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- 2008
Election - "Democrat
Edwards exits presidential race: Clinton, Obama praise
ex-rival, who refrains from endorsing one or other." ... "[2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Democrat John Edwards bowed out of the
race for the White House on Wednesday, saying it was time to step aside
“so that history can blaze its path” in a campaign now left to [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Hillary Rodham Clinton and [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama." ... ""It is time for
me to step aside," said Edwards, ending his second campaign in a hurricane-ravaged
section of New Orleans [Louisiana] where he began it more than a year ago.
“With our convictions and a little backbone we will take back the White
House in November.”" ... "Edwards said Clinton and Obama had both pledged
that “they will make ending poverty central to their campaign for the presidency.”"
... "“This is the cause of my life and I now have their commitment to engage
in this cause,” he said before a small group of supporters. He was joined
by his wife Elizabeth and his three children, Cate, Emma Claire and Jack."
... "Edwards said that on his way to make his campaign-ending statement,
he drove by a highway underpass where several homeless people live. He
stopped to talk, he said, and as he was leaving, one of them asked him
never to forget them and their plight." ... "“Well I say to her and I say
to all those who are struggling in this country, we will never forget you.
We will fight for you. We will stand up for you,” he said, pledging to
continue his campaign-long effort to end what he frequently said was “two
Americas,” one for the powerful, the other for the rest." ... "Edwards
burst out of the starting gate with a flurry of progressive policy ideas
— he was the first to offer a plan for universal health care, the first
to call on Congress to pull funding for the [Iraq] war, and he led the
charge that lobbyists have too much power in Washington and need to be
reigned in." (1, 2)
-AP via -MSNBC
US
- Iraq
- Military
- "US
military deaths in Iraq at 3,931." ... "As of Wednesday,
Jan. 23, 2008, at least 3,931 members of the U.S. military have died since
the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated
Press count." -AP
via -Yahoo
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- US
- "Iraq's
New Law on Ex-Baathists Could Bring Another Purge."
... "Maj. Gen. [Major General] Hussein al-Awadi, a former official in Saddam
Hussein's Baath Party, became the commander of the Iraqi National Police
despite a 2003 law barring the party from government." ... "But now, under
new legislation promoted as way to return former Baathists to public life,
the 56-year-old and thousands like him could be forced out of jobs they
have been allowed to hold, according to Iraqi lawmakers and the government
agency that oversees ex-Baathists." ... ""This new law is very confusing,"
Awadi said. "I don't really know what it means for me."" ... "He is not
alone. More than a dozen Iraqi lawmakers, U.S. [United States] officials
and former Baathists here and in exile expressed concern in interviews
that the law could set off a new purge of ex-Baathists, the opposite of
U.S. hopes for the legislation. " ... "The very first decree of the U.S.-led
occupation government was to disband the Baath Party and purge its members
from the government. Issued May 16, 2003, Coalition Provisional Authority
Order No. 1 also banned the top four ranks of the Baath Party from public-sector
jobs." ... "U.S. officials believed the order would remove about 20,000
Baathists, or 1 percent of the 2 million people in Iraq said to be party
members, according to L. Paul Bremer, then the occupation administrator."
... "He blamed the Iraqi politicians who oversaw the de-Baathification
process in mid-2003 for going beyond the intention of the order and purging
thousands of additional people, including about 11,000 teachers." ... "The
Iraqis tell a different story. According to Ali Faisal al-Lami, executive
director of the de-Baathification commission, Bremer's order pushed 140,000
Iraqis out of their jobs." (1, 2,
3,
4)
-By Amit R. Paley and Joshua Partlow
-WashingtonPost
John
Edwards
- Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama
- Money
- 
Drug
- 2008
Election - People
- "Edwards
ad hits rivals on special interests." ... "[2008
Election Democratic Presidential Candidate John Edwards new South Carolina
TV ad referring to 2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidates Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama:] "One gets more money than anyone from drug companies.
The other one takes more money than anyone from Washington lobbyists,"
the narrator says as photos of Clinton and Obama appear on the screen."
