Goodnoght Mama. Goodnight Daddy. Good night Jason. Good night Ben. GOOD NIGHT JOHN-BOY! Go back and get a job in the meee-al. Asshole. Way to waste millions of tax-payer (remember, the people you CARE so much for) matching fund dollars. You npile of shit.
It doesn't matter what the means of production cost, the only thing relevant to consumers is the final price. The fact is that John Edwards is willing to pay $400 for a haircut, whether that cost is due to travel expenses of the hairdresser or due to the hairdresser using gold scissors is irrelevant.
"The Democrat's campaign committee picked up the tab for two haircuts at $400 each by celebrity stylist Joseph Torrenueva of Beverly Hills, California, according to a financial report filed with the Federal Election Commission. -AP 4/17/07
how does a guy that pays $400 for a haircut stand for change. sounds like just another rich politician planning on using the force to solve problems with not real plan.
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CFR members will sell poor Americans down the river for the sake of cheaper labor from immigrants or outsourcing. You lie, Mr. Edwards. The only thing you have going for you is your hair.
"Should you trust a man who will steal 1,250 dollars from his own campaign fund to spend on a haircut for himself to be the president of the United States?
Of coarse you shouldn't! That would be insane!" -John Edwards, on himself being unfit to lead.
You want uni health care john then you and those who agree can pay for it yourselves. Let you actions speak for themselves john, show me the money. Hell, you could treat these people in your ENERGY HOG 28,200 Sq ft. mansion john.
I pity all you dolts who are fooled by this fool edwards. He is such a two faced hypocrite. All one has to do is a little research and you will see john edward deeds are NOT consistant with his words.
President John Edwards, that rings true for me. He has asked us to look at all the candidates and decide for ourselves who we think will stand up for us. I haven't heard any of the others say that.
Media wants to shut him up? The only reason he thinks they want to shut him up is because Edwards HAS NOT SAID how a "universal health care system" will be paid for. Ah...more taxes!
End the war in Iraq? We did end it, back in 1991. Saddam refused to end it, so we had to take him out again.
Why doesn't he address taxes? Security? Welfare? Research and Development? Instead he's babbling about the liberal media wanting to shut him up....?!
He's dead-on about the American people being purposely distracted by the mainstream media from critical issues. YouTube is a real blessing in that it brings many voices about many issues into our homes ~ and we choose what we want to see and hear. This is my first post ~ glad to be here!
EDWARDS speaks with sincerity about the causes he believes in while people focus on his overpaid haircut which of course every candidate out their overspends on appearance related items. Unfortunately society has become obsessed w/looks and so candidates due their best to enhance their looks. Go beyond looks - Edwards is our best hope as a nation!!!
As Edwards in his Gucci shoes tries to make you belive 60% taxes is great just so a pack of thugs can lineup and clog the health care system I just keep saving my money.
Every public figure has to spend money on their damn hair. Hillary spends more than Edwards. John is right, they are only trying to distract the public from the real issues. John Edwards is a good honest man and we need him in the White House leading this country.
And as for "having plans," try logging onto the Edwards website and looking at his detailed policy proposals. Or, hell, actually bother to click a mouse and check out some of the other videos on YouTube. I realize the corporate media is determined to silence him, but that's also no excuse for such laziness on the part of voters.
If your policies are screwing the average American over, you've got to cater to their irrational prejudices and fears, and that's exactly what Republicans have been excellent at for the past 25 years.
This is too funny. Republican voters vote with their heads? Your party resorts to putting such bullshit issues on the ballot as anti-gay marriage amendments just so their backward base will crawl out of their holes and vote. They resort to God, guns, gays, swiftboats, and haircuts because they know if the dialogue turns to the substantive issues that affect working people's lives, they'll come out on the short end every time.
I'm sorry, but it doesn't seem like you have a plan, you just make up reasons and arguments against them. You said nothing in this video, and want a vote?
ddstar, you're spewing the same tired old Republican rhetoric that Democrats have no plan. Go to JohnEdwards website and you'll find several plans. All you have to do is read the Issues section... if you can read.
whoa whoa whoa, don't attack my education on reading, all I said is in this video he stated nothing.
I looking at his issues and they all seem borrowed and promised. They have no backing at all to them, no hard facts and no reason WHY it needs to change. It's just thrown out their.
Lv our posts fall on liberal deaf ears. The intellectual disconnect here is that liberals think with thier feelings and conservatives think for themselves based on real information and facts. The overweleming sentiment here however is that Edwards is a real tool.
"Conservatives think for themselves based on real information and facts," as opposed to "with their feelings"? Look up "Pavlovian Response," then read the following: "Communism," "9/11," "taxes," "gays," "secular," "ACLU," "Jane Fonda." I'll bet you wake up in a voting booth, having voted straight R ticket.
August 3, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of the media mogul's companies.
Of course, just one haircut would have fed a family of four for two weeks. And he's reportedly had at least three of these bank-breaker haircuts. Maybe there is something to this "taking from the rich and giving to the poor". A tax on expensive haircuts
MEMO TO LIBERALS: Another week and Edwards is floundering against Clinton and Obama. More proof that even the most gullible are not buying into his B.S. BTW, I havn't heard much from Elizabeth lately. Could it be she's too busy changing the 3481 energy efficient light bulbs it takes to illuminate the ubermansion?
Of course the Republicans don't want to spend federal money on the NAFTA Super Highway. They don't tax Americans, they sell America. They want private companies in other countries, such as Cintra in Spain, to fund it (who will in turn own toll booths along the highway). At least that's what Republican Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Republican Party are trying to do here in Texas with their planned Trans-Texas Corridor, the starting point for the NAFTA Super Highway.
I encourage you to read John Edward's book Four Trials before you judge him as just another trial lawyer. He represented everyday people who were seriously wronged by big business. He is a compassionate man from modest beginnings who made it. He doesn't flaunt that. He wants every American to have the same opportunity. Find out more about him before you decide.
Why don't you try a hair salon on Madison Avenue or perhaps Rodeo Drive, see how much they charge and if you get your hair done at home, it can cost upwards of $1200. which is what everyone else that's a millionaire spends on their hair, who want to support the hairdressers of America, the working class people.
I'm trying to figure out if you're just enlightening me or if you're being a dick. Please clarify. No, seriously though, no one needs to spend hundreds of dollars on a haircut. So, I really hope, for the sake of intelligence, that you aren't condoning hundred-(thousand- even)dollar haircuts.
By the way, good job on replying to nearly every comment. Wow, you have stamina!
-- big insurance companies, big drug companies, big oil companies -- they are not going to negotiate. They are not going to give away their power. The only way that they are going to give away their power is if we take it away from them.. Edwards
This is the utmost in hypocrisy on Edward?s part since he was the one conspiring with Hillary to shut up other Dem candidates by preventing their participation in future debates.
Definitely not an accident. The MSM is in the hand of their Republican owners not the people, and the owners are pleased as punch with the incompetence of the Republican party.
If this imbecile is elected he will promise each poor family a $400 stipend so that one member can get a good haircut. He needs to go back to chasing ambulances; oh. but then he would have to admit to making $100 million a year. What a total moron!
daytraderaz1 not only do you make an idiotic point but you are also very foolish to believe that the other major presidential candidates arent concerned about their looks and that they dont pay about as much as john edwards did for haircuts and such, look at mitt romney who payed 300 dollars for make up services recently. politicians have always been concerned about their looks, so start worrying about the actual policies that the candidates are putting forth and not about haircuts
zormysaurus, are these people really as dumb as they come off? No wonder Bush was elected twice(well actually once) but what the hey! If they chose a candidate by haircut or wealth or any number of superficial reasons, it goes to prove the dumbing down of our media has been successful.The Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Star magazine mentality. I am down with a bad back so lots of time on hand...and had not visited these sites before. What an eyeopener, and I must say not for the good.
Who wants to shut him up? The Fairness Doctrine advocates? Oh...he is one. Playing on the ticket of the ones who can't think for themselves. Oh, yeah...universal healthcare...we already have it. Leave it alone before you eff it up.
"These people who make a $100,000,000 a year" ... John, you're like the pot calling the kettle black. John, I think your speeches about fighting the rich ring a little hollow. Remember Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us." (Us = You!)
Right! He got rich helping the little guy. John just wanted to do good and in the process did quite well! He should be in the H-of-F alongside the other pro bono's: Mussolini made the trains run on time. Hitler built roads. Mao killed 20-30 M, all rich capitalists. (The Red Guard was more or less like our trial lawyers; people just helping the little guy.) And don't forget Stalin. So many nice people helping the poor. I, too, like John. I'm inexplicably attracted to rich hypocrites.
