Edwards admits "didn't have enough political experience to run on 2004 ticket"
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 30, 2007 - 3:17pm.
Democratic politics
Hello Everyone:
Below is the latest e mail from John Edwards titled "Starting Today: Raising the Minimum Wage" which does NOT have one word in it about Iraq or national security. Edwards is running a "pre-9/11 campaign" in my opinion!
John Edwards is right about the minimum wage BUT this is not 1992 and that is NOT the issue that people are most concerned about right now according to the polls:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/28/tww.01.html
THIS WEEK AT WAR
Encore Presentation: Week's War Activities Recounted
Aired January 28, 2007 - 13:00 ET
FOREMAN: "Aren't these candidates on the Democratic side, they're going to feel more pressure as these two years pass to say it's not enough to say George Bush is wrong. What's your plan?
SCHNEIDER: What's your plan for what? That's the point. The president says that have to come up with a plan for what he calls victory. The Democrats say they don't have to come up with plan for victory. They have to come up with plan that will protect the interests of the United States...
FOREMAN: Bill Schneider, where do international relations have to fit on these candidates' agenda and on the new president's agenda?
SCHNEIDER: Very high because right now, it's amazing that the conflict in Iraq completely consumes the agenda. I have never seen such a disparity as we see now in the polls when people are asked what's the most important problem facing the country. Iraq is way up here and everything else is in single digits. The economy, healthcare, those are concerns and those are important concerns
FOREMAN: Those were the things that we once thought would trump everything else.
SCHNEIDER: That's right and people actually think the economy is doing pretty well but it didn't have any impact on the election. Iraq consumes the agenda. As long as this conflict continues and Americans are getting killed and the situation looks chaotic, that's going to continue right through the elections.
FOREMAN: Bill Schneider, John King, thanks so much. We'll see what happens with all of these candidates."
Look here at how John Edwards admitted that his critics "may have been right" "that he didn't have enough political experience to run on the 2004 presidential ticket" on Monday, January 29:
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192923706
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Edwards campaigns during WFU talk
He discusses war in Iraq, universal health care, more
By Laura Giovanelli
JOURNAL REPORTER
When Foy asked him about concerns from some people that he didn't have enough political experience to run on the 2004 presidential ticket, Edwards said, "They may have been right." Edwards was Sen. John Kerry's vice presidential running mate.
"I think that we all learn and grow and evolve as human beings,"he said. "I've learned a great deal. I think there's a maturity and a depth that's required to be an effective president of the United States.
"When I ran in 2004, it would be fair to say that I spent most of my time thinking about being a good candidate ... and that's not what I think about these days,"he said. "I think about what I would want to do as president of the United States - whose advice you would seek, and ultimately how you would make really important decisions that would affect America and affect the world."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/30/73706.shtml?s=ic
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007 7:34 a.m. EST
John Edwards: I Was Too Inexperienced in 2004
"They may have been right," Edwards said, adding that the experience he has gained since the election has now prepared him for another run in 2008.
"When I ran in 2004, I spent most of my time thinking about being a good candidate," Edwards told a packedcrowd. "These days I think about what I want to do as president of the United States."
My question is what major thing(s) did John Edwards do from 11/04 to 1/07 that all of a sudden gives him the much needed foreign policy and national security experience to make him qualified to be President now? If anyone knows the answer to that question (other than his "world travel experience"), then please tell me what it is!
The bottom line is that Gen. Clark can easily match or beat John Edwards on ANY domestic issue while Edwards is NOT even in the same league with Gen. Clark as far as foreign policy and national security experience are concerned!