... ""What’s happened to the Democratic Party? Whatever happened to the
party of the people? Good question," the narrator continues, as a montage
of Edwards on the campaign trail appears. "The only one who’s never taken
a dime from PACs or Washington lobbyists, who knows we’ve been ignored
too long, who knows that rebuilding the middle class is more important
than politics? Our John Edwards. The only one."" -By
Foon Rhee -BostonGlobe
John
Edwards
- Justice
- Health-Care
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Environment
- Economic
- Poverty
- People
- Political
- History
- 2008
Election - "Martin
L. King, III [eldest son of Martin Luther King] letter to The Honorable
John E. Edwards. [PDF]" ... "Dear Senator Edwards:"
[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate John Edwards] ... "It
was good meeting with you yesterday and discussing my father’s legacy.
On the day when the nation will honor my father, I wanted to follow up
with a personal note." ... "There has been, and will continue to be, a
lot of back and forth in the political arena over my father’s legacy.
It is a commentary on the breadth and depth of his impact that so many
people want to claim his legacy. I am concerned that we do not blur
the lines and obscure the truth about what he stood for: speaking up for
justice for those who have no voice." ... "I appreciate that on the major
issues of health care, the environment, and the economy, you have framed
the issues for what they are - a struggle for justice. And, you have
almost single-handedly made poverty an issue in this [2008] election."
... "You know as well as anyone that the 37 million people living in poverty
have no voice in our system. They don’t have lobbyists in Washington
and they don’t get to go to lunch with members of Congress. Speaking
up for them is not politically convenient. But, it is the right thing
to do." ... "I am disturbed by how little attention the topic of economic
justice has received during this campaign. I want to challenge all
candidates to follow your lead, and speak up loudly and forcefully on the
issue of economic justice in America." ... "From our conversation yesterday,
I know this is personal for you. I know you know what it means to
come from nothing. I know you know what it means to get the opportunities
you need to build a better life. And, I know you know that injustice is
alive and well in America, because millions of people will never get the
same opportunities you had." ... "I believe that now, more than ever, we
need a leader who wakes up every morning with the knowledge of that injustice
in the forefront of their minds, and who knows that when we commit ourselves
to a cause as a nation, we can make major strides in our own lifetimes.
My father was not driven by an illusory vision of a perfect society.
He was driven by the certain knowledge that when people of good faith and
strong principles commit to making things better, we can change hearts,
we can change minds, and we can change lives." ... "So, I urge you: keep
going. Ignore the pundits, who think this is a horserace, not a fight
for justice. My dad was a fighter. As a friend and a
believer in my father’s words that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere, I say to you: keep going. Keep fighting. My father
would be proud." -By Martin L. King, III
via -JohnEdwards.com
John
Edwards
- Education
- Health
Care - Working
- People
- Money
- 2008
Election - 
California
- "With
dig at Schwarzenegger, John Edwards campaigns in Calif.."
... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Edwards accused
[Republican California Governor] Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday of
trying to gut education and health care programs at a campaign rally where
he also promised to usher in a new era of prosperity for working-class
America." ... "The Democratic presidential candidate expressed disbelief
that the Republican governor was taking aim at schools and the sick when
more investment is needed, not less. Schwarzenegger's spending blueprint
calls for 10 percent cuts to most state agencies and would slash classroom
funding by hundreds of dollars per student." ... ""The last thing that
needs to happen ... is to have any of the funding that is necessary to
provide health care for Californians cut. That funding needs to be there,"
Edwards said." ... ""We should not be cutting funding for K-through-12
education," he added. "Who in the world in America thinks we have too much
money invested in public education? This makes absolutely no sense."" -By
Michael R. Blood -AP
via -SFGate.com
John
Edwards
- Barack
Obama
- Hillary
Clinton
- 2008
Election - Working
- People
- History
- Companies
- Environment
- Law
- 
Nevada
- "Edwards
Jabs Obama and Clinton." ... "[2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate] John Edwards ripped [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate] Barack Obama [made in Nevada] for praising the way [Republican
President] Ronald Reagan brought about change when he was President of
the United States." ... "“When you think about what Ronald Reagan did to
the American people, to the middle class to the working people,” said Edwards."
... "“He was openly – openly – intolerant of unions and the right to organize.
