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Sunday, August 05, 2007

Edwards Challenge at yKos

Edwards was great at the yKos Presidential Forum, and he is still far and away my favorite candidate for '08. By the way, my sense of the lay of the land comports exactly with the emerging conventional wisdom on this, I'm afraid, and I think the Party is most likely to nominate Clinton, and that Edwards is less likely to win the nomination than Obama also. I'll happily vote for either of them over any of the scoundrels in the Republican field, but I would -- and will -- fight hardest for Edwards.
Right now the system in Washington is broken – it’s rigged to serve the interests of those with the most money to throw around, rather than the best interest of the American people. The type of change America needs will never be achieved if we just replace the insiders from one party with the insiders from another party. That’s why the Democratic Party must lead the way in taking a bold step toward reform that will return the power in Washington back to where it belongs.

"Today, I challenge not just my fellow Democratic presidential candidates, but all federal officeholders and candidates from all political parties to join me in sending a message to all of the lobbyists in Washington: Your money is no good here, and we’re not going to take it anymore."

http://johnedwards.com/


Check out this enormously revealing exchange between Edwards and Clinton at the yKos event:

1 comment:

Nato Welch said...

Clinton could very well be right that she's never been influenced or changed by what a lobbyist has to say.

She's probably agreed with them all along. That's why she gets the lobbyist's money, and candidates who already disagree with them (or have begun to more recently) don't, and thus can't run campaigns. Edwards is a remarkable exception to that rule. Candidates aren't required to change or react to "influence" individually for the system of lobbying to work.

I think of it as a form of natural selection for political candidates.