John Edwards - America Rising - Iowa Tour Kickoff

[CRYtoGodforLIBERTY]

This guy is such a phoney POS, I look on here and see so many people who have no clue what integrity is or when they are being taken to the cleaners by a professional politician. This guy is about as sincere as Vince, the Sham-Wow guy. LOL. What a load of pap for the masses.

[dedebiren]

John, you had a great chance of becoming the US President. How could you be soooooo stupid & let your little head think for you big head?  You are now scum to me.

[insaynejayne2]

John "the Breck Girl" Edwards.....you disgust me!

[CherubimandAngels]

John we need you now more than ever.

[jtvagop]

there are two americas

One where men cheat on their cancer stricken wives and one where they don't.

[osamaobamayomomma]

♫♪♫ Love child never ment to be... ♪♫

[kanard7]

The media already decided the president.

Listen to Edwards SPEAK OUT!

They have manipulated the republican race to choose the most warmongering candidate so Clinton would have an easy ride.

Support Ron Paul

He doesn't cater to lobbyist, he wants us out of Iraq.

They pushed a good candidate out of the race, don't let it happen again, together we can change America. Join the revolution!

RON PAUL 2008

[earthlvr]

What has this got to do with Romney? Why don't you go to a Romney video to talk about him? Why isn't Romney talking about the 200,000 homeless vets, like Edwards. Why isn't Romney talking about the foreign lobbyists that are influencing bad trade deals for the U.S., which are sending our jobs to other countries?

[mydodgers1]

Romney has some incredible economic and business accomplishments that would really be an asset to our country at this time. I think everyone should consider the benefits his experience can have for our economy. He pretty much has raised several nearly bankrupt business's back up from the dust. He is an obvious optimist, and seems to accomplish pretty much any endeavor he puts his mind to. He did amazing things for Massachussets with health care and the whole insurance problem.

[earthlvr]

Edwards is the ONLY candidate NOT taking money from lobbyists and PACs! He's also got the best environmental plan and endorsed by Friends of the Earth Action.

[dirty06maggot]

go johnny

[hollywoodextra]

You've never seen a politcal spot like this one! Click "hollywoodextra" then click on "Single Black Female Seeks White Male Democratic President".

[treatyourselftolunch]

GET EM', JOHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bs2174]

No FairTax no vote Edwards, The Income taxes and payroll taxes stink to high hell, look at our month to month pay stubs. I wan't 100% of my checks plus a prebate check every month. No more home taxes or taxes on anything used or pre-owned. Fairtax dot org.

[erkekler]

Unrestrained laissez-faire policies very nearly destroyed the USA, and capitalism along with it, in the years leading up to 1929. Government intervention by FDR saved America and saved capitalism. A more activist role for government is again necessary in order to create conditions for broad prosperity. Watch Bob Kuttner debate Bill Kristol on YouTube in "Can Conservatives be Trusted to Govern?".

[jbsabbath8]

To say FDR saved America from the Great Depression is a delusion. If you know economics or history you would know that FDR had no economic experience and did not care about it. It was the Fed Reserve that caused the Great Depression. When government controls the money supply you are bound for inflation

[papabear777]

TO VICTORY! TO VICTORY! TO VICTORY! TO VICTORY! TO VICTORY!

We can be assured of one thing - the Democratic candidate should easily beat any GOP challenger. They have lost their ways and the occupation of Iraq, bending over backwards to please B*sh, & many other issues (gas, environment, etc) will damn them to a loss!

[haldenver]

Edwards is under-estimating the voting propensity, and desires of his chosen audience: poor folks in the "shit" are less likely to vote ; and they believe in the American Dream, not socialism.

[erkekler]

The American dream is presently almost a thing of the past for those not coming from at least a comfortable, if not downright affluent, starting point because of the astronomical increase in education costs.

[texasdame]

He didn't "steal" your name. "America Rising" is different from "Operation America Rising."

You stay tuned.

[buffman316]

I am the Founder of Operation America Rising. We are a support the troops organization. Our name is established under the not for profit code in the United States on America. John Edwards completely stole our name.

Stay tuned

[papabear777]

That's cool what you do, and God bless your group, but the term America rising is far from unique. My friend wrote a Christian song called that about 20 years ago and an author named his book that in '03. Again, thank you for doing what you do, it effects those I love.

JRE '08!

[xdhimmi]

Wow, I can't believe the Edwards campaign appropriated the name of a pro-victory group, Operation America Rising, that was established close to a year ago! What's up with that?

operationamericarising-dot-com

[papabear777]

the term america rising has been used before in many ways. a 2003 novel for example (of many).

nearly everything imaginable has been said or done before by someone. I love what the group does that you mentioned though.

take care!

JRE '08!

[MamaBear2008]

We need this man in the White House!

[vtzc]

im from europe and i support john edwards, because this is the kind of politicians we have in europe where much things run better

[caliwmn760]

I HEART John Edwards!