FDR was rich and helped the poor. I don't see why Edwards can't do the same. At least he is willing to pay his share to help them, unlike the people he is complaining about who would rather get a second yacht then help someone in need.
Conservative controls the media???? LOL what a little cry baby! Let's see ABC, CBS, NBC, MCNBC, CNN, etc... Hmmmm I think these are all liberal media companies.... What a moron! Vote for me and I will put a chicken in every pot..HAHAHAHA
Did you fall out of 2002 or something? CNN gives shows to racists reactionary republicans like Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs. Not exactly how I'd run my liberal version of Fox News. The media are giant corporations, which aren't exactly liberal institutions.
I like John Edwards, but this gets a little conspiratorial. The pundits like their chucklefests. They had one with Romney hunting "varmints" because Romney is courting gun owners. They had one with Edwards on the hair thing because he is talking about wealth and poverty. The media are predictable on these things. It's not a conspiracy though.
phillip Edwards made his career by convincing juries full of toothless, banjo stummin' moonshiners that birth defects were the fault of doctors and hospitals. With the genetic testing we have today some of those cases would not have been won. They were won on sympathy not fact or accurate expert testimony. In fact many of the cases that followed were settled out of court and Edwards was heralded by his fellow trial attorneys as one of the best ambulance chasers of all time. A true statesman!
Hey Zero, I am beginning to think you have a personal vendetta against Edwards, perhaps on the losing end of a law suit??? hmmmm. Either that or you enjoy spewing half truths or just plain lies....But why? Why do you spend so much time on this thread? Seems a bit obsessive to me. I support Edwards and have a vested interest, but why are you here? Who & Where is your candidate?
Edwards is a champion of all that is good in America. He's made his career sticking up for little people against teams of lawyers and experts in courtrooms, and has continued this as a statesman.
Oh my! This guy is evil! 'They' are spending millions of lobby dollars to get laws that force people to buy their healthcare insurance. I understand why the industry giants have to pretend they don't want all of america to be forced to buy their product, but this guy spews his lies with passion. Scary.
What lies? Not only do we have 47 million people without health insurance, but we have people being refused treatment who actually have health insurance.
I think that he wants to bring a better life to the poor and the middle class.
Sorry, I thought I clearly identified the lie. It's the idea that the healthcare industry would want to shut up people arguing for a system that forces everyone to buy their products. "Oh no, please don't subsidize us with tax dollars!!!"
The health care industry would love for us to subsidize health care, but what people like John Edwards wants to do is bring national healthcare, which would hurt the health care companies because it wouldn't be private business for profit.
They love subsidies, but they hate public health care.
After shaking down doctors and insurance companies, causing the cost of medical care to skyrocket, you should be the last one talking about FIXING the problem.
THATS WHY insurance premiums are out of reach for some.
THAt POLLING SAMPLE WAS A WHOPPING 400 PEOPLE FROM IOWA FROM RESARCH 2000. THAT SAME GROUP HAS CLINTON AT 27% NATIONALLY AND EDWARDS AT 10%. NICE TRY AND NICE SPIN.
"...THAt POLLING SAMPLE WAS A WHOPPING 400 PEOPLE FROM IOWA FROM RESARCH 2000. THAT SAME GROUP HAS CLINTON AT 27% NATIONALLY AND EDWARDS AT 10%. NICE TRY AND NICE SPIN. ..."
democrats are all about politics. little to no interest in policy. big government is ruining the lives of the working poor.
Democrats are all about making people more dependent on them, so they are trapped into voting their way.
People don't choose their party's nominee nationally, it's in the early states. Last election, Kerry's win in IA skyrocketed him into the primaries. Who cares that a national poll lets us know what people in Wisconsin and Colorado think - they don't have any impact on the nominee. Spin. Sure. He's consistently been ahead in IA for months now.
MEMO TO LIBERALS: Edwards is polling at 27% in IA, with Hillary @ 22% & Barack @ 16%. The rest of the country doesn't decide who becomes the nom, it starts in IA. Rock on, John!
Why should people get punished for making more money? For a moment, I though Johnny was talking about fair tax, 10% tax on sales and nothing else. That would be fair.
The percent of people that give to charity is higher among poor people who don't believe in income redistribution than rich people who favor income redistribution.(It is easy to want to give other people's money away and pat yourself on the back for advocating it, all the time calling people uncompassionate for not agreeing with you.)
MEMO TO LIBERALS: This week's average of a the polls now has Edwards a distant FOURTH with 10.5% of the democratic vote. Gore got 13% if that says anything. Further proof that even hard core dems think he's a phoney.
He stands up for the poor because he has the means to. The poor can't speak for themselves. No one listens. You have to ask yourself, "what is in this for him?". I'm curious to know, from you, why you think a man who has enough money to do whatever he wants in life would want to be President. Maybe he really cares, maybe he likes challenges, maybe he likes power. . . I don't care. I think Edwards will make a good President.
"...He stands up for the poor because he has the means to. The poor can't speak for themselves. No one listens ..."
dont't you see that the larger government becomes, the worse off the poor are? The poor are aflicted with more obesity, dropping out of HS, single parent homes, males in prison, underemployment ... in increasing numbers.
Edwards only offers more government intervention. He is wrong.
Umm, dude, no serious economist or anyone who actually knows what they're talking about has ever made the argument that government intervention in the marketplace is necessarily bad for the poor. Go back and listen to Rush again: the correct libertarian argument (which is still wrong, empirically) is that government intervention into an unregulated marketplace is bad for the economy as a WHOLE.
You might try reading an Econ 101 book at least before offering prescriptive Econ advice.
"...no serious economist ... has ever made the argument that government intervention in the marketplace is necessarily bad for the poor ..."
Milton Friedman did. Thomas Sowell does. The government should help the poor, but democrat politicians and voters are oblivious that too much assistance harms rather than helps. The bigger the government, the fewer the number of poor families with two parents.
No actually they didn't. You'll find plenty of arguments that regulation shrinks overall growth, sure, but you won't find anything where anyone respectable argues that a direct regulation in favor of the poor is bad for the poor.
Also, are you really arguing against tax code fairness, or govt intervention into healthcare when we already pay a record level of GDP into a broken system?
"... you won't find anything where anyone respectable argues that a direct regulation in favor of the poor is bad for the poor. ..."
you democrats cant think for yourselves? You have to defer to "respectable" experts? ;)
I just read in Syracuse 25% of HS students graduate on time. High dropout rates are devastating poor communities. Students drop out because their family structure has been destroyed by democrat "assistance" programs.
-"Economists believe that federal regulation hurts the poor" to "I believe, based on 1 or 2 things I think, that federal regulation hurts the poor".
There are frankly a lot of reasons we have huge poverty, and certainly fed programs are inefficient. That being said, the increase in poverty, not surprisingly, has increased directly with a drop in federal assistance and federal regulation since the early 80s.
"... the increase in poverty, not surprisingly, has increased directly with a drop in federal assistance and federal regulation since the early 80s. ..."
what assistance and regulation has decreased since the 1980s?
Also, denville, why do you think family structures have been destroyed by "assistance" programs, which weren't accused of destroying families from the 40s-70s? Why wouldn't you think it's any one of a number of other things, such as the fact that 2 income households with multiple jobs are now the norm, meaning less time for parents to spend supervising kids. Or TV. Or rampant materialism. Or crappier schools. Etc. etc. etc.
"... why do you think family structures have been destroyed by "assistance" programs ..."
Life can be hard, frustrating and unfair. But work and consistent effort can overcome these obstacles, resulting in people being satisfied with their achievements. Too many government handouts discourages the hard work needed to overcome life's difficulties.
"... are you really arguing against tax code fairness ..."
the most unfair part of the tax system is that people are forced to pay into social security. %12.4 of your income. What a waste!
In HS, teach students to be roofers, plumbers, truck drivers, mechanics, electricians, ... Government dependency is a dead end street. Better that people go to work every day than get a government check.
Actually, the most unfair part of SS taxation is the fact that it's regressive, and capped at $90,000, so it's less than 12.4% for people making more than $90,000. Modern SS taxation is actually a Republican invention, implemented by Reagan at Greenspan's urging in 1983 or so. We raised payroll taxes hugely (and that tax was capped at a certain income), and that money was SUPPOSED to be locked away for social security. In fact, it was spent for other things like tax cuts and defense spending.