What a contradiction it is to me that on one hand so many people and media pundits are scared to death now about what Bush is doing in Iraq, what he may do in Iran, and they are desperately looking for some serious answers about how to possibly stop him while on the other hand so many of these people are looking to inexperienced "rock stars" and "media darlings" like Obama and Edwards who have no serious foreign experience at all for these answers as opposed to leaders with proven foreign policy and national security experience like Gen. Clark who has already answered their tough questions many times over:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10194
VIDEOS: How serious our foreign policy problems are & why we need Clark in 2008!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on December 22, 2006 - 6:07am.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10194#comment-165234
Look at how consistent that Gen. Clark HAS ALWAYS BEEN on Iraq!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on December 22, 2006 - 6:11am.
All people have to seriously ask "is John Edwards ready right NOW to inherit and fix the huge foreign policy mess in Iraq (and possibly Iran) that Bush will leave behind to his successor on 1/20/09?"
I definitely do NOT think so while I know FOR CERTAIN that Gen. Clark is ready to do that right now based on his proven military, national security, and foreign policy experience!
This is what I think that Clark supporters should be talking about now to other Democrats, to Independent voters as well as to disillusioned Republicans, and to the media!
Mitch Dworkin
http://www.securingamerica.com/
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/9331
OPEd: USA TODAY: Next move in Iraq?
Submitted by Wes Clark on November 21, 2006
http://www.securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7191
Listen to Gen. Wes Clark fight for Dems on Sean Hannity's radio program: An excellent example for all of us to follow and what we all need to be doing to help fight back against extreme right wing Neocon smear propaganda!
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Subj: Starting Today: Raising the Minimum Wage
Date: 1/29/2007 2:55:23 PM Central Standard Time
From: info@johnedwards.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)
Dear Mitch,
As I've traveled the country, I've talked to thousands of people who work one or more jobs and still struggle to keep food on their tables and make ends meet. Righting this inexcusable wrong is a core goal of our work together.
In less than 72 hours, the Senate will likely vote on a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. It's a long overdue change that will immediately help over 13 million people, many living at or below the edge of poverty. But it will only happen if you speak up.
Last week, the Senate Republicans filibustered a clean version of the proposal, and now they're trying to force Democrats to either pass billions of dollars more in corporate tax breaks or give up raising the minimum wage.
The only way to beat the special interests is to prove to every Senator that the American people are watching. It's time to tell the Senate that American workers deserve a raise - no strings attached:
Last year I worked with many of you and with our partners to help pass ballot initiatives raising the minimum wage in six states - so I know first hand how much support this has among working Americans. And I also know it's the right thing to do.
There's no doubt the minimum wage is too low: a full-time minimum wage worker brings in just $10,712 a year, less than half of the poverty level for a family of four.
There's no doubt it's been too long: in the ten years since the minimum wage was raised -- the longest delay in history -- the cost of living has gone up 25%.
And there's no doubt a higher minimum wage is good for the economy: studies show that cities and counties with higher minimum wages maintain or even increase employment levels.
The only doubt is whether the corporate lobbyists and their Republican allies will be able to dilute and delay the proposal at the expense of American workers.
If we raise our voice now, you and I can help make sure that doesn't happen.
Sign our petition to the Senate urging them to raise the minimum wage right away.
Creating the working society we believe in -- where every full-time job provides the dignity of a decent income and a springboard to future opportunity -- will require bold fixes for the ways our system treats workers. These include shifting the tax burden off the backs of wage earners, providing full child care benefits for working families, defending the basic rights of workers to organize -- and raising the minimum wage.
It can happen, but only if we seize the big moments and speak out for what is right.
Please make sure the Senate hears your voice today.
Sincerely,
John Edwards
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Subj: Iraq War De-escalation Act
Date: 1/30/2007 6:08:49 PM Central Standard Time
From: info@barackobama.com
Reply-to: notice-reply-83gs58s42bwwt6n@ga3.org
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Dear Mitch,
Today, we sadly find ourselves at the very point in Iraq I feared most when I opposed giving the President the open-ended authority to wage this war in 2002 – an occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences in the midst of a country torn by civil war.
We have waited and we have been patient. We have given chance after chance for a resolution that has not come, and, more importantly, watched with horror and grief the tragic loss of thousands of brave young Americans.
