Reply #42: I think JRE is a discplined campaigner, and natural one-on-one [View All]

[I_am_Spartacus]

EE is a natural campaigner, and I presume that she's natural in person.

I watched her get in an argument about free trade with someone who thought that cheap overseas labor was all good. She went back and forth with this guy for a long time, very politely, and NATURALLY. At the end of it, she said, "look, the US can't go on not making anything. We cant survive as a service economy." It was good and fine, but I'm not sure a lot of the audience really understood on a visceral level what was being debated.

While listening, I thought, I bet John Edwards would have a disciplined pithy response that, if not conversational enough, would at least leave people waliking away with an idea on visceral level about what Edwards believes in.

I think that's why he's running for president and she's the person behind the man. I suspect she and he have conversations about the issues all the time, and then he reduces all these complicated ideas down to their crack cocaine version so that peole can really feel the issues.