"... the most unfair part of SS taxation is the fact that it's regressive, and capped at $90,000, so it's less than 12.4% for people making more than $90,000 ..."
tax rates for the "rich" over $90,000 range for 25% to 35% of total income. Would be great for the country if everyone paid %12.4 in taxes.
1) I agree re hard work and handouts. But I also know that unregulated markets have never rewarded hard work per se.
2) People under $90k pay way over 12.4% in taxes, obviously. They pay 12.4% in SS taxes, along with income taxes, sales and use taxes, etc. By any gauge today, the typical millionaire is paying less in total taxes as a % of total income than someone making $50k. And that's wrong, imo.
"...People under $90k pay way over 12.4% in taxes, obviously. They pay 12.4% in SS taxes, along with income taxes, sales and use taxes, ..."
right, but Edwards would not allow a 2 parent family making $90k to put their %12.4 FICA into a private retirement account. $10k per year, at 5% interest, for 40yrs is close to $1million at retirement time. The Edwards, one size fits all, government retirement system sucks.
Oh yeah, and Bush continues to cut border security while increasing spending war in Iraq, which is well known to foster anti-American sentiment and is a breeding ground for terrorists now. Man, stop listening to the b.s. on fox news. it's rotting your brain.
Edwards speaking up for the poor while getting 400 dollar haircuts is a bit retarded. It's about as bad as guiliani running for president while dressed as a woman, or American saying it's a democracy while voting bush family in twice and about to vote clinton family in twice. google old USSR's re-election rates. They're lower than USA, and yet USA calls itself a democracy....yeah, sure.
Why would I trade my internet connection to feed the hungry? That's the dumbest thing I ever heard of. Go buy a "support our troops" sticker made in china and pretend to support your troops by sending them to wars based on lies, you hypocrite. As for helping the poor, you don't know wtf I do, so go do America a favor and suck some bush cock.
He's standing up for the poor but he has 400 dollar haircuts. How can he understand the poor when he shells out that much for something most people pay 20 bux for? Come on, man. It's clear he's out of touch with the average man. Next thing you'll be telling everyone is that it's okay for Americans to die for lies because the command-in-chief said so. Land of the free, home of the brave.
So I can't help the hungry because I have plenty of food to eat? I'm a hypocrite when I say we need to end war because I have an abundance of peace in my life? Go ahead and live like a bum and see how many people take you seriously; 'cause at the moment, I can't think of a single poor American who has brought policy change for the rest of the 1 in 8 Americans living in poverty.
I love this guy! Self-made man which is a nice contrast to the fratboy in chief - and Edwards has always worked for the little guy - this is not a new political tack. It's tiring to read inane insults from the right when we've just watched the repubs run the most corrupt congress ever and now out of power they are obstructionist with bush even vetoing health coverage for children! - ties to Abramoff and Duke Cunningham - lying a nation into war and occupation for 5 years
"...It's tiring to read inane insults from the right when we've just watched the repubs run the most corrupt congress ..."
Big government corrupts everyone it touches. Democrats want to make government even larger, more intrusive.
"...with bush even vetoing health coverage for children!..."
The more government provides for the well being of poor families, the less needed will be husbands. The poor are decreasingly likely to have intact families because of growing government.
Oh poor Johnny. The man is trying to shut you up? Give me a break! Get over yourself. Your ideas are nothing new. It's the same old class warfare, big government entitlement programs that fail. All you really care about is getting votes and gaining power. You rely on people's stupidity and emotions for your own gain.
Dialgaboy I have to say your comment pretty much sums up my day long diatribe in one concise comment. Kudos, I'll say nothing more (for now). You libs know you're beaten with the facts, and I don't need to defend myself as the sentiment on this bloviating, charlatan asshole speaks for itself.
all the Republicans offer is a return to bad old days of the gilded age and robber barons. Starvation and death in old age. The gap between the haves and have not is growing. So build your gated community your going to need to live there to avoid the angry starving masses.
The difference is that the Swift Boat attacks were almost completely false, while the haircut attacks are 100% true. And to pretend he's getting laughed at just because he's moved far to the left is ridiculous.
what i think... i think that these politicians just adapt to the current trend... they say what ever they need to get people vote for them. Bunch of hypocrits... like you edwards
I'm sorry, I don't understand. What do you even know about John Edwards? But isn't it great that because of our free system, you can say things that are mean and your speech is protected?
MEMO TO LIBERALS: I thought I'd look into your corporate america, investmnet bank, Wall Street evildoers, manipulate the system-make the rich richer keep the little guy down theory. According to the federal election commision filings most of thier campaigne dollars went democrat. Goldman Sachs, the chief corporate evildoer is backing Obama. Morgan Stanley, a close second is backing Clinton. Well?
Of course. Naturally. This is part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, trying to silence John Edwards. It has nothing to do with his failed ideals, his class warfare rhetoric, his $500 haircuts or his extravagant house.
With the left, it's never about their personal conduct. It's 'do as we say, not as we do' and 'only we are smart enough to tell you how to live'.
Yes your right... the Republicans are paragons of virtue until their caught redhanded and like the 'emperors new clothes' tell us all we are mistaken, Smoke and mirrors. Morally bankrupt the party of Ann Coulter, Hannity O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Bush, Cheney, Haggerd, Delay, Rumsfield you have some many role models to be proud of...
Who said anything about Republicans? That's part of your problem: you only see the world in terms of Democrat vs Republican, and you associate left vs right with those parties. So when someone points out a flaw with the left, you have a knee jerk and start talking about Republicans. If I said something about apples, would you start retorting about oranges.
Start thinking for yourself, and start that by thinking.
Excuse me how many left leaning Republicans or Libertarians or Independents do YOU know? the only other party that might qualify being the Green party. I am a progressive Independent FYI.The examples I cited all happen to be members of the neocon GOP. You are the one throwing around labels with such disdain, In your mind left=liberal..
There's not excuse for you. Lets see, you said "republicans", "libertarians", "independants", Green", "progressive", "neocon" (a made up word at that), and you accuse me of throwing labels around? Get a grip.
By the way, I don't associate left with liberal. I actually know what that word means. But, you just love applying labels, so go on in ignorance if you wish.
"Failed ideals?" Do you mean the ones so very like the ones that saved the United States from the Great Depression and the world from Nazism, Fascism and Imperialism? And this is very much about John Edwards's personal conduct. He wants people of his class, including himself, to shoulder their fair share of the country's burden. The Republican candidates want to cut their own taxes and say they're doing us a favor.
Fair share? So the wealthiest 3-4% of Americans shouldering more than 60% of the total tax burden is not "paying their fair share"? How about your 15% in comparison. It's YOU that's not paying a "fair share"!
John Edwards and his ideals didn't save jack from anything. And if you weren't in the habit of tossing around words you didn't know the meaning of just because they sound good, then you might realize that fascism - government control of private resources - is precisely what Edwards and his party are about.
You are patently wrong! What Bush&CO. with the help of the complicit corporations are attenpting to achieve right under our nose is as Karl Rove states "The one party system" you sir, need to do your homework. You show your ignorance and true lack of understanding of the current political climate. If you really believe what you just posted, or perhaps you just like to verbally spar?
I'm not 'patently' wrong. Please look words you don't know up in the dictionary before using them. We're having a disagreement in which I posit that Edwards is a hypocrite, and you respond with "oh yeah, but look what Bush, Rove, and blah blah blah".
You're defending a hypocrite and a malignant narcissist, and you can't even face up to those charges. What do you think a guy who spends $500 of his own money on a haircut is going to do with the American People's money?
Literally every one of the major presidential candidates have spent major amounts of money on their appearance. Why? Because when they don't, newspapers like the NY Times and WashPost rip them apart.
If you really think that Romney or Thompson or Hillary or Obama haven't spent huge sums on things the average American might find frivolous, you're living on another planet. The issue here is that the media is focusing exclusively on one (1) Edwards haircut.
You Edwards nutjobs just don't get it. It's not the haircut! It's the intensity and duration of the primping and preening. It's the narcissistic tool underneath ther hair the media focused on.
Gotcha. So it's not the haircut. But it is the haircut. You're brilliant dude.
FWIW, I'm not an Edwards guy. But I do think he's getting unfairly dumped on. That being said, it's pretty clear where you come out, somewhere south of Stupidville to be sure.
Or maybe I'm just a Dem tired of Swift Boat type attacks (e.g., "Al Gore invented the Internet") emanating from the "liberal media" that only target Dems.
Why don't you talk about Giuliani's $2000 suits or the fact that Thompson wears makeup everywhere?
Maybe you GOPers should spend more time trying to get your politicians to actually try to fix the country (Terri Schiavo doesn't count) and less time criticizing Dem politicians in the primaries.