The time for waiting in Iraq is over. The days of our open-ended commitment must come to a close. And the need to bring this war to an end is here.
That is why today, I’m introducing the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007. This plan would not only place a cap on the number of troops in Iraq and stop the escalation, it would begin a phased redeployment of U.S. forces with the goal of removing of all U.S. combat forces from Iraq by March 31st, 2008 – consistent with the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that the President ignored.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070130/ap_on_go_co/obama_iraq_1
The redeployment of troops to the United States , Afghanistan , and elsewhere in the region would begin no later than May 1st of this year, toward the end of the timeframe I first proposed in a speech more than two months ago. In a civil war where no military solution exists, this redeployment remains our best leverage to pressure the Iraqi government to achieve the political settlement between its warring factions that can slow the bloodshed and promote stability.
The U.S. military has performed valiantly and brilliantly in Iraq . Our troops have done all we have asked them to do and more. But no amount of American soldiers can solve the political differences at the heart of somebody else’s civil war, nor settle the grievances in the hearts of the combatants.
When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances, for waiting and patience, is over. Too many lives have been lost and too many billions have been spent for us to trust the President on another tried and failed policy opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and even the Iraqis themselves.
It is time to change our policy.
It is time to give Iraqis their country back.
And it is time to refocus America ’s efforts on the challenges we face at home and the wider struggle against terror yet to be won.
Sincerely,
U.S. Senator Barack Obama
Paid for by Obama Exploratory Committee
http://www.barackobama.com/
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards acknowledged Monday that he may have been too inexperienced in national politics for his White House run in 2004.
The former North Carolina senator was serving his first and only Senate term four years ago when he declared himself a presidential candidate. During a forum at Wake Forest University on Monday, Edwards said he might agree with critics who said he left Congress too soon to seek the presidency.
"They may have been right," Edwards said, adding that the experience he has gained since the election has now prepared him for another run in 2008.
"When I ran in 2004, I spent most of my time thinking about being a good candidate," Edwards told a packed crowd. "These days I think about what I want to do as president of the United States."
Since losing in 2004 as the running mate for Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry, Edwards has traveled the world and the country as an advocate for anti-poverty efforts.
I asked this specific question about John Edwards' "experience" in the post above:
"My question is what major thing(s) did John Edwards do from 11/04 to 1/07 that all of a sudden gives him the much needed foreign policy and national security experience to make him qualified to be President now? If anyone knows the answer to that question (other than his "world travel experience"), then please tell me what it is!"
Below is the transcript of an answer that John Edwards gave to a person who asked him about his foreign policy experience in a public forum.
The first part of his answer had nothing to do with his past so the person who asked him the question had to ask it again to him!
His direct answer to that question was just a highlight of some humanitarian work that he did and he gave a description of some places where he went to speak.
Comparing that to what Gen. Clark has done is about like comparing the work of a college freshman (Edwards) to the work of an experienced professor (Clark) in my opinion!
And Edwards even has a few more years of "experience" over Obama!
What does that say about who the media should be talking about now as being a serious 2008 Presidential prospect? It should be Gen. Clark in my opinion!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16186985/
'Hardball College Tour' for Dec. 12
Read the transcript to the Tuesday show
Guests: John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Senator Edwards. If hypothetically you were to be running for president, what would you say to critics who think that you don‘t have enough governing experience on a national scale?
J. EDWARDS: I would say that I should be tested on that. I think that anybody who is considering voting for me ought to hear me talk about what I think needs done in America, what I think America needs to be doing in the world and they ought to listen to both the depth and the substance of what I‘m saying and decide whether they believe I have both the personal qualities and the vision, the substantive vision for America and the rest f the world, that the president of the United States needs. If I run for president, I‘m prepared to be tested on that.
