JOHN EDWARDS: "The Question I Wasn't Asked"

[FourScore]

An excerpt:

"...There were a lot of good questions tonight and I was glad that I got to address many important areas of policy and character. But there was one critical question I wasn't asked - one that's extremely relevant right now as President Bush and Congress are set to face off in Washington. I'd like to answer that for you here:

What should we be doing — right now — to end the war in Iraq?

As you've heard, the Senate has followed the House and passed a bill to fund our troops with a timeline to bring them home and end the conflict. Both houses of Congress have now passed funding bills that reflect the will of the American people that we must end the war in Iraq.

The president has said he will veto this legislation, which will defy the American people and deny our troops the funding they need. When that happens, the president will be the one blocking support for our troops, not Congress.

With so much at stake, Congress must stand firm.

If Bush vetoes the funding for our troops, Congress must send the same bill back to the president -- and they should do this again and again--as many times as it takes for Bush to understand that the American people are right and the war must be brought to an end..."

http://blog.johnedwards.com/

[tularetom]

1. "again and again" - I like the way he thinks

Now if he'd just shut up with things like that "highfalutin" crap. I don't give a rats ass how poor he was nor do I give a flyin fuck if he now lives in a big house and gets expensive haircuts. If he keeps saying stuff like this I'll support him.

[Jane Austin]

2. How poor was he?

I keep hearing on radio talk shows that his father was a union man.

Seems like if he was a union worker he wouldn't have been that poor.

On the other hand, were there even unions in those textile mills back then? Was the movie "Norma Rae" based in fact?

[FourScore]

3. Norma Rae is a true story. n/t

[frogcycle]

4. i might be misremembering, but

seems like i recall that his father was out of work for an extended period when the mill closed

regardless, whether poverty or merely working class struggling to make ends meet, he was not "to the manor born"