"...Or maybe I'm just a Dem tired of Swift Boat type attacks ..."
you think the swift boat vets who spoke out against Kerry were liars? Thurlow and Odell were at the 3rd PH incident. They said there was no gunfire from the shore. What, you think the upperclass Kerry could not tell a lie?
Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet. The clip is here on YouTube. Gore's another malignant narcissist. (I'm surprised he hasn't claimed to have invented Global Warming yet.)
Thompson is an actor. Of course he wears makeup 'everywhere'. He probably has a personal makeup artist. Which, incidentally, can give a very good haircut for far less than $500.
Maybe you should stop trying to defend an indefensible party, and start defending an idea.
You sure talk a lot about narcissism for a guy defending the party of trophy-wives, populist play-acting with rented pickup trucks, and aircraft carrier deck photo ops.
Whoa, kind of went off on a bizarre tangent and missed my point, huh? Fascist *Italy*. I was referring to World War II, and the FDR-style Democratic ideals -- which John Edwards champions -- that helped to win it.
Unlike you, I actually understand the words I used. For instance, FDR-style 'democratic' ideals were fascist. And they prolonged America's suffering. Anyone who has studied history knows the US was the last major industrial power to emerge from the Great Depression.
Oh, and for the record: Fascism = extreme right ideology, and fervently anti-liberal. From the Doctrine of Fascism itself: "[Fascism] affirms the irremediable, fruitful and beneficent inequality of men."
Since when has state control of private resources been a right wing idea? It isn't. You're so screwed up it's not even worth arguing with you. Get a dictionary before you say anything else.
(Hint: Fascism = state control of privately held resources under a dictatorship. In other words, one step away from communism.)
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
This is the direction we are moving in in this country if we don't do something about corporate control of our political process. That's actually why I like Obama a little more than Edwards. Both are good candidates, but Obama emphasizes political reform more than progressive policies.
What corporate control? Is nike whispering in your ear when you enter the voting booth? Does Exxon press the button for you? No. You've obviously bought into the left-wing propaganda that somehow you're not responsible/involved with what happens in government. You're misdirected - the greatest tool of magicians, con artists, and $500-haircut-politicians.
Do you honestly trust media conglomerates to report objectively on any of their broad and countless self-contained corporate interests? Do you trust corporate media conglomerates to report objectively on politicians who desire to regulate those interests and challenge their monolithic conglomeration? Those are the common concerns over corporate control. I suspect you knew that and were being obtuse for fun.
I need to read a dictionary? You need to read an encyclopedia. But now that you've publicly revealed your extremism by calling FDR a fascist, I suppose I can stop going round with you and let that stand as a testament to your quality of judgment. Have a nice life, hammerattack (??).
FDR imprisoned thousands of Japanese Americans in concentration camps. He took property and land away from private owners - some family farmers - and reappropriated it. He placed entire industries under direct control of the executive branch. If you don't see FDR as a fascist, it's only out of ignorance and delusion, not because you have any clue about history.
MEMO TO LIBERALS: I'm back from Barnes and Noble. Edwards new book Ending Poverty in America costs $25.95! Dang, he must be banking 15 bucks a copy on that one. Too bad poor people can't afford it.
Edwards is just one of many contributors on that book, FYI at the library it's free. BTW poor people need an advocate to fight the very system that keeps them poor, it not just a circumstance of birth or laziness. The corporate system is rigged for the have and have mores not the have nots. You have to be rich to play the game.... then beat them at it!
John Edwards thinks he's Robin Hood.. when he's not paying for 400 dollar haircuts of course.
Castaril 2 years ago
@Castaril that sound very much like the 90s. Bill Clinton got that same shit on him for expensive haircuts too
Kimmis1990 5 months ago
John Edwards has an insatiable appetite for black cock.
jackeroo02 2 years ago
I miss you!
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Onebodaciousdude 3 years ago
Goodnoght Mama. Goodnight Daddy. Good night Jason. Good night Ben. GOOD NIGHT JOHN-BOY! Go back and get a job in the meee-al. Asshole. Way to waste millions of tax-payer (remember, the people you CARE so much for) matching fund dollars. You npile of shit.
sonofrattler 4 years ago
hes a douchebag
Ollieotsenfree 4 years ago
john you suck
sjpones3 4 years ago
"At first, the haircuts were free. But because Torrenueva often had to fly somewhere
on the campaign trail to meet his client, he began charging $300 to $500 for each
cut, plus the cost of airfare and hotels when he had to travel outside California.
Torrenueva said one haircut during the 2004 presidential race cost $1,250 because he
traveled to Atlanta and lost two days of work."
- Wash. Post 7/5/07
ilocarapid 4 years ago
It doesn't matter what the means of production cost, the only thing relevant to consumers is the final price. The fact is that John Edwards is willing to pay $400 for a haircut, whether that cost is due to travel expenses of the hairdresser or due to the hairdresser using gold scissors is irrelevant.
Castaril 2 years ago
"The Democrat's campaign committee picked up the tab for two haircuts at $400 each by celebrity stylist Joseph Torrenueva of Beverly Hills, California, according to a financial report filed with the Federal Election Commission. -AP 4/17/07
ilocarapid 4 years ago
how does a guy that pays $400 for a haircut stand for change. sounds like just another rich politician planning on using the force to solve problems with not real plan.
mordred612 4 years ago
stopit mom and siser
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RenaissanceRoss 4 years ago
Listen to you for the next eight years? Well, Sen. Edwards, that depends on how you do for the first four (less if we have to impeach you).
MooseOfReason 4 years ago
CFR members will sell poor Americans down the river for the sake of cheaper labor from immigrants or outsourcing. You lie, Mr. Edwards. The only thing you have going for you is your hair.
eyeofhebeholder1 4 years ago
hmm...nice speech, wonder how much his haircut cost
violin94 4 years ago
I don't care what anybody says that hair cut is BAD ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
azoltan 4 years ago
haha. the old people are so cute. they can't remember what he was just talking about but they clap 'cause they liek his hair.
NightmareNewman 4 years ago
lol
autopsy87 4 years ago
I think the message he's trying to make here is,
"Should you trust a man who will steal 1,250 dollars from his own campaign fund to spend on a haircut for himself to be the president of the United States?
Of coarse you shouldn't! That would be insane!" -John Edwards, on himself being unfit to lead.
simbelmont 4 years ago
1 star. Next time show someone being tazored.
lolavex 4 years ago
omg nice hair lulZ
tenaciousjohna 4 years ago
nice hair cut how much did it cost
vorpal12351 4 years ago
What a fag
davyjames 4 years ago
You want uni health care john then you and those who agree can pay for it yourselves. Let you actions speak for themselves john, show me the money. Hell, you could treat these people in your ENERGY HOG 28,200 Sq ft. mansion john.
wqvsaa 4 years ago
I pity all you dolts who are fooled by this fool edwards. He is such a two faced hypocrite. All one has to do is a little research and you will see john edward deeds are NOT consistant with his words.
wqvsaa 4 years ago
President John Edwards, that rings true for me. He has asked us to look at all the candidates and decide for ourselves who we think will stand up for us. I haven't heard any of the others say that.
pilotsdaughter 4 years ago
Actually John Edwards has said he will pay for the Universal Healthcare System by rolling back the Bush tax cuts on the rich!
nycswl2006 4 years ago 2
an establishment free candidate! finally!
fedeman2 4 years ago
What a douche!
Media wants to shut him up? The only reason he thinks they want to shut him up is because Edwards HAS NOT SAID how a "universal health care system" will be paid for. Ah...more taxes!
End the war in Iraq? We did end it, back in 1991. Saddam refused to end it, so we had to take him out again.
Why doesn't he address taxes? Security? Welfare? Research and Development? Instead he's babbling about the liberal media wanting to shut him up....?!
musico81986 4 years ago
He's dead-on about the American people being purposely distracted by the mainstream media from critical issues. YouTube is a real blessing in that it brings many voices about many issues into our homes ~ and we choose what we want to see and hear. This is my first post ~ glad to be here!
scarletsneakers 4 years ago
EDWARDS speaks with sincerity about the causes he believes in while people focus on his overpaid haircut which of course every candidate out their overspends on appearance related items. Unfortunately society has become obsessed w/looks and so candidates due their best to enhance their looks. Go beyond looks - Edwards is our best hope as a nation!!!