MATTHEWS: Any thoughts on that?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I guess I was getting at more on was kind of the foreign policy aspect. As a senator for two years, did you have enough experience in the foreign policy realm to kind of comfort the American people at a time where foreign policy is really at the forefront?
J. EDWARDS: It‘s a really good question, an important question.
I think that the answer is, first of all, I was in the Senate six years, not two years. No, it‘s OK.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Communications major, sorry.
J. EDWARDS: You know, some of the rest of us make mistakes like that, too. I was there for six years and then subsequent to the presidential campaign in 2004, my time has been spent, a big chunk of it, has been doing work overseas. The home audience just saw me traveling through Uganda, I‘ve been doing humanitarian work. I spent time speaking in the Middle East, speaking in the Middle East, in India, in Asia, in Europe, speaking, meeting with leaders. And I think that has been enormously valuable in terms of adding to the depth and maturity of my view about what‘s happening in the world.
MATTHEWS: OK, we‘ll be right back with more questions for Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, possibly running for president.
how much "listening" did he do with the foreign leaders, people and their plights????
..."and then subsequent to the presidential campaign in 2004, my time has been spent, a big chunk of it, has been doing work overseas. The home audience just saw me traveling through Uganda, I‘ve been doing humanitarian work. I spent time speaking in the Middle East, speaking in the Middle East, in India, in Asia, in Europe, speaking, meeting with leaders. And I think that has been enormously valuable in terms of adding to the depth and maturity of my view about what‘s happening in the world."....
he wasn't even sure of what he was saying, inconsistent, incoherent,.... didn't know what to say that he did.....
Empty suit!!
He wasn't qualified in '04 and he still isn't qualified.
"listening" did he do with the foreign leaders, people and their plights????" is an EXCELLENT point for all people to seriously think about and consider in my opinion!
Hasn't Edwards never been to any country in the middle east in the past 4 years other than Israel for an AIPAC conference in which he expressed support for a escalating tensions with Iran and named Iran as the number one threat to America.
What on earth has he learned since 2004 that makes him qualified to clean up the mess in the Middle East Bush is going to leave behind, he's done nothing but appease the same idealogical groups who lead the charge into Iraq.
I hope JE has to answer some tough questions on the campaign trail and in the debates, he needs to have his feet held to the fire.
He gave up his Senate seat because he was going to lose it.
Had flyover shots of it with description and all.
Then discussion of the DC estate that he had when running in '04
Brit Hume went on about the "Two Americas" and Edwards' poverty message
the average American wonder, doesn't it? I mean, he talks as though he were Abe Lincoln, wearing pants that were far too short and doing his school work on the back of a shovel, fercripessake! He should know about the 2 Americas alright, because he is on the privileged side.
There is some discussion of the topic of Edwards new home here.
http://mydd.com/story/2007/1/28/23298/4154
I only scanned it quickly. Matt Stoeller seems to think he was snuckered by a right wing smear campaign. Apparently the house is ok because Mrs. Edwards bloged how energy efficient it is.
He's stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
John Edwards has no concept about how to deal with extreme right wing "swiftboat" leaders like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity!
He came to Dallas, TX in 11/06 to do a free book signing very close to where I live and I went to see him.
I went to one of his staff people before he spoke and told her that I wanted to ask Edwards how he would deal with attacks from people like Rush Limbaugh if he was the 2008 Democratic nominee.
His staff person thought that was a good question and pointed to me for Edwards to call on when he took some questions from the audience.
When I asked that question to Edwards, his answer was basically to ignore those kind of attacks and just try to run on a positive message being the best possible candidate that you can be.
I thought Edwards missed the point completely.
After the book signing was over, several people came up to me and told me that my question was a good one and that they were not satisfied with the answer that Edwards gave to me!
If one is ever to be a candidate for public office, then they had better be able to deal with people like Hannity and Limbaugh or they will wind up having their message defined for them by their political enemies (like what happened to Kerry in 2004) as opposed to being able to define their own message (like how Gen. Clark is able to do on FOX News on a regular basis and also by his actually calling in to Hannity's radio program):
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7191
Listen to Wes Clark fight for Dems on Hannity
Submitted by larry on June 22, 2006 - 7:57pm.
