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Clinton Secretly Visits Edwards; Obama NextABC News has learned that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., met with former Sen. John Edwards secretly at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Thursday. Clinton's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Illionis Sen. Barack Obama will meet with Edwards on Monday, sources say.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Obama]Clinton initially told reporters that she was not asking for Edwards' endorsement immediately after he got out of the race. Yesterday, speaking in Lewiston. Maine Clinton said "I'll ask John Edwards to help with anything I do in the White House."
This would be an important endorsement for Clinton to secure, and is essential enough to her that she made a stealth trip to North Carolina, despite her busy campaign schedule. Clinton was two hours late to her first event last Thursday in Virginia, presumably things in the Tar Hill state tied her up.
Edwards: 'It's Time For Me To Step Aside'Former Senator John Edwards, D-N.C., surrounded by his wife Elizabeth and his three children, announced Wednesday his presidential bid has come to an end.Permalink [Category: Edwards]"It's time for me to step aside so that history can blaze it's path," Edwards said in New Orleans on the site of a Habitat for Humanity home-building project.
"I began my presidential campaign here to remind the country that we, as citizens, and as a government have a moral responsibility to each other," he said. "We must do better if we want to live up to the great promise of this country that we all love so much."
Edwards Is Dropping OutNEW ORLEANS — Democratic candidate John Edwards has decided to drop out of the presidential primary race, giving a speech this afternoon at the same place where he began this campaign — in New Orleans.Permalink [Category: Edwards]Throughout this season, Mr. Edwards hasn’t been able to break through the dueling high-profile candidacies of Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. And he had not been able to raise the kind of funds that those two had early on.
Top advisers said that Mr. Edwards would not be endorsing another candidate today when he makes his announcement at 1 p.m. On Tuesday, Mr. Edwards canceled events in Alabama and North Dakota, opting instead to fly to New Orleans late Tuesday night. His press aides told reporters that he would make a “major policy speech” on poverty, in the city where Mr. Edwards announced his candidacy in December 2006.
Power Through Delegates May Be Edwards StrategyCHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — With the Democratic nominating contest building to Feb. 5, the candidates have been focusing on the crucial game of accumulating delegates, a task that has become a possible raison d’être for John Edwards.Permalink [Category: Edwards]After finishing third in three of the four primary contests so far — except in Iowa, where he beat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York for second place by less than one percentage point — Mr. Edwards has shown no sign of quitting, and his advisers have insisted that he still hopes to capture the nomination.
But they have also floated other rationales for a continued Edwards candidacy, suggesting that his delegates could be used to promote his platform or to help him act as a power broker at the Democratic convention.
Edwards's Appeal Overshadowed by Rivals' CelebrityIn a quiet moment of an otherwise-fiery Democratic debate Monday, Barack Obama reflected on the frenzy sparked by seemingly every one of his and Hillary Rodham Clinton's utterances."I'm not entirely faulting the media," Obama offered. "There's no doubt that in a race where you've got an African American and a woman," then, after an uncomfortable pause, he continued, "and John . . ."
The camera flashed to former senator John Edwards, smiling bashfully amid a chorus of audience laughter, the white man on a presidential stage that until this year was dominated by white men.
"Who could have imagined 20 years ago, 15 years ago, the white guy in the race would be the afterthought?" presidential historian Robert Dallek asked last night. "It's amazing."
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Edwards Criticizes Clinton CommentsSUMTER, S.C. (AP) -- Democrat John Edwards on Sunday waded into a dispute between his rivals, criticizing comments by Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband that some have considered disparaging to Barack Obama and black people generally.Permalink [Category: Civil Rights, Edwards, Hillary Clinton Archive]''I must say I was troubled recently to see a suggestion that real change that came not through the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King but through a Washington politician. I fundamentally disagree with that,'' Edwards told more than 200 people gathered at a predominantly black Baptist church.
Sen. Hillary Clinton recently was quoted as saying King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while Bill Clinton said Obama was telling a ''fairy tale'' about his opposition to the Iraq war.
