| I've made up my mind whom to endorse and support for the Democratic nomination for president. I made up my mind just this past week.....
former U.S. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.
Sadly Senator Edwards has been lost in the shuffle of the Main Stream Media, who just wants a story more than anything else and thus give Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all the attention in this race.
Really I don't blame either Senators Clinton or Obama at all. They are victims of the Main Stream Media just as much if not more as Senator Edwards himself. They lose by getting too much attention and Senator Edwards on the other hand loses by not getting nearly enough of it.
While I do love Senators H. Clinton and B. Obama and will support them 100 percent if they win the nomination I believe 100 percent, I fully believe 100 percent that Edwards is the most qualified candidate this time out.
First of all, Senator Edwards is the only one of the three to admit 100 percent he was wrong in initially supporting this awful Iraq War.
Second, his economic and health care policies favor the middle-class more than either Clinton's or Obama's.
Third of all, he is the best "fighter" we Democrats have right now against the Republicans and the one least likely to compromise with the Republicans.
Bipartisanship to me is just a myth. We Democrats have actually been way too guilty of that in my honest opinion. In fact the Main Stream Media expects us Democrats to work with and compromise with the Republicans in Congress...
while the Republicans shown absolutely no intentions of doing the same themselves in return....
In fact the Republicans in the United States Senate have obstructed and/or filibustered just about every bill we Democrats have opposed since we took over Congress in 2006.
That gets very little if any Main Stream Media coverage. In fact the MSM actually blames Senate Democrats for not courageous and persistent enough and standing their ground like they should.
While I do admit 100 percent that the Democrats in the Senate have not done nearly enough in that regard, it's very difficult to do that in a 50/50 senate where a simple 51 votes is just not good enough and there have always been at least 41 and usually more Republican votes, and sadly a few "Blue Dog" and "Bush Dog" Democrats as well, to filibuster and obstruct passage of crucial and vital legislation...
much less Bush's veto pen which was almost non-existant - and his first veto didn't occur until the 6th year of presidency against stem-cell research - during the dreadful 6 years of a Congress run by his own Republican Party - only to re-discover it again since we Democrats officially took over Congress again Jan. 2007 in the very few cases where some of his fellow Republicans have worked with the Democrats in a "bipartisan" manner...
i.e. the SCHIP bill which would have kept in place children's health care for low and middle-income working families....
while Bush instead favors spending billions if not trillions of dollars on the Iraq War, and for subsidizing defense contractors, BigPharma, insurance companies, and oil companies.
Yet the MSM for some strange reason lets the Republicans slide by as far as "bipartisanship" is concerned. For the most part Republicans have made absolutely no effort at all in being "bipartisan" at all.
Senator Edwards has been the only one of the three Democratic frontrunners who has been willing and able to take on the Republicans and their supports head on and fight for what we Democrats stand for on a consistent basis:
namely getting out of Iraq and helping the poor and middle class persons and families.
Fourth and most important of all Edwards is tne most electable of the three. He leads and probably beats all Republican frontrunners in major polls: Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani, Thompson, and most of all....
yes and most importantly US Senator J. McCain of Arizona....
whom on the other hand leads both Sens. Clinton and Obama in almost all major polls.
Edwards IMHO also carries West Virginia while Clinton and Obama are slightly behind McCain right now.
And to me that is most important thing of them all right now. I know Sens. Clinton and Obama probably have more political experience than Edwards....
but in this election electability does matter, simply because this country cannot take four more years of Republican rule under Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani, Thompson...
and yes good ol' "maverick" John McCain...
who votes with Bush over 90 percent of the time and is arguably the biggest supporter of the illegal Iraq War right now, even just half-way joking we'll be over there 100 years.
And right now Edwards is our best, and even perhaps our only shot, at beating McCain, whom I now think is the Republican most likely to win their party's nomination.
Even though the Republican base can't stand McCain, they still would prefer him 100 percent over Edwards that's most definitely certain.
Sadly Republicans have always been more intelligent as far as nominating winning candidates than us Democrats have, with the exception of one William Jefferson Clinton.
That's why I am supporting 100 percent former US Senator John Edwards for president in 2008.
That said I will still support the Democratic Presidential nominee 100 percent, whether it be Clinton, Obama, or Edwards.
We cannot afford another 4 years of a Republican president in the White House, whether it be Romney, Giuliani, Huckabee, Thompson, and yes good ol' Republican "maverick" John McCain.
'Nuff said. |