This is a very big reason why I think that the media issue is so important which is why I talk about it as much as I do in so many of my posts:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_010407/content/cutting_edge.guest.html
Breck Girl Resigns from His Own Poverty Center
January 4, 2007
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT 
RUSH: Did you hear about John Edwards, the Breck Girl? He has "resigned as director of the Poverty Center that he founded at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He did this so that he can focus on his second run for president. Edwards was the first director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity founded in February of 2005. It studies ideas for moving more Americans out of poverty and into the middle class." Now, get this. "In his resignation letter to the law school dean, [the Breck Girl] said that the center, in two years, had already had some success by holding conferences and panel discussions. In April, the center is expected to publish a book of scholarly essays called Ending Poverty in America, and the center's work will continue without him."
http://politicalhumor.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=politicalhumor&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fslate.msn.com%2Fid%2F2108216%2Fslideshow%2F2108085%2Fentry%2F2108087%2Fspeed%2F100
Wow! Folks, this is ground-breaking stuff. They've been around for only two years, and they've already had some success by holding conferences and panel discussions on poverty! Do you know that's never been done? Do you know that never in this country's history has there been a "panel discussion" or a single conference where the participants discussed poverty? This is ground breaking, and in only two years they got this done! You know, what? I always thought the fastest way out of poverty was work. That's generally the way. You learn things every day, and you have to be open to new ideas. You can't be closed-minded about these things. Well I -- apparently, ladies and gentlemen -- have been wrong. Panel discussions and conferences! Why, that's profound. It's so simple, how did it escape me? And they've had so much success, the Breck Girl can quit his own poverty center and run for president because he's fixed it -- and they're going to, by the way, publish scholarly essays in April.
Wow! Ladies and gentlemen, this is a man who cares and gets things done, a man of action: the Breck Girl, John Edwards! We owe him a debt of gratitude because there have been so many misconceptions about poverty all of these years, and here in two short years we have been shown the light. We have been given countenance. Brilliance has been visited upon us. The solution? Panel discussions and holding conferences and scholarly publications of whatever happened at those rare meetings! You realize how infrequent this kind of thing happens, when we're talking about poverty?
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Read the Background Material...
(WS: Edwards leaving UNC poverty center to concentrate on run for presidency)
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061230/NEWS/612300359/-1/State
(Times Picayune: Edwards looks for spotlight by shining one on Katrina)
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/washington/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1167806681232110.xml&coll=1
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Where Presidential Candidates Should Announce
January 3, 2007
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: We had the Breck Girl announce his candidacy for the presidency, the Democratic presidential nomination down in New Orleans. They set the stage well with all the ruins in New Orleans with the Breck Girl.
Now, what a stunt that was. Why was he holding the shovel? Was he holding the shovel to clear up the mud or to clear up the words that came out of his mouth in the process of his announcement? The thing that's exciting to me about this is that it introduces a new potential great sport. You know, there are a lot of Democratic candidates still yet to announce. Edwards, from North Carolina, announced in New Orleans amidst the ruins of Katrina. He went to the 9th Ward. John Kerry has yet to make it official, but when he does, where would be a good place for him to announce? How about in front of the Eiffel Tower in France? Joe Biden, he hasn't announced officially, has he? He should do it in front of a local Hair Club for Men store. Christopher Dodd, it doesn't matter where he announces because it's like, "If nobody hears a tree fall in the forest does it make a noise?" Nobody will hear it.
Hillary should announce in front of a Potemkin village: an ornate facade with nothing behind it. And Algore, he should go up to Alaska and announce his candidacy in ANWR with the fired-up speech, "Keep your drills out of my ANWR!". John McCain, where could he announce? He could announce in Hyannisport with Russ Feingold on one side and Teddy Kennedy on his far left. There are any number of possibilities for or Democrats who are going to announce.
