

12. ..

:spray:

Oh you bad...you is.

[laureloak]

7. My favorite part:

"I absolutely believe to my soul that this corporate greed and corporate power has an ironclad hold on our democracy."

[bvar22]

10. I like this part too:

"Edwards is the only one of the three front-runners who has a universal health care plan that will lead to the single-payer kind all other civilized countries have. His plan doesn't go as fast as I would like, but he is the only one who has correctly pointed out that the health insurance companies are the enemy and should not have a seat at the table."

:toast:

[Flabbergasted]

13. kick

[GreenTea]

14. K&R

:kick:

[goldcanyonaz]

15. This is like the kiss of death. He should have just kept his trap shut!

[Bluebear]

17. You don't like Michael Moore?

[Little Star]

18. Why? I thought only Repugs don't like Moore. n/t

[LaPera]

16. John Edwards! Moore is a progressive and he's absolutely correct!

[onehandle]

19. Kick! nt