When is the last time, before Edwards, that we actually had a major candidate [View All]

[Jackpine Radical]

stand up and take an anti-corporate stance? FDR, maybeI would say. Among the Dem Presidents since FDR, Truman was the first Cold Warrior. Kennedy was another hardliner--remember the "missile gap," etc. LBJ brought us civil rights and a deepening invlovement in Vietnam. Carter was never a real threat to the corporations, and Clinton befriended them.

The more I think about Edwards, the more excited I get. I was born in FDR's last term, and Edwards would be the first President since then to explicitly seek fundamental changes in the power structure of America.