KimKinMIA 4 years ago 2
As Edwards in his Gucci shoes tries to make you belive 60% taxes is great just so a pack of thugs can lineup and clog the health care system I just keep saving my money.
xxxxoxxxx9 4 years ago
Every public figure has to spend money on their damn hair. Hillary spends more than Edwards. John is right, they are only trying to distract the public from the real issues. John Edwards is a good honest man and we need him in the White House leading this country.
mccarts72 4 years ago
Go JRE!
ivotejre 4 years ago
Any man who spends $400. per haircut out of his campaign funds would spend tens of thousands on his hair if the presidency fell into his hands.
WiZSOC 4 years ago
What a load of baloney, Justin. Edwards is one of the most vocal critics of NAFTA.
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
And as for "having plans," try logging onto the Edwards website and looking at his detailed policy proposals. Or, hell, actually bother to click a mouse and check out some of the other videos on YouTube. I realize the corporate media is determined to silence him, but that's also no excuse for such laziness on the part of voters.
spyder130 4 years ago
If your policies are screwing the average American over, you've got to cater to their irrational prejudices and fears, and that's exactly what Republicans have been excellent at for the past 25 years.
spyder130 4 years ago
This is too funny. Republican voters vote with their heads? Your party resorts to putting such bullshit issues on the ballot as anti-gay marriage amendments just so their backward base will crawl out of their holes and vote. They resort to God, guns, gays, swiftboats, and haircuts because they know if the dialogue turns to the substantive issues that affect working people's lives, they'll come out on the short end every time.
spyder130 4 years ago
I'm sorry, but it doesn't seem like you have a plan, you just make up reasons and arguments against them. You said nothing in this video, and want a vote?
ddstar 4 years ago
ddstar, you're spewing the same tired old Republican rhetoric that Democrats have no plan. Go to JohnEdwards website and you'll find several plans. All you have to do is read the Issues section... if you can read.
Craigo87 4 years ago
whoa whoa whoa, don't attack my education on reading, all I said is in this video he stated nothing.
I looking at his issues and they all seem borrowed and promised. They have no backing at all to them, no hard facts and no reason WHY it needs to change. It's just thrown out their.
ddstar 4 years ago
He says he gave that amount to charity, which would also provide tax benefits for Edwards.
He declined to show proof, however, that he donated the $500,000 advance or $300,000 expense checks to charity.
Meanwhile, yesterday attacked Hillary Rodham Clinton for taking more than $20,000 in donations from News Corp.
Lvmyh2 4 years ago
Lv our posts fall on liberal deaf ears. The intellectual disconnect here is that liberals think with thier feelings and conservatives think for themselves based on real information and facts. The overweleming sentiment here however is that Edwards is a real tool.
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
LOL, When did he get upgraded?
Lvmyh2 4 years ago
"Conservatives think for themselves based on real information and facts," as opposed to "with their feelings"? Look up "Pavlovian Response," then read the following: "Communism," "9/11," "taxes," "gays," "secular," "ACLU," "Jane Fonda." I'll bet you wake up in a voting booth, having voted straight R ticket.
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
August 3, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of the media mogul's companies.
Lvmyh2 4 years ago
Of course, just one haircut would have fed a family of four for two weeks. And he's reportedly had at least three of these bank-breaker haircuts. Maybe there is something to this "taking from the rich and giving to the poor". A tax on expensive haircuts
Lvmyh2 4 years ago
MEMO TO LIBERALS: Another week and Edwards is floundering against Clinton and Obama. More proof that even the most gullible are not buying into his B.S. BTW, I havn't heard much from Elizabeth lately. Could it be she's too busy changing the 3481 energy efficient light bulbs it takes to illuminate the ubermansion?
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
Huh?
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
MEMO TO LIBERALS: This weeks Newsweek magazine says Edwards RFK wannabe poverty campaigne is lame and Edwards in "no RFK".
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
John Edwards is a beauty queen. Support Huckabee.
HuckabeeForPresident 4 years ago
Of course the Republicans don't want to spend federal money on the NAFTA Super Highway. They don't tax Americans, they sell America. They want private companies in other countries, such as Cintra in Spain, to fund it (who will in turn own toll booths along the highway). At least that's what Republican Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Republican Party are trying to do here in Texas with their planned Trans-Texas Corridor, the starting point for the NAFTA Super Highway.
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
I encourage you to read John Edward's book Four Trials before you judge him as just another trial lawyer. He represented everyday people who were seriously wronged by big business. He is a compassionate man from modest beginnings who made it. He doesn't flaunt that. He wants every American to have the same opportunity. Find out more about him before you decide.
mblackburn2 4 years ago
The GOP's trying to "swiftboat him"
The GOP could care less about Edwards he isn't a threat to anyone in the party. You libs provide an endless source of entertainment.
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
Courtesy Rasmussen, for July:
Edwards - 52% vs. Romney - 36%
Edwards - 50% vs. Thompson - 39%
Edwards - 49% vs. Giuliani - 42%
Edwards - 45% vs. McCain - 38%
Correction: Edwards is a threat to *everyone* in the GOP.
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
He is the biggest threat yet to the GOP, all white men
just like him. They really don't believe Obama
and Billary have a chance against them. Listen to the
dope Hannity, who gets invited to the White House by
Bush.
jein08 4 years ago
alright, apparently i missed it. what the hell is wrong with his hair? is it that he pays hundreds of dollars to maintain it?
leftxunbroken 4 years ago
Why don't you try a hair salon on Madison Avenue or perhaps Rodeo Drive, see how much they charge and if you get your hair done at home, it can cost upwards of $1200. which is what everyone else that's a millionaire spends on their hair, who want to support the hairdressers of America, the working class people.
jein08 4 years ago
I'm trying to figure out if you're just enlightening me or if you're being a dick. Please clarify. No, seriously though, no one needs to spend hundreds of dollars on a haircut. So, I really hope, for the sake of intelligence, that you aren't condoning hundred-(thousand- even)dollar haircuts.
By the way, good job on replying to nearly every comment. Wow, you have stamina!
leftxunbroken 4 years ago
-- big insurance companies, big drug companies, big oil companies -- they are not going to negotiate. They are not going to give away their power. The only way that they are going to give away their power is if we take it away from them.. Edwards
WTFNTZSJ 4 years ago
For fear of getting sued, you would reduce your exposure too.
Edwards and his greedy cohorts caused the problem
Lvmyh2 4 years ago
This is the utmost in hypocrisy on Edward?s part since he was the one conspiring with Hillary to shut up other Dem candidates by preventing their participation in future debates.
Lvmyh2 4 years ago
Oh and the GOP doesn't want to cut out Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter?
factusnonverbus 4 years ago
Wat to go JOHN BOY!! Never, ever SHUT UP. Edwards is right, the GOP's are trying to "swift boat him" the way those sleazy liars did to Kerry.
God Bless John and Elizabeth Edwards. I am voting for you for our next President!!
imtrueblue2007 4 years ago
Definitely not an accident. The MSM is in the hand of their Republican owners not the people, and the owners are pleased as punch with the incompetence of the Republican party.
BottyGuy 4 years ago
Way to go John, I prefer candidates that fight back.
Hmmm, doing an online search at my local papers web site I find the following:
"Edwards Haircut" - 28 articles.
"Romney Dog" - 0 entries
so no mention of Mitt Romney's fondness for traveling with his dog tied to the roof of his car.
"Romney Make up" - 0 entries
No mention of Mitt's $300 make up jobs.
BottyGuy 4 years ago
If this imbecile is elected he will promise each poor family a $400 stipend so that one member can get a good haircut. He needs to go back to chasing ambulances; oh. but then he would have to admit to making $100 million a year. What a total moron!