[LIGO4less]

for the first time in decades working people have a chance to elect someone who'd fight for them. IOWANS DON'T LET THIS GUY DOWN, REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS! John Edwards is the perfect example of limitless oportunities this country can give anyone of us. He rose from being poor to be rich. he's gonna be ALL America's president. JOHN EDWARDS IS A UNITER, VOT FOR EDWARDS, MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE!

[ytdsmom]

LIGO: Yep, you're right! He wants "limitless opportunities" by limitless taxes being deducted from my paycheck. Don't u feel less of a man/woman?? Take responsibility of your own life.

[aaronbmartin76]

I am not sure what your actual tax burden is or will be once Edwards is elected, but I don't understand what planet people who freak out about taxes come from. We pay very little taxes in this country and how exactly do we pay for the nation without them.

[ytdsmom]

aaron: I don't freak out over paying taxes in general. What I do freak out over is that 1/2 of my income is taken already & the dems have already vowed to take more. Why don't they concentrate on spending FIRST??

[aaronbmartin76]

I think that probably they are just trying to prepare everyone for the eventuality. Rep have been pushing no taxes in a totally irresponsible manner for years and perhaps the Dem just think they must be overly straight forward.

[ytdsmom]

Mr. Edwards,

I'm so excited about your candidacy! If you are elected, I trust your word that you will raise taxes more. Since 50% of my income goes towards taxes already, I'll be better off collecting welfare or I'll file for Soc Security benefits because I get charlie horses + my hemorrhoids have been giving me trouble lately. I certainly won't have to worry about a health ins policy anymore with you in office! I'll have everything I need. Good luck John!

[gothicseed]

Haha Your sarcasm is lost on me.. mainly because all those tax dollars you're now (subtly) whining about are going towards the Military industrail Complex and this goddamn war!! Good luck with your head in the sand humor and..um, NEXT!

[aaronbmartin76]

No, the Military Industrial Complex isnt even being paid for yet, it is all unfunded debt. It is paid for out of absurd loans to us by foreign governments or by stealing money from the Social Security and Medicare trustfunds. You see if we take money from these trust funds then the Republicans don't have to raise taxes to support their policies and then they can say that these programs are failing because the trust funds aren't getting the compound interest that they should.

[weirdoveirdo]

You, like so many others, don't actually understand the debt issue. All countries are always in debt to each other, and they always have some cash on hand. Our issue is we don't have cash on hand, to pay off the debts slowly. And nothing goes directly to the Military/Industrial Complex. It is a subtle system that thrives on situations like this. It has its roots in the capitalist, imperialistic system we have today.

[ytdsmom]

The problem is that the dems want to reclassify what "rich" is. I would argue that $97,500 for a family of 5-6 is NOT "rich".

[aaronbmartin76]

Which Democrat is talking about these kind of numbers. I think what they are talking about are the rich helped by lower or no capital gains taxes, inheritance taxes, tax breaks for oil, defense, and pharma industries etc. Not what a normal family is. In fact I think that is barely middle class by his definition.

[aaronbmartin76]

Sorry Weirdo your right ME and SO MANY OTHERS are just idiots. I am just glad that you can explain the extreme complexities of economics. I beleive it is only difficult to the extent that people want it to be. The point is the 500 Billion spent on this War was not covered by any revenue trail. It was not part of any budget, and it is not actually paid for by our governments income. My comment was primarily meant to be light and a little sarcastic.

[weirdoveirdo]

That's fine, sorry if I came off that way. I was really agreeing with you, but I got really confused by that particular issue last year, so I wished to clarify it for others. The whole situation is really strange. Sorry about that.

[judywatt]

You know the old saying "If you want to keep getting what you're getting, just keep doing what you're doing."

Call me crazy, but I prefer peace and prosperity myself, so I can't wait to see ANY Democrat elected.

I guess you'd rather have us continue to squander our resources, make more enemies everywhere, and just generally hammer some more nails in the coffin of what used to be a great country.

[judywatt]

This was intended as a reply to ytdsmom below.

[ytdsmom]

judywatt: The point was raising taxes to yet again cover the "poor" w/Univ Health Care. Frankly, I am tired of more & more of my paycheck gone to the govt for ppl who expect the country to take care of them. At the same time, they bitch about the military. 1/2 of my income is already gone in taxes....we are inching upon communism. What's next? Hey...let's pay everyones utility bills. That's a necessity right?

[iamjacobs]

ok, so it doesn't matter WHO becomes the next president, taxes will still have to be collected... it will always be this way... Mr. Bush and his "brilliant" war has seen to this. Mr. Edwards wants to raise taxes for the higher income folks, which will help to lower taxes for us middle class people. He wants to work for us... open your eyes! we NEED to get a Democrat back in the white house. VOTE EDWARDS!!

[ytdsmom]

The problem is that the dems want to reclassify what "rich" is.  I would argue that $97,500 for a family of 5-6 is NOT "rich".

[ytdsmom]

iamjacobs: Raise taxes for the higher income folks you argue. Have you not heard of AMT that already penalizes ppl in the higher income bracket?