Edwards to Press on Despite LossMANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards took his third-place New Hampshire finish in stride, pledging to carry his battle forward despite difficult odds. ''I am in this race until the convention,'' he told supporters.Permalink [Category: Edwards, New Hampshire Primary]Edwards had campaigned on a message of ridding Washington of special-interest corruption, and he made clear that despite finishing well behind his two main rivals he would not change course as the race heads toward ''Super Tuesday'' next month.
''I am in this race until we have actually restored the American dream and strengthened and restored the middle class in America,'' he said.
Underdog Edwards says he won't give up the fight for the White HouseLacking the money and poll numbers of Obama and Clinton, the former senator launches a bus tour of New Hampshire.Permalink [Category: Edwards]
Edwards Team Sees Three-Way RaceDES MOINES--"The status quo lost and change won," Edwards told a cheering crowd at a downtown Des Moines hotel. "We saw two candidates who thought their money made them inevitable."Permalink [Category: Edwards]But Iowa voters, he said, showed that "if you have a little backbone, a little courage," you can deliver a powerful message, and "that message to the American people is unstoppable, no matter how much money."
He then delivered sober parts of his stump speech about suffering Americans. The crowd went from cheers to silence, only roaring again when he talked about caucus night.
An Endorsement the Edwards Camp Isn’t Bragging AboutDES MOINES — About that Ralph Nader endorsement of John Edwards…. It came out in an interview with Mr. Nader in Politico about 8 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. But here’s the interesting thing. The Edwards campaign never put out a release about it.Permalink [Category: Edwards]That’s surprising because the Edwards campaign is a full-time publicity mill, churning out e-mails to reporters all day long about moments both big and small, keeping Mr. Edwards’s name constantly on the radar.
They just issued a release less than hour ago, for example, announcing that 13 people in Vermont — which doesn’t vote until March — were endorsing Mr. Edwards. Among them are Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s. The release said some of the Vermonters would be handing out free ice cream in New Hampshire on behalf of Mr. Edwards.
Edwards Calls for Quick Pullout of Troops Training Iraqi ForcesSIOUX CITY, Iowa — John Edwards says that if elected president he would withdraw the American troops who are training the Iraqi army and police as part of a broader plan to remove virtually all American forces within 10 months.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Iraq]Mr. Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina who is waging a populist campaign for the Democratic nomination, said that extending the American training effort in Iraq into the next presidency would require the deployment of tens of thousands of troops to provide logistical support and protect the advisers.
“To me, that is a continuation of the occupation of Iraq,” he said in a 40-minute interview on Sunday aboard his campaign bus as it rumbled through western Iowa.
After a Son’s Death, a Shared Mission in PoliticsThe campaign is a shared mission. Elizabeth Edwards is her husband’s most trusted adviser, his chief provocateur and his most popular surrogate, mobbed at campaign stops by people who admire her struggle against breast cancer and share stories of children lost. She describes the presidency as not just his quest, but hers, too.Permalink [Category: Edwards]Her visibility and their decision to continue with the campaign despite learning in March that her cancer was incurable has put the Edwardses’ marriage on display like no other in this presidential race. From afar, Americans have wondered at their bond or questioned their values, cheered them on or condemned them. Some people assumed they were in denial, others accused them of an ambition that knew no bounds.
But to the Edwardses, their decision simply showed a sense of purpose and a lesson learned a decade ago from crushing pain: If you can’t control life, you can at least embrace it more urgently.
Edwards Pledges Not to Hire LobbyistsWASHINGTON, Iowa (AP) -- Democrat John Edwards pledged Saturday to ban lobbyists from jobs in his administration if he is elected.Permalink [Category: Edwards]He said people who have lobbied for a foreign government or on behalf of a corporation will not be allowed to work in his White House. That would rule out a talent pool of Democrats with Capitol Hill or Clinton White House experience, many of whom are lobbying while their party is in exile from the White House. A new president must fill thousands of jobs in the White House and the Cabinet agencies.