Lvmyh2 4 years ago
Incoherent, ad hominem and juvenile! You got the tri-fecta of stupidity covered.
factusnonverbus 4 years ago
John Edwards does not have $100 million, I think you
are mistaking him for Mitt Romney who just happens to
have $250 million +. I think you know who the moron is.
jein08 4 years ago
God I love the angry John Edwards so much more then when he tried to be nice in 2004.
nanana345 4 years ago
Trippi - why are you making "hair" such a big issue? Kind of a distraction if you ask me.
techRepublican 4 years ago
daytraderaz1 not only do you make an idiotic point but you are also very foolish to believe that the other major presidential candidates arent concerned about their looks and that they dont pay about as much as john edwards did for haircuts and such, look at mitt romney who payed 300 dollars for make up services recently. politicians have always been concerned about their looks, so start worrying about the actual policies that the candidates are putting forth and not about haircuts
zormysaurus 4 years ago
zormysaurus, are these people really as dumb as they come off? No wonder Bush was elected twice(well actually once) but what the hey! If they chose a candidate by haircut or wealth or any number of superficial reasons, it goes to prove the dumbing down of our media has been successful.The Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Star magazine mentality. I am down with a bad back so lots of time on hand...and had not visited these sites before. What an eyeopener, and I must say not for the good.
valjeanne613 4 years ago
Who wants to shut him up? The Fairness Doctrine advocates? Oh...he is one. Playing on the ticket of the ones who can't think for themselves. Oh, yeah...universal healthcare...we already have it. Leave it alone before you eff it up.
pztvleeir8 4 years ago
"These people who make a $100,000,000 a year" ... John, you're like the pot calling the kettle black. John, I think your speeches about fighting the rich ring a little hollow. Remember Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us." (Us = You!)
commocean 4 years ago
John Edwards helped the little guy sue the big companies, so it's not the pot calling the kettle black.
lol998 4 years ago
Right! He got rich helping the little guy. John just wanted to do good and in the process did quite well! He should be in the H-of-F alongside the other pro bono's: Mussolini made the trains run on time. Hitler built roads. Mao killed 20-30 M, all rich capitalists. (The Red Guard was more or less like our trial lawyers; people just helping the little guy.) And don't forget Stalin. So many nice people helping the poor. I, too, like John. I'm inexplicably attracted to rich hypocrites.
commocean 4 years ago
FDR was rich and helped the poor. I don't see why Edwards can't do the same. At least he is willing to pay his share to help them, unlike the people he is complaining about who would rather get a second yacht then help someone in need.
factusnonverbus 4 years ago
Conservative controls the media???? LOL what a little cry baby! Let's see ABC, CBS, NBC, MCNBC, CNN, etc... Hmmmm I think these are all liberal media companies.... What a moron! Vote for me and I will put a chicken in every pot..HAHAHAHA
Lvmyh2 4 years ago
Did you fall out of 2002 or something? CNN gives shows to racists reactionary republicans like Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs. Not exactly how I'd run my liberal version of Fox News. The media are giant corporations, which aren't exactly liberal institutions.
factusnonverbus 4 years ago
It's the rich corporations that own the media, usually republicans, if they are not supporting
one this year, it's because they are embarrassed.
jein08 4 years ago
I like John Edwards, but this gets a little conspiratorial. The pundits like their chucklefests. They had one with Romney hunting "varmints" because Romney is courting gun owners. They had one with Edwards on the hair thing because he is talking about wealth and poverty. The media are predictable on these things. It's not a conspiracy though.
playjurist 4 years ago
Not a conspiracy, just negative press, so people won't take him as a serious candidate.
jein08 4 years ago
phillip Edwards made his career by convincing juries full of toothless, banjo stummin' moonshiners that birth defects were the fault of doctors and hospitals. With the genetic testing we have today some of those cases would not have been won. They were won on sympathy not fact or accurate expert testimony. In fact many of the cases that followed were settled out of court and Edwards was heralded by his fellow trial attorneys as one of the best ambulance chasers of all time. A true statesman!
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
Hey Zero, I am beginning to think you have a personal vendetta against Edwards, perhaps on the losing end of a law suit??? hmmmm. Either that or you enjoy spewing half truths or just plain lies....But why? Why do you spend so much time on this thread? Seems a bit obsessive to me. I support Edwards and have a vested interest, but why are you here? Who & Where is your candidate?
valjeanne613 4 years ago
Edwards is a champion of all that is good in America. He's made his career sticking up for little people against teams of lawyers and experts in courtrooms, and has continued this as a statesman.
philipmontag 4 years ago
Oh my! This guy is evil! 'They' are spending millions of lobby dollars to get laws that force people to buy their healthcare insurance. I understand why the industry giants have to pretend they don't want all of america to be forced to buy their product, but this guy spews his lies with passion. Scary.
shyoung0801 4 years ago
What lies? Not only do we have 47 million people without health insurance, but we have people being refused treatment who actually have health insurance.
I think that he wants to bring a better life to the poor and the middle class.
Please tell me one lie he said in that video?
lol998 4 years ago
Sorry, I thought I clearly identified the lie. It's the idea that the healthcare industry would want to shut up people arguing for a system that forces everyone to buy their products. "Oh no, please don't subsidize us with tax dollars!!!"
shyoung0801 4 years ago
The health care industry would love for us to subsidize health care, but what people like John Edwards wants to do is bring national healthcare, which would hurt the health care companies because it wouldn't be private business for profit.
They love subsidies, but they hate public health care.
lol998 4 years ago
To call that a "lie" is a bit much no? Are you seriously contending the big insurers are all in favour of Edwards' plan?
factusnonverbus 4 years ago
After shaking down doctors and insurance companies, causing the cost of medical care to skyrocket, you should be the last one talking about FIXING the problem.
THATS WHY insurance premiums are out of reach for some.
Lvmyh2 4 years ago
No, it isn't. It's because insurers have no interest in insuring sick people, so they purposely price them out of range.
factusnonverbus 4 years ago
THAt POLLING SAMPLE WAS A WHOPPING 400 PEOPLE FROM IOWA FROM RESARCH 2000. THAT SAME GROUP HAS CLINTON AT 27% NATIONALLY AND EDWARDS AT 10%. NICE TRY AND NICE SPIN.
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
"...THAt POLLING SAMPLE WAS A WHOPPING 400 PEOPLE FROM IOWA FROM RESARCH 2000. THAT SAME GROUP HAS CLINTON AT 27% NATIONALLY AND EDWARDS AT 10%. NICE TRY AND NICE SPIN. ..."
democrats are all about politics. little to no interest in policy. big government is ruining the lives of the working poor.
Democrats are all about making people more dependent on them, so they are trapped into voting their way.
-Steve
denvillesteve 4 years ago
People don't choose their party's nominee nationally, it's in the early states. Last election, Kerry's win in IA skyrocketed him into the primaries. Who cares that a national poll lets us know what people in Wisconsin and Colorado think - they don't have any impact on the nominee. Spin. Sure. He's consistently been ahead in IA for months now.
Liberwelk 4 years ago
your caps lock is stuck on
factusnonverbus 4 years ago
MEMO TO LIBERALS: Edwards is polling at 27% in IA, with Hillary @ 22% & Barack @ 16%. The rest of the country doesn't decide who becomes the nom, it starts in IA. Rock on, John!
Liberwelk 4 years ago
Why should people get punished for making more money? For a moment, I though Johnny was talking about fair tax, 10% tax on sales and nothing else. That would be fair.
AndrewFisher16 4 years ago
MEMO TO LIBERALS: From the book Who Really Cares
The percent of people that give to charity is higher among poor people who don't believe in income redistribution than rich people who favor income redistribution.(It is easy to want to give other people's money away and pat yourself on the back for advocating it, all the time calling people uncompassionate for not agreeing with you.)
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
MEMO TO LIBERALS: This week's average of a the polls now has Edwards a distant FOURTH with 10.5% of the democratic vote. Gore got 13% if that says anything. Further proof that even hard core dems think he's a phoney.
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
He stands up for the poor because he has the means to. The poor can't speak for themselves. No one listens. You have to ask yourself, "what is in this for him?". I'm curious to know, from you, why you think a man who has enough money to do whatever he wants in life would want to be President. Maybe he really cares, maybe he likes challenges, maybe he likes power. . . I don't care. I think Edwards will make a good President.
WayOver 4 years ago
"...He stands up for the poor because he has the means to. The poor can't speak for themselves. No one listens ..."
dont't you see that the larger government becomes, the worse off the poor are? The poor are aflicted with more obesity, dropping out of HS, single parent homes, males in prison, underemployment ... in increasing numbers.
Edwards only offers more government intervention. He is wrong.
-Steve
denvillesteve 4 years ago
Umm, dude, no serious economist or anyone who actually knows what they're talking about has ever made the argument that government intervention in the marketplace is necessarily bad for the poor. Go back and listen to Rush again: the correct libertarian argument (which is still wrong, empirically) is that government intervention into an unregulated marketplace is bad for the economy as a WHOLE.
You might try reading an Econ 101 book at least before offering prescriptive Econ advice.
Whiskeycreek 4 years ago
"...no serious economist ... has ever made the argument that government intervention in the marketplace is necessarily bad for the poor ..."
Milton Friedman did. Thomas Sowell does. The government should help the poor, but democrat politicians and voters are oblivious that too much assistance harms rather than helps. The bigger the government, the fewer the number of poor families with two parents.