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Read the Background Material...
(Times Picayune: Edwards looks for spotlight by shining one on Katrina)
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/washington/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1167806681232110.xml&coll=1
(NRO: John Edwards, Paris Hilton and the politics of economic resentment)
http://tks.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGYyZTFlMjgyZjJhODZlYWY1OWQ2NjQzYzk2ZmYzYjQ=
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Did Breck Girl Clear Cut for Air Force One?
January 31, 2007
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
St. Louis and Joe. You're next, sir. Hello.
CALLER: You know, Rush, I don't know if you saw pictures of John Edwards' estate out there.
RUSH: I saw it.
CALLER: But it looks to me like he clear-cut, and I mean absolutely flattened about a hundred acres of woods around his estate.
RUSH: I know, it does. It looks like there was a nuclear blast there and then he built a house.
CALLER: It looks like a Wal-Mart parking lot surrounding his estate, and then you see these giant woods and trees, and you can see right where they just clear-cut, they just destroyed it. Now, do you think anybody will notice that besides you and I?
RUSH: Yeah, I've had some people e-mail me about it, and I've only seen one picture of it. The website people can find it. We need to put a picture up there because we can't describe it effectively. But you have come as close as anybody I have heard. But the thing is Wal-Mart parking lots are paved. It's worse than clear cutting. They just leveled the environment all around this house, and it looks like it's out in the middle of nowhere, which it is. It's got a long, winding road. You can't get to this if John Edwards doesn't want you getting to it.
CALLER: And you know what's going to happen with the fluorescent lightbulbs? Same thing that happened with the toilets. Instead of using one flush you use three flushes now. Instead of using one fluorescent lightbulb, people will be using three and four fluorescent lightbulbs to do what one incandescent does.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. You're exactly right. You know what people are doing? You can go on eBay and buy these old toilets that have the three and four gallons in them instead of the one and half. The old toilets are grandfathered, you can legally put them in. These are compact fluorescent lightbulbs, they're not just fluorescents, these are compact fluorescent lightbulbs authored here and promoted by Laurie David. But that's a good point. You're going to need a whole lot more of them, plus, you know what people have done also with the toilet problem, in addition to certain prisons now having point them away from Mecca so Islamic prisoners don't have to insult religion by using the toilet while pointing the wrong direction. I wonder what kind of Islamic law they violated to get in prison in the first place. Anyway, I'm sorry. Beside the point.
Now you can go out and get these vacuum things, these toilets that hit the button, vacuum, because, you know, he's right. The gallon and a half or whatever, you do have to flush the toilet three or four times, and they get stopped up, clogged up and all this sort of thing. So now you have these vacuum things or motorized or whatever. You let one of those things blow up on you, you've got water all over the bathroom or a busted pipe. Doesn't happen much.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
We've posted the picture of John Edwards' new estate, the 28,000 square foot main house and the barn that's where the basketball court is and the gym and everything. By the way, I have no quarrel, I don't want anybody to misunderstand, people can spend their money however they want. With Edwards, this is a guy walking around talking about the poverty stricken circumstances that so many Americans endure in this country, and how this country doesn't have opportunity for people and he needs to be elected to fix it, this whole “two Americas” gunk. What I want you to notice in this picture is the clear cutting. Take a look at the environmental destruction that took place to build this house. Second thing I want to point out to you is on top of the barn you will see what looks like a tower on top of the barn, or the red building, whatever it is. I think it's a barn.
Now, my theory, ladies and gentlemen, is that what Edwards has done, he has clear-cut this area, and I don't know how far the clear cutting goes, he may not be through with the clear cutting, he may be planning on building a runway that would handle a Boeing 747 such as Air Force One, or maybe a smaller version of Air Force One he could fly in, like a G5 or a 757, 737, whatever he's in would be Air Force One, and that may be what the tower is for. Sort of like a miniature air traffic control thing. If not, he's obviously going to have a helipad there so that Marine One can land as he's president and can get back to his North Carolina White House. If I'm wrong about this, this tower is just a security tower, where marksmen will be standing by prepared to shoot anybody from the second America that dares to try get close to his estate.
