American Prospect Online - Survival of the Richest

Being from the southland, like Mr. Edwards, I applaud him.

Hell No. He isn't gonna listen to polls? He isn't gonna stick a well licked finger into the air. HELL NO!

Let us not, please; not listen to the MSM's rapid breathin' over whatever the Rethugs have found objectional this time.

The point is that Mr. Edwards is, and always has been, for the poor and the disabled and others who are vulnerable in our society, like the elderly amd humble labor in this country of ours.. That does not mean that the man is against commerce.

He is against, I believe, corrupt commerce which is married to corrupt government, a marriage made in hell and sanctified by the religiously insane; though he is too much of a gentleman to say so, because he and his family are religious, also, but in a diffrent way from the religous whckos of every nation who want to act out right now, an are doing so with deadly results, because they are frightened out of their wits.

Fearful people are not very nice people. Victims are even worse."

How true....as we have come to know.

Nevertheless, why in hell do we continue to declare war on everything we don't like? We should ban that word, unless we really mean it, and it should not be resolved to fight another war on any noun; certainly not war on plants or a war on an extreme emotion.

American Prospect Online - Survival of the Richest:

"Former senator John Edwards gave a terrific speech to the National Press Club Thursday, one that felt like eloquence from another age. His theme: America should end poverty in three decades, mainly by rewarding work and promoting opportunity.

'Poverty is the great moral issue of our time,' Edwards declared. This speech was his de facto kickoff for a run at the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

Unlike most of the undeclared Democratic field, Edwards is not putting his finger to the prevailing wind. He's trying to change it. After his 2004 vice-presidential run, Edwards admirably went home to the University of North Carolina to head its Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity.

Though the speech was long-scheduled, Edwards' timing was unerring. On Wednesday, Senator Edward Kennedy's bill to raise the federal minimum wage from its paltry $5.15 an hour to $7.25 won the votes of 52 senators, a majority, including eight Republicans. But the Republican leadership blocked it with a filibuster.

Meanwhile, as if to underscore just whose interests they serve, the Republican majority in the House pushed through a bill to repeal the estate tax, except for the mega-rich. Only estates of over $5 million ($10 million for couples) would pay any tax; most of them would pay just 15 percent. "