[weirdoveirdo]

not nearly enough. money up to 1 mil a year should be taxed the way it is. Every penny over 1 mil should be taxed at 80-90%. So if you make $1,000,001, then that $1 should be taxed at 80-90%

[weirdoveirdo]

Let's privative the police, and the fire departemnts too, right? And who cares about the poor, after all they're just a bunch of lazy whiners, right? Let's justlet them starve. ytdsmom, you have no perspective. What happened to democracy? Society before the indavidual was it's basic principle. This is crazy.

[aaronbmartin76]

God, you must not understand what he is saying. He wants to raise taxes on the wealthy Americans who are paying about 15-20% of their income, and lower taxes on the Middle and Lower Socioeconomic scale who do currently pay the largest percentage of their income to taxes.

[VIVANOVACHICAGO]

Thank You John!!! SPREAD THE SANITY!!!!

We are in a "Horton Hears A Who" moment in history !!!! ;-)

My "voice" is with you too.

[STYMEDZ]

America is not ready for Obama's "hope" ideals and we've already heard the "uniter" promises. He and Clinton both accept donations to their campaigns from the all the same folks that have bought and corrupted our federal government for the past 16+ years. Edwards doesn't. He has less money. But he backs up his "change" platform with actual change, RIGHT NOW, by not allowing those corrupting influences in his back pocket while he campaigns.

[ptrferdinand]

Barack Obama does not accept donations from lobbyists/special interests. Do some research to corroborate your assertions.

[weirdoveirdo]

untrue. He, like Edwards, does it quietly, but he does. They are called bundlers.

[weirdoveirdo]

This is a request, not an insult to anyone. Everyone, go to Edwards' own website. Read his policies carefully. Then think about them, and what they REALLY mean. Edwards as he is selling himself is only skin-deep.

[phyllisfiredwards]

I reply to your comment as an honest debate and not an insult in any way! PLEASE go back to Edwards' web-site again and look and read again as you have invited all here to do, and realize the hope and vision he offers is entirely possible for you and for us all!

Look again my friend and as you do, realize THIS IS REALLY POSSIBLE!!

[weirdoveirdo]

I have, multiple times, because it is hard for me to change my beliefs. Here are my biggest problems: 1)Line-item veto (he want it) 2)He will not abolish the Patriot Act 3)He will not get rid of the health care companies 4)He co-authored the bill to give Bush the power to go to war.

[gothicseed]

With all due respect.. what is your POINT? What SPECIFICS do you dislike? Please .. your comment isn't worth responding to unless you have specifics!

[weirdoveirdo]

1)he want line-item veto power 2) he will not abolish the patriot act 3)he will not get rid of health care companies 4)he co-authored the bill to give Bush the power to go to war.

I recommend looking up Kucinich, no matter what you may have heard.

[gothicseed]

I like Kucinich.. In fact Id love to see an Edwards/ Kucinich ticket.. if only Edwards would go for Single Payer Health Insurance.. I agree ist the best way. But he's got a good chance against Hillary & Obama.. Talk about bowing to the Health Ins. Companies!At least Edwards is for MANDATED (everyone) Health Care.

[weirdoveirdo]

I'd like to see a Kucinich/Edwards ticket. Edwards because he's marketable, and Kucinich because he's good as hell. I agree that Edwards' health care plan beats Obama's or Hillary's, but it does not solve the main problem, which is that the companies put $ before care, and do not provide care when it is actually needed, and would cost them and amount of $. Any plan that is not government-run, tax-funded health care should be moot. And what about the other problems?

[gothicseed]

I hope Edwards' people are reading your comments because I couldn't agree with you more.. if only people would watch MM's "SiCKO" rally behind the idea of (egads!) Socialized medicine like Canada, England, France etc. and see that it's all about the PEOPLE..rich AND poor..and NOT CORPORATE AMERICA!! Maybe I'm too hopeful but it's not too late to start screaming UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE until someone listens.. Thanks Weirdoveirdo for your intelligent comments. Thumbs up.

[weirdoveirdo]

If you want to get something done, you had better be ready to make some noise!"-Malcolm X

Words of wisdom if there ever were any.

[aaronbmartin76]

Socialized Medicine gets everyones hair up, why not just call it what it is, Public Medicine like Public Schools or Public Works or Public Police and Fire Services.

[weirdoveirdo]

OK, fine. What's your point? If you want me to defend calling it Socialized medicine, I don't care, but I'll try, I guess: Public medicine sugessts poor care.

[aaronbmartin76]

I think you misunderstood me, I just wanted to show that while this becomes so divisive with people acting like it will make us a "socialist" society these other "public" services don't bother people. I think we need public healthcare or socialized healthcare or what ever you want to call it.

[weirdoveirdo]

Fair enough. Public health care it is!

[gothicseed]

good point. It is what it is.. Michael Moore makes the same point. it's a public service like all the above and more. I'd rather pay taxes for health then stupid lame brain wars!

[nocodeyield99]

Not only his he a great caniddate, he is the best hope for America. We need a leader like John Edwards to take back our country.

[jackthe71special]

GO JOHN GO!!!

[marratha]

good energy, good spirit, good video -- great candidate.