Sounds like Edwards wants to be the U.S. version of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. He must make the Loons salivate with glee.

Edwards is consistent, open and aboveboard in his hatreds.

Edwards just got the kiss from Ralph Nader, old Dracula himself. The effect of that kiss is that Edwards will be condemned to be a reformer forever, a gadfly forever, and a candidate every four years forever. That'll show you what some endorsements will do for you. For all their good intentions reformers always have to be reformers. It's like being a progressive. You cannot ever reach an end point as a progressive. You continue to talk reform and sound more and more preachy. Preachy people have been known to loose the hearts and minds of those they preachc to. This is Edwards plight. The more you listen to him the more he sounds and looks like Don Quixote pursuing an impossible dream.

I didn't realize that Hugo Chavez was running for President here.

Hey Edwards. Keep railing against "big corporations" They're only where people.....you know.... work and make a living. Who else is going to generate revenue for the govt. to conduct repeatedly failed social experiments, and Woodstock museams?

Hey....good idea to go after "them"

The repulsively idiotic rightwing nonsense these posters use to smear Edwards is all culled from their moronic, low-brow, lying talk radio.

They think Cigna...who just killed that 17year old girl whose father thought she was insured merely because he'd been paying premiums for all those years....these rightwingers think this same Cigna....is their FRIEND!

Brilliant men.

But Hannity and Limbaugh and Glenn Beck tell them Edwards is Chavez and Cigna is Jesus, so they post this stupidity.

I laugh a these guys, and Iowa will too!

See you boys at the gun show.

Great Murrikans...all of ya.

Well, if idiots like Lil' Johnny, RNC Bruce, JD, Limpbaugh and Insanity hate Edwards, so much the better.

well weinerbrain, you are on record as hating everything American. I'm sure you will be much happier in Venezuala.

Jay, I don't approve of Cigna's actions, but if you think life is better where the government runs your life, then please join weinerbrain on his trek to Venezuala or China for that matter.

Just wondering - why would personal invective prove preferable to (my unposted but) somewhat reasonable argument, as content? Or even acceptable? Just wondering how that Jonh D. retort to 'weinerbrain" made the grade? Or is relevant to the topic?

Since my url is on record with that attempted post, you may reply there if you like.

well weinerbrain, you are on record as hating everything American. I'm sure you will be much happier in Venezuala.

JohnD, you're ALSO on record for prodigious hate-mongering. The fact that you then state that hate nor love have anything to do with it can't be allowed for you if you don't allow it for anyone else, so why don't YOU take YOUR bad back, fat keester, and withered moosh to Siberia, where your personality will be more comfortable (since Berlin of 1934 is no longer available, the more unfortunate for you)?

Go on --- GIT!!!

"They think Cigna...who just killed that 17year old girl "

Yeah, Cigna killed her Jay. If that is the case, how many have they saved?

Edwards has you right where he wants you Jay.

Hey, let's play the "in group, out group" game with John Edwards!

Woo Hoo!

Edwards is the best choice among all the major Presidential candidates for working Americans. He has real passion for justice and real compassion for the poor.

From the smears posted by Right Wing corporatists above, I can see the Republican Right is truly frightened of Edwards. Edwards has an FDR like populist appeal that elitist will always hate and fear.

Sincerely,

Stephen Crockett

co-host, Democratic Talk Radio

John Edwards (although not the Baptist) is preaching the gospel. It is too bad that Corporate Media has succeeded in ignoring both the man and the message, in favor of "cute" idiocy about the price of a haircut.

It is also too bad that some have been so blinded by those Corporate Media distractions that they can no longer see the difference between Edwards' excoriating the boundless greed emanating from this unregulated Corporate monster, with the lies and thefts attendant upon that greed; and the Repugnant insistence that Edwards has launched a ruthless attack upon the lawful conduct of business in our nation.

He has not; but rather, only suggests a reinstatement of the concept of law and regulation for even Corporations.

Like it or not, we're in a situation which can be described as "corporatist capitalism" versus "American democracy". John Edwards is on the 'living people' side of this equation rather than the 're-animated corporate machine' side, as am I.

I work for the Government - the Government of the State of Texas. I take offense to those that lament the notion of 'The Government' running their lives. Legislators, democratically elected by people voting, decide by consensus what I do in my job. It is our job to serve your interests. If we screw it up, the legislators can get voted out of office, and my job can change. By contrast, a Corporation does what it does for reasons of profit. It is their job to get you to take less for more. And you really have much less control over what they do.

It's unbelievable to me that some big corporations buy out Government and journalism, and then turn the citizens against their democratically elected government, making more profit in the process.

Not all corporations are bad, but they do need to be regulated, because democracy is an impediment to profit for them, and some of them will inevitably try to destroy it. Competition (a.k.a. the free market) is also an impediment to profit for them, and many times they try to destroy that as well. It's interesting that some would trust the opinion of a commentator, who makes about 100 times their salary, on a network owned by a huge corporation to tell them who the good guys and who the bad guys are.

There is a lot of middle ground between what we have now and Soviet-style government. Chavez regulates corporations - particularly oil corporations - that's why a lot of corporations hate him and a lot of people love him. Did you know that gas costs 30 cents a gallon in Venezuela?

All democracies, including the U.S., regulate corporations. If they didn't, they wouldn't be a democracy for long.

I can comprehend even as I am repulsed by the fetishism of organized money on the part of people who run the world on the basis of their property....what I cannot fathom is the disposition of people who are forced to make a living selling their labor, parroting this organized money line of bull !

They are eager DUPES...kept ignorant by the low-brow rightwing talk radio which pays propagandists 30 million dillars a year to keep the lambs in line to the slaughter.

So keep watching truck demolition, swilling cheap beer, eating commercial hot dogs full of poison, working for nothing, and keep believing your Lord wants this for you.

HAHAHAHHAAHAHAA.....

What are corporatists?

People that have no problem with groups like Trial Lawyers Associations influencing govt.?

First they came for the Health Care providers, I didn't care because I'm not sick.
Then they came for the big oil companies, but I didn't care because I don't drive.

Next they came after the eevil capitalists who make money off people's backs and counting it by their swimming pools. I didn't care, because I didn't have a pool.

Finally they came for anyone who makes an "obscene" profit.

It didn't matter, becuase no one was making anything anymore becuase their was no incentive to.

Angry leftists are funny.

The most prescient comment in the last forty years came from a hard core republican " beware the military-industrial complex" (Dwight D Eisenhower) As we have sown, so now we shall reap. America is now in very deep trouble. The ideological administration of Bush has combined religious fervor with neocon visions of world domination by control of energy into a course that will end the promise of what is our constitution. Never in our history has there been such a threat to the vision of our founders. Please, America!! Wake up!! The fall of Rome will seem a minor footnote to history compared to what is about to happen to the greatest nation in the history of our civilization. Sound hysterical?? I don't think so. Will someone please return us to rational thinking about our place in the world and our influence over the future of this planet.

What do you mean "comment text is required" I commented on a posted text.

"beware the military-industrial complex"

That's not at all what he said. Take off your left wing glasses and re read it.

He said never again can we not be without it, because it helped us beat the Nazi'a and the Japanese.

Also helped prevent all out war with the Soviets.

Thanks MIC!