Asked about cutting off this expertise, including groups that champion the same causes he does such as pro-labor groups, Edwards acknowledged he will have to make some judgments.
Edwards Gets Demerits for Tardiness on the TrailMANCHESTER, Iowa — It seemed as if everybody in this northeast Iowa town had squeezed into the Cedar Lodge Steakhouse one night this month for a John Edwards event.Permalink [Category: Edwards]Everyone, that is, except Mr. Edwards.
Forty-five minutes after he was scheduled to arrive, Mr. Edwards had yet to show up, and his campaign’s county coordinator, Judy McMahon, was onstage, gamely trying to keep the crowd occupied.
Change in tone may have hurt Edwards in IowaGUTHRIE CENTER, IOWA -- Four years ago John Edwards, a fresh-faced senator from North Carolina, blew through the Iowa countryside like a wind of populist change.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Iowa Caucus]Enough with the intraparty bickering, he told local Democrats in dining rooms, union halls and small-town diners, as he railed against "two Americas" increasingly divided by class.
The message struck a chord in Iowa. Edwards won 59% of the vote here in Guthrie County, an hour west of Des Moines, en route to a second-place statewide finish in the 2004 presidential caucuses -- a showing that helped him land his spot later that year as Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry's running mate.
Edwards Says He's Anti - Poverty CandidatePORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- Democrat John Edwards said Wednesday he's the presidential candidate who's made fighting poverty the cause of his life, trying to lay claim to the issue as the first voting of the 2008 campaign nears.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Poverty]The nation's millions of poor people have not been a major focus of the campaign. But with Edwards, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama in a tight race in leadoff Iowa, the others don't want to let the former North Carolina senator have the issue by himself.
Earlier Wednesday, Clinton said in Iowa that people -- she didn't name anyone -- ''talk about poverty in this campaign.'' But ''we,'' she said, referring to husband Bill Clinton's presidency -- ''lifted more people out of poverty during the 1990s than at any time in our history.''
Edwards can still win Iowa by wrapping up smaller, far-flung precinctsJohn Edwards was already on to the next thing. March 3, 2004, was a tough day for the rookie presidential candidate. He'd gone into the Super Tuesday primaries just a day earlier with momentum left over from a surprise second-place finish in Iowa and a victory in South Carolina, and hoped to win at least a few of the 10 states up for grabs that day. Instead, he'd failed to dominate any of them, not even Georgia. He was finished. He wasn't going to be president.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Iowa Caucus]At least not yet. After withdrawing from the race, Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, chatted informally with staffers and campaign reporters at a farewell dinner at Sullivan's Steakhouse in Raleigh, N.C. The two were exhausted but relaxed, no longer feeling they had to watch their every word. Everyone was wondering if he would run again. Edwards, perhaps not wanting to appear impolitic, didn't touch the subject. But Elizabeth was in a more expansive mood, and spoke for her husband. At the hotel two nights before, they had stayed in room 2008. Surely, she said, that wasn't a coincidence. Standing beside her, Edwards unleashed his Tom Cruise smile, his deep-blue eyes twinkling.
Edwards Offers Middle-Class PitchAMES, Iowa -- Democrat John Edwards sharpened his populist appeal to working families on Sunday, blaming corporate greed and political calculation for the economic and other problems affecting the middle class.Permalink [Category: Edwards]Edwards, on the seventh day of an eight-day bus tour of the state, spelled out the components of what he calls his "middle class rising agenda," including tax breaks for working families, tougher trade policies and investment in alternative energy. He has outlined much of that agenda before, but on Sunday he lumped the proposals together in a single package and combined it with some of the sharpest rhetoric of the campaign to date.
"Corporate greed and political calculation have taken over our government and sold out the middle class," Edwards said. "That is wrong. It doesn't say 'life, liberty and the pursuit of endless corporate profits' in the Declaration of Independence."