-Steve
denvillesteve 4 years ago
No actually they didn't. You'll find plenty of arguments that regulation shrinks overall growth, sure, but you won't find anything where anyone respectable argues that a direct regulation in favor of the poor is bad for the poor.
Also, are you really arguing against tax code fairness, or govt intervention into healthcare when we already pay a record level of GDP into a broken system?
Whiskeycreek 4 years ago
"... you won't find anything where anyone respectable argues that a direct regulation in favor of the poor is bad for the poor. ..."
you democrats cant think for yourselves? You have to defer to "respectable" experts? ;)
I just read in Syracuse 25% of HS students graduate on time. High dropout rates are devastating poor communities. Students drop out because their family structure has been destroyed by democrat "assistance" programs.
denvillesteve 4 years ago
Gotcha. So your position has changed from:
-"Economists believe that federal regulation hurts the poor" to "I believe, based on 1 or 2 things I think, that federal regulation hurts the poor".
There are frankly a lot of reasons we have huge poverty, and certainly fed programs are inefficient. That being said, the increase in poverty, not surprisingly, has increased directly with a drop in federal assistance and federal regulation since the early 80s.
Whiskeycreek 4 years ago
"... the increase in poverty, not surprisingly, has increased directly with a drop in federal assistance and federal regulation since the early 80s. ..."
what assistance and regulation has decreased since the 1980s?
-Steve
denvillesteve 4 years ago
Also, denville, why do you think family structures have been destroyed by "assistance" programs, which weren't accused of destroying families from the 40s-70s? Why wouldn't you think it's any one of a number of other things, such as the fact that 2 income households with multiple jobs are now the norm, meaning less time for parents to spend supervising kids. Or TV. Or rampant materialism. Or crappier schools. Etc. etc. etc.
Whiskeycreek 4 years ago
"... why do you think family structures have been destroyed by "assistance" programs ..."
Life can be hard, frustrating and unfair. But work and consistent effort can overcome these obstacles, resulting in people being satisfied with their achievements. Too many government handouts discourages the hard work needed to overcome life's difficulties.
-Steve
denvillesteve 4 years ago
"... are you really arguing against tax code fairness ..."
the most unfair part of the tax system is that people are forced to pay into social security. %12.4 of your income. What a waste!
In HS, teach students to be roofers, plumbers, truck drivers, mechanics, electricians, ... Government dependency is a dead end street. Better that people go to work every day than get a government check.
-Steve
denvillesteve 4 years ago
Actually, the most unfair part of SS taxation is the fact that it's regressive, and capped at $90,000, so it's less than 12.4% for people making more than $90,000. Modern SS taxation is actually a Republican invention, implemented by Reagan at Greenspan's urging in 1983 or so. We raised payroll taxes hugely (and that tax was capped at a certain income), and that money was SUPPOSED to be locked away for social security. In fact, it was spent for other things like tax cuts and defense spending.
Whiskeycreek 4 years ago
"... the most unfair part of SS taxation is the fact that it's regressive, and capped at $90,000, so it's less than 12.4% for people making more than $90,000 ..."
tax rates for the "rich" over $90,000 range for 25% to 35% of total income. Would be great for the country if everyone paid %12.4 in taxes.
-Steve
denvillesteve 4 years ago
1) I agree re hard work and handouts. But I also know that unregulated markets have never rewarded hard work per se.
2) People under $90k pay way over 12.4% in taxes, obviously. They pay 12.4% in SS taxes, along with income taxes, sales and use taxes, etc. By any gauge today, the typical millionaire is paying less in total taxes as a % of total income than someone making $50k. And that's wrong, imo.
Whiskeycreek 4 years ago
"...People under $90k pay way over 12.4% in taxes, obviously. They pay 12.4% in SS taxes, along with income taxes, sales and use taxes, ..."
right, but Edwards would not allow a 2 parent family making $90k to put their %12.4 FICA into a private retirement account. $10k per year, at 5% interest, for 40yrs is close to $1million at retirement time. The Edwards, one size fits all, government retirement system sucks.
-Steve
denvillesteve 4 years ago
Which is basically another way to say:
Stop parroting RW talking points, and instead please point out specific Edwards proposals, and then explain why those are bad for the poor.
Whiskeycreek 4 years ago
Oh yeah, and Bush continues to cut border security while increasing spending war in Iraq, which is well known to foster anti-American sentiment and is a breeding ground for terrorists now. Man, stop listening to the b.s. on fox news. it's rotting your brain.
bigbadmuthafukkah 4 years ago
Edwards speaking up for the poor while getting 400 dollar haircuts is a bit retarded. It's about as bad as guiliani running for president while dressed as a woman, or American saying it's a democracy while voting bush family in twice and about to vote clinton family in twice. google old USSR's re-election rates. They're lower than USA, and yet USA calls itself a democracy....yeah, sure.
bigbadmuthafukkah 4 years ago
STFU Until you trade in your posessions including your internet connection to feed the hungry you have no room to talk. You are just as bad as Bush.
Montgomeried 4 years ago
Why would I trade my internet connection to feed the hungry? That's the dumbest thing I ever heard of. Go buy a "support our troops" sticker made in china and pretend to support your troops by sending them to wars based on lies, you hypocrite. As for helping the poor, you don't know wtf I do, so go do America a favor and suck some bush cock.
bigbadmuthafukkah 4 years ago
Can you clearly outline your logic as to why he can't do that?
He's a candidate for the president. So he pays more for his haircut? Your argument seems like a complete non-sequitur.
rftluong 4 years ago
He's standing up for the poor but he has 400 dollar haircuts. How can he understand the poor when he shells out that much for something most people pay 20 bux for? Come on, man. It's clear he's out of touch with the average man. Next thing you'll be telling everyone is that it's okay for Americans to die for lies because the command-in-chief said so. Land of the free, home of the brave.
bigbadmuthafukkah 4 years ago
So I can't help the hungry because I have plenty of food to eat? I'm a hypocrite when I say we need to end war because I have an abundance of peace in my life? Go ahead and live like a bum and see how many people take you seriously; 'cause at the moment, I can't think of a single poor American who has brought policy change for the rest of the 1 in 8 Americans living in poverty.
Liberwelk 4 years ago
Actually, John Edwards worked in a mill. He's come from a working class family and worked his way to the state he's in today.
rftluong 4 years ago
I love this guy! Self-made man which is a nice contrast to the fratboy in chief - and Edwards has always worked for the little guy - this is not a new political tack. It's tiring to read inane insults from the right when we've just watched the repubs run the most corrupt congress ever and now out of power they are obstructionist with bush even vetoing health coverage for children! - ties to Abramoff and Duke Cunningham - lying a nation into war and occupation for 5 years
knoxinsocks 4 years ago
"...It's tiring to read inane insults from the right when we've just watched the repubs run the most corrupt congress ..."
Big government corrupts everyone it touches. Democrats want to make government even larger, more intrusive.
"...with bush even vetoing health coverage for children!..."
The more government provides for the well being of poor families, the less needed will be husbands. The poor are decreasingly likely to have intact families because of growing government.
denvillesteve 4 years ago
Oh poor Johnny. The man is trying to shut you up? Give me a break! Get over yourself. Your ideas are nothing new. It's the same old class warfare, big government entitlement programs that fail. All you really care about is getting votes and gaining power. You rely on people's stupidity and emotions for your own gain.
Dialgaboy 4 years ago
Dialgaboy I have to say your comment pretty much sums up my day long diatribe in one concise comment. Kudos, I'll say nothing more (for now). You libs know you're beaten with the facts, and I don't need to defend myself as the sentiment on this bloviating, charlatan asshole speaks for itself.
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
all the Republicans offer is a return to bad old days of the gilded age and robber barons. Starvation and death in old age. The gap between the haves and have not is growing. So build your gated community your going to need to live there to avoid the angry starving masses.
russrap 4 years ago
Yeah? And what kind of car do you drive?
Ovedya2006 4 years ago
The difference is that the Swift Boat attacks were almost completely false, while the haircut attacks are 100% true. And to pretend he's getting laughed at just because he's moved far to the left is ridiculous.
MattBellamy1 4 years ago
John Ewards is an idiot
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KILLAKILLAK 4 years ago
what i think... i think that these politicians just adapt to the current trend... they say what ever they need to get people vote for them. Bunch of hypocrits... like you edwards
Aivopieru 4 years ago
I'm sorry, I don't understand. What do you even know about John Edwards? But isn't it great that because of our free system, you can say things that are mean and your speech is protected?
TheKiddy3 4 years ago
Control the media????? jeeze. And NO, we wont be listing to your for the next 8 years.