He openly fought against the union and the organized labor movement in
this country. He openly did extraordinary damage to the middle class and
working people, created a tax structure that favored the very wealthiest
Americans and caused the middle class and working people to struggle every
single day. The destruction of the environment, you know, eliminating regulation
of companies that were polluting and doing extraordinary damage to the
environment.”" ... "“I can promise you this: this president will never
use Ronald Reagan as an example for change.”" ... "Edwards also took another
shot at Obama earlier in his speech:" ... "“There’s this back and forth
that’s been going over the last 24 hours or so between Senator Clinton
and Senator Obama, with Senator Clinton saying what we need in a president
is somebody who knows how to run the bureaucracy, who knows how to manage,
somebody who knows how to shuffle the papers around and Senator Obama saying
no, what we really need is a President of the United States who knows how
to give a good speech,” said Edwards. “Here’s what I think, I think what
we need in the next President of the United States is somebody with some
guts and fight and determination.["]" -By Aaron Lewis
-CBSNews
John
Edwards
- Peoples
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Families
- Lawyer
- Corporate
- Government
- Drug
Companies - Health
Care - 2008
Election - "Corporate
elite fear candidate Edwards." ... "Ask corporate
lobbyists which presidential contender is most feared by their clients
and the answer is almost always the same -- [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate] Democrat John Edwards." ... "His stump speeches are peppered
with attacks on "corporate greed" and warnings of "the destruction of the
middle class."" ... "He accuses lobbyists of "corrupting the government"
and says Americans lack universal health care because of "drug companies,
insurance companies and their lobbyists."" ... "An Edwards campaign spokesman
said on Thursday that inside-the-Beltway operatives who fight to defend
the powerful and the privileged should be afraid." ... ""The lobbyists
and special interests who abuse the system in Washington have good reason
to fear John Edwards." ... ""Once he is president, the interests of middle
class families will never again take a back seat to corporate greed in
Washington," said campaign spokesman Eric Schultz." ... "Open attacks on
the business elite are seldom heard from mainstream White House candidates
in America, despite skyrocketing CEO pay, rising income inequality, and
a torrent of scandals in corporate boardrooms and on Wall Street." (1,
2,
3)
-By Kevin Drawbaugh with contributions by John Wallace
-Reuters
US
- Iraq
- Military
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World
- Health
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Science
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Accounting
- "Study:
151,000 Iraqis died in 3 years after U.S. invasion."
... "About 151,000 Iraqis died from violence in the three years after the
United States invaded, concludes the best effort yet to count deaths —
one that still may not settle the fierce debate over the war's true toll
on civilians and others." ... "The estimate comes from projections by the
World Health Organization and the Iraqi government, based on door-to-door
surveys of nearly 10,000 households. Experts called it the largest and
most scientific study of the Iraqi death toll since the war began." ...
"Its bottom line is far lower than the 600,000 deaths reported in an earlier
study but higher than numbers from other groups tracking the count." ...
"The new estimate covers a period from the start of the war in March 2003
through June 2006. It closely mirrors the tally Iraq's health minister
gave in late 2006, based on 100 bodies a day arriving at morgues and hospitals."
... "Les Roberts, a Columbia University epidemiologist involved in an even
earlier survey in 2004 when he was at Johns Hopkins, believes the new toll
is too low." ... ""This is consistent with family members not wanting to
tell the government about violent deaths," he said."
-AP via -USATODAY
John
Edwards
- Military
- Homeless
- Poverty
- Accounting
- Language
- 2008
Election - Politics
- "Edwards
on Veterans: It Checks Out." ... "Several readers
have asked us to check this surprising statistic, often used by [2008 Election
Democratid Presidential Candidate John] Edwards. The language may be overly
dramatic, but the figure is an official one, from the Department of Veterans
Affairs. The department believes that one-third of the adult homeless population
of the United States "have served their country in the Armed Services."
A posting on the department Web site says that about 195,000 veterans are
"homeless on any given night" and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness
at some point during the course of a year."
-WashingtonPost
John
Edwards
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New
Hampshire - 
Iowa
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North
Carolina - California
- Teenager
- Health
- Company- Drug
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Christmas
- Working
- People
- 2008
Election - "Underdog
Edwards says he won't give up the fight for the White House."
... "The former senator from North Carolina [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate John Edwards] sought to bring added emotional wallop to his message
before Tuesday's primary by campaigning with the family of a Northridge
[California] teenager who died after her insurance company delayed approval
for a liver transplant." ... "The newest participants in the Edwards campaign
were the Sarkisyans of the San Fernando Valley [California], whose 17-year-old
daughter, Nataline, died just before Christmas of complications from leukemia.