Edwards Tries to Assure Iowa's UndecidedINDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) -- Democrat John Edwards is using the final phase of his bid to win Iowa's caucuses to assure undecided voters that he has the tenacity for a campaign against the GOP presidential nominee.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Iowa Caucus]Along with wife, Elizabeth, Edwards turned to a new tactic Thursday night by meeting privately with a handful of undecided voters before delivering his stump speech at a larger campaign event.
''It is a fight,'' he told the small group sitting around him. ''That is a fundamental difference between me and some of the Democratic candidates.''
Avoiding the Run of the MillEarly in the morning, the young boy would wake up to find his dad bathed in the light from the television, a notepad on the table in front of him.John Edwards's father, Wallace, a small-town millworker with a high school education, would be taking math courses on instructional TV before reporting to work. He was always trying to better himself, to get ahead at a company that did not seem to respect, or advance, anyone without a college degree.
Undated black-and-white photo showing Sen. John Edwards, bottom right, and his sister Kathy sitting for a portrait with his parents Bobbie and Wallace. (AP)
Wallace's status at the textile company, where he worked for more than 30 years, cast a shadow on the Edwards home. The son knew that his knowledgeable, motivated father was routinely overlooked for supervisory positions. Even worse, he was often asked to train the people hired as his superiors. It was a painful lesson that John Edwards never forgot.
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Edwards Condemns NAFTADERRY, N.H. (AP) -- Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said Saturday he wants to replace the empty promise that NAFTA would create millions of jobs with his own promise to be a tough negotiator on trade deals.Permalink [Category: Economy, Edwards, Working Families]On the 14th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Edwards condemned the deal that lowered trade barriers between the United States and Canada and Mexico, arguing that it has paved the way for a series of deals that put the interests of multinational corporations ahead of working families.
''NAFTA was sold to the American people with promises that it would grow the economy and create millions of new jobs. But today, we know those promises were empty,'' he said. ''In all three countries, it has hurt workers and families while helping corporate insiders.''
The former North Carolina senator said more than 1 million American jobs have gone overseas because of NAFTA, and that up to 30 million more could follow in the next decade.
Edwards `more Passionate' This TimeDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- John Edwards says he's more seasoned in his second bid for the presidency -- understanding what a candidate should and shouldn't do -- yet more passionate at the same time about the causes that drive him.In 2004, Edwards was relentlessly upbeat and insisted he wouldn't criticize his rivals, and that brought him a surprising second-place showing in Iowa and helped boost him onto the national ticket. This time, some view him as more confrontational.
''I am exactly the same person driven by exactly the same things,'' Edwards said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press. But he pointed to at least one difference. ''There is a depth and a seasoning that makes me stronger and more passionate,'' he said. ''It means I am enjoying myself.''
Edwards noted that most surveys showed him trailing badly only a few weeks before the caucuses in the last election cycle, and he predicted the same kind of big movement in the closing weeks this time.
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Who will John Edwards hurt worse, Hillary or Obama?NASHUA, N.H. -- In the back of a crowded room at Daniel Webster College here, Joe Trippi, John Edwards' campaign manager, watches closely as his candidate delivers a series of passionately populist orations, summed up by his declaration that "the few are controlling this democracy for the many."Next to Trippi, his colleague Glen Pearcy tends a camera recording every word that the tie-less, bluejeans-clad Edwards speaks for possible use in future television commercials. Standing before a large American flag, the former North Carolina senator insists that the country shouldn't "trade a crowd of corporate Republicans for a crowd of corporate Democrats."
As the news about the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination focuses on the increasingly bitter confrontation between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Edwards is fighting for survival. He knows his fate hinges on a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses that are now less than a month away. He will be out of the race if he runs third.
Heavy doubt for Edwards' big promisesIn Iowa, he is asked whether it is 'credible' for him to say he'd strip healthcare from members of Congress if they don't vote for universal coverage.Permalink [Category: Edwards]ALGONA, IOWA -- John Edwards, who has pledged that as president he would strip health coverage from congressional members if they did not adopt universal healthcare, faced sharp voter skepticism Sunday over whether he could achieve that and other campaign goals.
Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, acknowledged that he could not do it unilaterally and would have to use political pressure to force Congress to act. It could be done by submitting a bill forcing members to either vote for universal healthcare or lose their own coverage -- a measure that would target Republicans because, he said, all Democrats would support it.
Abundance of Warmth At Democratic ForumDES MOINES, Dec. 1 -- Could former senator John Edwards and Sen. Barack Obama be considering a truce?
For a brief moment Saturday night, that unlikely prospect suddenly appeared possible. Democratic presidential candidates had gathered here for the Brown and Black Forum, a panel on minority issues, and during a question-and-answer period, Edwards (N.C.) was given an opportunity to aim a question at any of his rivals.Rather than hit Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) with a tough challenge, Edwards lobbed something of a softball to Obama: Would the senator from Illinois, he asked, join him in pushing to raise the minimum wage to $9.50?
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A Battle-Scarred Edwards, Emerging a FighterMILFORD, N.H. — He has beat his Diet Coke addiction — “too much caffeine.” He no longer shrinks from foreign policy talk and salts his speeches with lines like, “I saw a piece recently in the Guardian newspaper, a British newspaper.” And where he once meandered from topic to topic, the John Edwards of today tries to keep it concise.“Because I want to take your questions, I am not talking about what I think is a moral crisis, which is climate change,” he told an audience at Dartmouth College in November. “I hope somebody will ask me about it. I think it’s a huge issue facing the world. I am not talking about poverty, which is my personal passion.”
Then it’s on to Iraq and Iran.
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Edwards Supports Striking WritersNEW YORK (AP) -- Democrat John Edwards voiced his support Tuesday for striking television writers, telling a boisterous rally that he would work to protect the rights of union members if elected president next year.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Labor]''Stay strong, stay together,'' Edwards implored members of the Writers Guild of America, whose strike has entered its fourth week. ''It's about making sure these big corporations, these big media conglomerates don't step on your rights -- that you have a real opportunity to share in the work that you've been producing.''
The union and Hollywood studios were expected to resume negotiations in Hollywood Tuesday. Writers have been on strike since Nov. 5 over payment for television shows streamed over the Internet, claiming they are entitled to a share of the revenue generated online.
More on the Edwards-Kerry riftThe final sentences in today's New York Times story say it all about the dysfunctional pairing of John Kerry and John Edwards as the 2004 Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees. Indeed, for those too busy preparing for holiday gatherings to read the lengthy piece -- or disinclined to digest more detail about a match we already knew didn't work out -- we'll cut to the telling lines:Permalink [Category: Edwards, Kerry]"In March (of this year), Mr. Kerry telephoned the Edwardses after Mr. Edwards announced that his wife’s cancer had returned and was incurable, and that he was still running for president. A spokesman for Mr. Kerry said they had had a nice conversation. A spokesman for Mr. Edwards, however, said Mr. Kerry had spoken only with Elizabeth."
Which got us to thinking ... although no one seems to be beating on Kerry's door for an endorsement, if he were to decide to make a pick before his party's choice is obvious, it clearly won't be his onetime running mate.
For Edwards, a Relationship That Never Quite FitJohn Edwards, accepting his party’s nomination for vice president, roused a cheering crowd at the 2004 Democratic convention with the kind of buoyant refrain that had become his trademark: “Hope is on the way.”Permalink [Category: Edwards, Kerry]The next night, wanting to give the American people something more tangible, John Kerry offered his own pledge, one intended as the ticket’s new slogan: “Help is on the way.”
But Mr. Edwards did not want to say it.
So the running mates set off across the country together with different messages, sometimes delivered at the same rally: Mr. Kerry leading the crowd in chants for “help,” Mr. Edwards for “hope.” The campaign printed two sets of signs. By November, the disagreement had been so institutionalized that campaign workers handed out fans with both messages, on flip sides.