Birdmon1 4 years ago
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junefroggert 4 years ago
Of course. Naturally. This is part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, trying to silence John Edwards. It has nothing to do with his failed ideals, his class warfare rhetoric, his $500 haircuts or his extravagant house.
With the left, it's never about their personal conduct. It's 'do as we say, not as we do' and 'only we are smart enough to tell you how to live'.
hammerattack 4 years ago
Yes your right... the Republicans are paragons of virtue until their caught redhanded and like the 'emperors new clothes' tell us all we are mistaken, Smoke and mirrors. Morally bankrupt the party of Ann Coulter, Hannity O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Bush, Cheney, Haggerd, Delay, Rumsfield you have some many role models to be proud of...
valjeanne613 4 years ago
Who said anything about Republicans? That's part of your problem: you only see the world in terms of Democrat vs Republican, and you associate left vs right with those parties. So when someone points out a flaw with the left, you have a knee jerk and start talking about Republicans. If I said something about apples, would you start retorting about oranges.
Start thinking for yourself, and start that by thinking.
hammerattack 4 years ago
Excuse me how many left leaning Republicans or Libertarians or Independents do YOU know? the only other party that might qualify being the Green party. I am a progressive Independent FYI.The examples I cited all happen to be members of the neocon GOP. You are the one throwing around labels with such disdain, In your mind left=liberal..
valjeanne613 4 years ago
There's not excuse for you. Lets see, you said "republicans", "libertarians", "independants", Green", "progressive", "neocon" (a made up word at that), and you accuse me of throwing labels around? Get a grip.
By the way, I don't associate left with liberal. I actually know what that word means. But, you just love applying labels, so go on in ignorance if you wish.
hammerattack 4 years ago
"Failed ideals?" Do you mean the ones so very like the ones that saved the United States from the Great Depression and the world from Nazism, Fascism and Imperialism? And this is very much about John Edwards's personal conduct. He wants people of his class, including himself, to shoulder their fair share of the country's burden. The Republican candidates want to cut their own taxes and say they're doing us a favor.
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
Fair share? So the wealthiest 3-4% of Americans shouldering more than 60% of the total tax burden is not "paying their fair share"? How about your 15% in comparison. It's YOU that's not paying a "fair share"!
Ovedya2006 4 years ago
John Edwards and his ideals didn't save jack from anything. And if you weren't in the habit of tossing around words you didn't know the meaning of just because they sound good, then you might realize that fascism - government control of private resources - is precisely what Edwards and his party are about.
hammerattack 4 years ago
You are patently wrong! What Bush&CO. with the help of the complicit corporations are attenpting to achieve right under our nose is as Karl Rove states "The one party system" you sir, need to do your homework. You show your ignorance and true lack of understanding of the current political climate. If you really believe what you just posted, or perhaps you just like to verbally spar?
valjeanne613 4 years ago
I'm not 'patently' wrong. Please look words you don't know up in the dictionary before using them. We're having a disagreement in which I posit that Edwards is a hypocrite, and you respond with "oh yeah, but look what Bush, Rove, and blah blah blah".
You're defending a hypocrite and a malignant narcissist, and you can't even face up to those charges. What do you think a guy who spends $500 of his own money on a haircut is going to do with the American People's money?
hammerattack 4 years ago
Literally every one of the major presidential candidates have spent major amounts of money on their appearance. Why? Because when they don't, newspapers like the NY Times and WashPost rip them apart.
If you really think that Romney or Thompson or Hillary or Obama haven't spent huge sums on things the average American might find frivolous, you're living on another planet. The issue here is that the media is focusing exclusively on one (1) Edwards haircut.
Whiskeycreek 4 years ago
You Edwards nutjobs just don't get it. It's not the haircut! It's the intensity and duration of the primping and preening. It's the narcissistic tool underneath ther hair the media focused on.
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
Gotcha. So it's not the haircut. But it is the haircut. You're brilliant dude.
FWIW, I'm not an Edwards guy. But I do think he's getting unfairly dumped on. That being said, it's pretty clear where you come out, somewhere south of Stupidville to be sure.
Whiskeycreek 4 years ago
Whiskey you ARE an Edwards guy or you wouldn't be trying so hard to defend him, you're as phoney as he is.
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
Or maybe I'm just a Dem tired of Swift Boat type attacks (e.g., "Al Gore invented the Internet") emanating from the "liberal media" that only target Dems.
Why don't you talk about Giuliani's $2000 suits or the fact that Thompson wears makeup everywhere?
Maybe you GOPers should spend more time trying to get your politicians to actually try to fix the country (Terri Schiavo doesn't count) and less time criticizing Dem politicians in the primaries.
Whiskeycreek 4 years ago
"...Or maybe I'm just a Dem tired of Swift Boat type attacks ..."
you think the swift boat vets who spoke out against Kerry were liars? Thurlow and Odell were at the 3rd PH incident. They said there was no gunfire from the shore. What, you think the upperclass Kerry could not tell a lie?
-Steve
denvillesteve 4 years ago
Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet. The clip is here on YouTube. Gore's another malignant narcissist. (I'm surprised he hasn't claimed to have invented Global Warming yet.)
Thompson is an actor. Of course he wears makeup 'everywhere'. He probably has a personal makeup artist. Which, incidentally, can give a very good haircut for far less than $500.
Maybe you should stop trying to defend an indefensible party, and start defending an idea.
hammerattack 4 years ago
You sure talk a lot about narcissism for a guy defending the party of trophy-wives, populist play-acting with rented pickup trucks, and aircraft carrier deck photo ops.
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
When did I ever defend a party? Oops! I didn't. But thanks for showing everyone your incapacity for thought.
hammerattack 4 years ago
Whoa, kind of went off on a bizarre tangent and missed my point, huh? Fascist *Italy*. I was referring to World War II, and the FDR-style Democratic ideals -- which John Edwards champions -- that helped to win it.
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
Unlike you, I actually understand the words I used. For instance, FDR-style 'democratic' ideals were fascist. And they prolonged America's suffering. Anyone who has studied history knows the US was the last major industrial power to emerge from the Great Depression.
hammerattack 4 years ago
Oh, and for the record: Fascism = extreme right ideology, and fervently anti-liberal. From the Doctrine of Fascism itself: "[Fascism] affirms the irremediable, fruitful and beneficent inequality of men."
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
Since when has state control of private resources been a right wing idea? It isn't. You're so screwed up it's not even worth arguing with you. Get a dictionary before you say anything else.
(Hint: Fascism = state control of privately held resources under a dictatorship. In other words, one step away from communism.)
hammerattack 4 years ago
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
This is the direction we are moving in in this country if we don't do something about corporate control of our political process. That's actually why I like Obama a little more than Edwards. Both are good candidates, but Obama emphasizes political reform more than progressive policies.
playjurist 4 years ago
What corporate control? Is nike whispering in your ear when you enter the voting booth? Does Exxon press the button for you? No. You've obviously bought into the left-wing propaganda that somehow you're not responsible/involved with what happens in government. You're misdirected - the greatest tool of magicians, con artists, and $500-haircut-politicians.
hammerattack 4 years ago
Do you honestly trust media conglomerates to report objectively on any of their broad and countless self-contained corporate interests? Do you trust corporate media conglomerates to report objectively on politicians who desire to regulate those interests and challenge their monolithic conglomeration? Those are the common concerns over corporate control. I suspect you knew that and were being obtuse for fun.
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
I need to read a dictionary? You need to read an encyclopedia. But now that you've publicly revealed your extremism by calling FDR a fascist, I suppose I can stop going round with you and let that stand as a testament to your quality of judgment. Have a nice life, hammerattack (??).
ILoooooveCamels 4 years ago
FDR imprisoned thousands of Japanese Americans in concentration camps. He took property and land away from private owners - some family farmers - and reappropriated it. He placed entire industries under direct control of the executive branch. If you don't see FDR as a fascist, it's only out of ignorance and delusion, not because you have any clue about history.
hammerattack 4 years ago
same people that bitch that never vote!
tinkleToez2000 4 years ago
MEMO TO LIBERALS: I'm back from Barnes and Noble. Edwards new book Ending Poverty in America costs $25.95! Dang, he must be banking 15 bucks a copy on that one. Too bad poor people can't afford it.
zeroguesswork 4 years ago
Edwards is just one of many contributors on that book, FYI at the library it's free. BTW poor people need an advocate to fight the very system that keeps them poor, it not just a circumstance of birth or laziness. The corporate system is rigged for the have and have mores not the have nots. You have to be rich to play the game.... then beat them at it!
valjeanne613 4 years ago