After much debate, the family's insurance company had approved a liver
transplant, but she died hours later." ... ""When I talk about what insurance
companies and drug companies are doing to America, this is what I mean,"
Edwards said to a crowd of about 500 in Manchester [New Hampshire], where
some were moved to tears by the family's story. "This has real effects
on real people's lives."" ... "Grigor Sarkisyan told the audience how he
had promised to buy his daughter a white car after she got out of the hospital,
but had to buy a white coffin instead. He said he thought he had done everything
he was supposed to as a father: working hard, supporting his family and
buying health insurance he thought would take care of them if they got
sick." ... "His wife, Hilda Sarkisyan, had heard Edwards' speech Thursday
after his second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and called the candidate's
campaign. The family arrived in New Hampshire on Sunday morning." ... "The
couple urged voters to support Edwards, saying he is the lone candidate
who will fight for Americans against such powerful interests as insurance
companies." ... ""They cannot tell us who's going to live and who's going
to die," Hilda Sarkisyan said." -By Seema Mehta and
James Rainey -LAtimes
John
Edwards
- Barack
Obama
- Politics
- 2008
Election - 2004
Election - Iowa
- New
Hampshire - Working
- People
- Investment
- Civil
Rights - Lawyer
- Drug
- 
Oil
- "Obama
borrows from Edwards." ... "After beating [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Edwards in Iowa on Thursday, [2008
Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama has decided to
join him -- repeatedly poaching his opponent's themes, language, and even
jokes." ... ""We shouldn't just be respecting wealth in this country --
we should be respecting work," Obama told an overflow crowd in a [New Hampshire]
high-school gym today." ... "Edwards's 2004 presidential campaign was centered
around the idea that the [Republican President] Bush administration had
launched a "war on work" through tax cuts that offer incentives for investment
over labor. "Hard work should be valued in this country, so we're going
to reward work, not just wealth," Edwards said in accepting his party’s
vice-presidential nomination at the Democratic’ convention in Boston. In
this campaign, he has sharpened his populist rhetoric, railing against
greedy corporate CEOs who are waging war on working people and the middle
class." ... "Since arriving in New Hampshire Friday, Obama has borrowed
Edwards's favorite verb by bragging that he had "fought" as a community
organizer and civil rights lawyer, and conceding that "insurance companies
and drug companies will not give up their profits" -- which Edwards asserts
repeatedly to ridicule Obama's talk of conciliation. Obama repeatedly invoked
those interests, as well as "big oil and big insurance," common villains
in Edwards speeches." -By Sasha Issenberg with contributions
by Foon Rhee -Boston/Globe
Iowa
- People
- History
- 2008
Election - "CAUCUS
'08: Dems outnumber GOP caucus-goers nearly 2-1."
... "Iowa Democrats outnumbered their Republican counterparts by an almost
two-to-one margin at Thursday’s caucuses, wowing party officials who credited
the tremendous showing to the strength of their party’s candidates and
participants’ frustration with the [Republican President] Bush administration."
... "“The big news tonight is the turnout,” Democratic National Committee
Chairman Howard Dean said in an interview on MSNBC." ... "Statewide, more
than 236,000 Democrats caucused. The figure that shatters the previous
party’s record headcount of 124,000 four years ago." ... "That Iowa Democrats
went to the polls in unprecedented droves indicates they’re hungry to turn
the page on the [Republican President] Bush administration, said Dean,
a 2004 Democratic presidential candidate." ... "Independent voters, who
could participate in the caucus by declaring a party affiliation at their
precinct, also may have played a role in the Democrats’ turnout surge."
... "“A big proportion of those numbers were first-time registers and independents,”
[Iowa Democratic Senator] Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said. “This means that
a lot of independents are moving to the Democratic Party.“" ... "Republicans
also attracted an unprecedented volume, bringing 120,000 Iowans to their
precincts after an eight-year caucus respite because President George W.