Read the Background Material...
(Carolina Journal: Edwards Home Is County's Largest)
http://carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=3848
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Carolina Journal Exclusives
Edwards Home County's Largest
The 28,200-square-foot home also Orange County's most valuable
January 26, 2007
CJ photo by Don Carrington
The 28,200-square-foot Edwards home in Orange County is expected to be valued at more than $6 million.
RALEIGH — Presidential candidate John Edwards and his family recently moved into what county tax officials say is the most valuable home in Orange County. The house, which includes a recreational building attached to the main living quarters, also is probably the largest in the county.
“The Edwardses’ residential property will likely have the highest tax value in the county,” Orange County Tax Assessor John Smith told Carolina Journal. He estimated that the tax value will exceed $6 million when the facility is completed.
The rambling structure sits in the middle of a 102-acre estate on Old Greensboro Road west of Chapel Hill. The heavily wooded site and winding driveway ensure that the home is not visible from the road. “No Trespassing” signs discourage passersby from venturing past the gate.
Don Knight, Orange County building plans examiner, told CJ that, including the recreational building, the Edwardses’ home would be one of the largest in Orange County.
Knight approved the building plans that showed the Edwards home totaling 28,200 square feet of connected space. The main house is 10,400 square feet and has two garages. The recreation building, a red, barn-like building containing 15,600 square feet, is connected to the house by a closed-in and roofed structure of varying widths and elevations that totals 2,200 square feet.
The main house is all on one level except for a 600-square-foot bedroom and bath area above the guest garage.
The recreation building contains a basketball court, a squash court, two stages, a bedroom, kitchen, bathrooms, swimming pool, a four-story tower, and a room designated “John’s Lounge.”
Edwards was the Democratic candidate for vice president in 2004 and a former N.C. senator.
Thursday afternoon, the Edwards for President press office was unable to provide information on any additional buildings planned for the estate.
Don Carrington is executive editor of Carolina Journal.
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around "within minutes" as far as his Iraq war policy is concerned which is really just someone blowing with the political wind and tide of the moment:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/21/tww.01.html
THIS WEEK AT WAR
Week's War Activities Recounted
Aired January 21, 2007 - 13:00 ET
ROBERTS: "Dana, some of these Democrats are being very careful about making sure that they're not boxing themselves in. When you look at Hillary Clinton's proposal as I talked about with her, she puts a cap on the troops, but doesn't touch that third rail of funding for them. Are they being very careful about what they say?
BASH: They're being very careful on the money issue, because that is just a political danger zone, as you said, the third rail of Iraq politics, but there is such intense jockeying. You know, we always knew this was going to be the place to watch because there's so many Democrats in the Senate, Republicans, too, but especially Democrats, running for president and just this week, I mean, what you saw, especially between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. We knew Hillary Clinton was going to come out with her legislation in the morning. The same day she did, I saw Barack Obama in the hallway and I said, are you going to be for a cap in the troops? Are you going to have your own bill and he was very noncommittal, saying well, I don't know. We have to wait and see, within minutes, within minutes of Hillary Clinton coming out with her proposal. We got a press release from Barack Obama. He too supports capping the number of troops in Iraq. So, they are so watching each other and really circling each other. And we are so far away from when this really gets intense. It's going to be quite a place to watch up here with people."
Is Obama a person who we know for sure has what it takes to inherit and fix the huge foreign policy mess that Bush will leave behind on 1/20/09?
I would not risk that for a moment (along with Edwards) when we know for sure what we are getting in Gen. Clark based on his solid record of foreign policy, national security, and military experience!