Trailing his rivals, Edwards has injected urgency into his bid.There are some things about John Edwards that haven't changed in the four years since he last ran for president. The man who was once featured in People's "Sexiest Man Alive" issue still has that glossy, immaculate head of hair. His Tom Cruise megasmile is still disarming. And if the reaction from a crowd packed into a town hall in Iowa last week is any indication, Edwards's silky Southern drawl can still find its target. "Oh," one elderly woman whispered after the former senator shook her hand. "He is a handsome boy."Permalink [Category: Edwards]Edwards is even sounding the same "two Americas" theme he did last time around—that the rich get richer while the poor and middle class get the shaft. But heading into the primaries—and trailing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in national polls and the money chase—there is an edge, and urgency, to Edwards that wasn't there in 2004. The man who once fashioned himself as a sunny populist who refused to disparage fellow Democrats—if it's attack politics you're looking for, he said in 2004, "I'm not your guy"—now excoriates Clinton at every opportunity.
For Democrats, Iowa Still Up for GrabsThe top three Democratic presidential contenders remain locked in a close battle in Iowa, with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) seeing her advantages diminish on key issues, including the questions of experience and which candidate is best prepared to handle the war in Iraq, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) draws support from 30 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa, compared with 26 percent for Clinton and 22 percent for former senator John Edwards (N.C.). New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson received 11 percent. The results are only marginally different from a Post-ABC poll in late July, but in a state likely to set the tone for the rest of the nominating process, there are significant signs of progress for Obama -- and harbingers of concern for Clinton.
The factors that have made Clinton the clear national front-runner -- including her overwhelming leads on the issues of the Iraq war and health care, a widespread sense that she is the Democrats' most electable candidate, and her strong support among women -- do not appear to be translating on the ground in Iowa, where campaigning is already fierce and television ads have been running for months.
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Edwards Is First Dem to Go on TV in S.C.On the same day that his campaign started airing a new TV ad in Iowa, John Edwards becomes the first Democratic presidential contender to unveil a TV ad targeting South Carolina primary voters.Permalink [Category: Ads, Edwards, South Carolina Primary, Television]And he takes full advantage of his home field advantage.
"America's Jobs and America's Workers" is a 30-second spot, filmed at the Robbins, S.C., mill where Edwards and his father once worked.
"For too many, it's just about profits and greed. They're wrong. It's about the dignity of the job, and doing what's right for America's workers," Edwards says.
Dodd: 'Not the Same John Edwards'ABC News' Rick Klein and Raelyn Johnson Report: Sen. Chris Dodd is blasting former senator John Edwards for refusing to commit to supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton if she wins the Democratic nomination, as Dodd steps up an increasingly fierce critique of his Democratic rivals.Permalink [Category: Dodd, Edwards, Hillary Clinton Archive]"I am surprised at just how angry John has become. This is not the same John Edwards I once knew," Dodd, D-Conn., said in a statement released by his campaign Tuesday. "Of course, we should all come together to support the nominee. I wonder which of the Republicans John prefers to Hillary?"
In an interview with The New York Times, Edwards, D-N.C., declined to say that he would definitely support Clinton if she wins the nominatino. "I'm not willing to talk about that at this point," he said.
For Edwards, a Man on the Run, Time Is No Ally....With his campaign sustained by public financing, Mr. Edwards has only recently bought television time for advertising, and so has been racing from one gathering of potential voters to the next.Permalink [Category: Edwards]On relentless tours in Iowa, New Hampshire and other states, the campaign is banking on Mr. Edwards to win over voters and caucusgoers in person, giving the campaign a focus that has sharpened in recent weeks as he tries to convince them he is the best choice for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Like Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, he has stepped up his criticisms of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has gained in state polls. There is urgency even in his news releases, which remind readers of the number of trips he has already made, or of the time remaining in the countdown to the caucuses.
Edwards Unveil Plan for Veterans With PTSDPLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- Presidential contender John Edwards is introducing a $400 million plan Monday to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, including those recently returned from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Health Care, Military]Under Edwards' plan, veterans could seek counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder outside the Veterans Health Administration system; the number of counselors would increase; and family members would be employed to identify cases of PTSD.
Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat, was scheduled to introduce the five-point plan during a speech at New Hampshire's Plymouth State University.
''I strongly believe we must restore the sacred contract we have with our veterans and their families, and that we must begin by reforming our system for treating PTSD. We also must act to remove the stigma from this disorder,'' Edwards said in prepared remarks his campaign provided to The Associated Press. ''Warriors should never be ashamed to deal with the personal consequences of war.''
Edwards Says His Message Is ClearDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Democrat John Edwards said Sunday that voters expect the presidential candidates ''to stand in front of them and answer their hard questions,'' not planted ones.Permalink [Category: Edwards]Edwards' reference was to a recent admission by rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign that an aide gave a question to a Grinnell College student, who was then called on to ask it a recent event in Iowa.
''What George Bush does is plant questions and exclude people from events and I don't think that's what Democrats want to see,'' he told reporters after a Veterans Day speech.
Edwards said people attending campaign events in states that vote early, like Iowa, ''expect you to stand in front of them and answer their hard questions, and they expect it to be an honest process.''
Combat Missions? Clinton, Edwards SparWASHINGTON (AP) -- Just what does it mean to end combat missions in Iraq? Democrats John Edwards and Hillary Rodham Clinton disagree.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Hillary Clinton Archive, Iraq]Edwards has been criticizing Clinton for her plan to continue combat missions against al-Qaida in Iraq. His campaign says that would be a continuation of what it calls the ''U.S. occupation'' that he will end if elected president.
Edwards says that doesn't mean he'll stop fighting against terrorists in Iraq. The difference, he told The Boston Globe in an article published Thursday, is that his counterterrorism missions would be based in Kuwait and elsewhere in the Middle East and conduct quick ''expeditions'' into Iraq.
Clinton's campaign says either way, sending troops to fight would be a combat mission in Iraq.
Edwards immigration stand muddled as HRC'sFormer Senator John Edwards (N.C.) has been accusing his rival Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) of double-talk for a week, since she refused to say clearly whether illegal immigrants should get driver's licenses – but his own position on the issue is also incoherent, experts say.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Hillary Clinton Archive, Immigration]Immigration policy experts on both sides of the debate say they're puzzled by Edwards’ stance, which appears to hinge on blurring the distinction between state and federal powers.
"He supports licenses as part of a path to citizenship. He doesn't support the Spitzer plan because it doesn't include a path to citizenship," said Edwards' deputy campaign manager Jonathan Prince in an e-mail referring to the New York governor’s plan that prompted the question that flummoxed Clinton.
Edwards Says Clinton Too Vague on WarNEWMARKET, N.H. (AP) -- John Edwards says it's past time for his Democratic presidential rivals -- Hillary Rodham Clinton in particular -- to spell out just what they would do about Iraq.Permalink [Category: Edwards, Hillary Clinton Archive, Iraq]Edwards, speaking to voters in a New Hampshire music hall Tuesday, said his rivals aren't being honest about Iraq and should have to say whether they would continue combat missions and how soon they would bring all U.S. troops home.
''If you believe what Senator Clinton believes, then you can support her,'' Edwards said. ''But if you believe that we need to bring this war to an end by getting all combat troops out and ending combat missions in Iraq, that is what I will do as president of the United States.''
Edwards Talks Education in IowaCEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) -- Democrat John Edwards on Sunday said there are two public school systems in America -- one that's failing low-income students and the other catering to wealthier kids.Permalink [Category: Education, Edwards]''Making sure that our schools work, and that they are not segregated based on race or economics, is a huge moral responsibility for the president of the United States,'' Edwards told a crowd of hundreds at the University of Northern Iowa during a presidential forum on education.
Edwards said the Bush administration has been ''extraordinarily shortsighted'' when it comes to making students globally competitive, slashing aid to students and funding to schools.
''If you just sort of watch the underbelly of the way the administration manages the federal budget, they are just constantly cutting away from those things,'' he said.
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