Bush ran unopposed in 2004. The GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] had
drawn about 87,000 participants in 2000." -By Whitney
Woodward -SiouxCityJournal.com
Barack
Obama
- John
Edwards
- Hillary
Clinton
- Iowa
-Political
- Generation
- 
Senior
- People
- 2008
Election - "Why
Obama Won." ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate] Barack Obama's victory in the Iowa caucuses was driven by his
support from a new political generation, according to a CBS News entrance
poll of Democratic caucus-goers." ... "In a night of record turnout for
the Democratic caucuses, Obama and his message of change captured the vote
of the first-time caucus-goers, as well as the votes of young people and
political independents." ... "In contrast to Obama's strong support among
the young, [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate John] Edwards
and [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary] Clinton appealed
to older voters. Edwards won Baby Boomers with 31 percent, to 28 percent
for Clinton and 27 percent for Obama. Clinton handily won the senior vote
with 45 percent of those 65 and older, compared to 22 percent and 18 percent
for Edwards and Obama respectively." ... "Edwards' strong suit was his
ability to empathize with people. Nineteen percent of attendees said having
a candidate who cared about people like them was their most important character
consideration, and 44 percent of them supported Edwards." -By
Monika L. McDermott -CBSNews
John
Edwards
- Iowa
- Factory
- Work
- Health
- Education
- Family
- Folk
- 2008
Election - Corporate
- Oil
- Government
- "Edwards
in Iowa: Closing With Class." ... ""It is time for
some truth telling, and the truth is that corporate greed is destroying
this country. I believe that we have a responsibility to stand up for the
sacrifice and the hard work of those generations before us."" ... "[2008
Election Democratic Presidential Candidate John] Edwards' final message
is simple: "to make absolutely certain that our kids have a better life
than we had. That's what this is all about, at the end of the day, to live
up to our responsibility, to live up to what our folks did for us," Edwards
said in a two-minute speech, his voice breaking, at a house party in Centerville
[Iowa] 11 hours after his factory floor appearance." ... ""One of the things
that I've seen just in the last 12 to 14 hours is the energy and excitement
as I move across Iowa," Edwards told reporters Wednesday in Mount Pleasant
[Iowa]. "And the one thing that's clear to me [is] that the people of Iowa
and the people of America are unstoppable when they commit themselves to
stopping these entrenched special interests."" ... ""I see the CEO of one
of the biggest health insurance companies in America making hundreds of
millions of dollars last year in one year. I see Exxon Mobil [oil corporation]
making billions and billions of dollars in profit, record profits. The
top 1% of Americans are taking twice as much of America's income as they
did 20-25 years ago," Edwards told supporters in Fort Madison [Iowa] today.
"The biggest corporations have an iron-fisted hold on your democracy.""
... ""I come from a family where people worked in the mills. My grandmother
had a sixth-grade education, she came from a family of sharecroppers, she
worked hard all of her life. I loved her dearly," Edwards said Wednesday
in Burlington [Iowa]. "She would have done anything for me, for my children,
for my grandchildren, and my mother and father they were exactly the same
way. They are no different than most of your parents and your grandparents.
They worked and sacrificed so that you could have a better life."" -By
Jay Newton-Small
-TIME.com
John
Edwards
- Iowa
- Manufacturing
Plant - Jobs
- Peoples
- Kids
- 2008
Election - 
- Ad
- Money
- 
Journalism
- Opinion
- "Laid-off
worker voices Edwards themes." ... "[2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Edwards, pressing his populist
anger [?editorial opinion masquerading as journalism via Foon Rhee and
the BostonGlobe, Watch
the TV ad] in the final days before the Iowa caucuses, is returning
to a familiar tale in a new TV spot and newspaper ad -- layoffs at the
Maytag
[manufacturing] plant in Newton, Iowa." ... "The TV ad is to begin airing
Wednesday, while the newspaper
ad appeared in today's Des Moines Register. They both feature Doug
Bishop, who lost his job in September 2004 and who relates his story of
meeting Edwards." ... ""This is something I'll never forget -- he grabbed
my seven-year-old son by the hand, he dropped to one knee, and he looked
him straight in the eye and he said, 'I'm going to keep fighting for your
daddy's job, I promise you that.'" ... ""You know, that stuff sticks with
you," Bishop continues. "That's the kind of thing we need in a leader in
this country. Not somebody that's going to go to a big fund-raiser and
say, 'Write me a check for $2,300, and I'll let you know you have my support.'"
... ""I want a guy that's going to sit down and look a seven year-old kid
in the eye," Bishop says, choking up, "and tell him, 'I'm going to fight
for your dad's job.' That's what I want."" -By Foon
Rhee -BostonGlobe
