By SusanUnPC on May 15, 2008 in Barack Obama, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards | 145 Comments
QUESTIONS GALORE: Will Edwards help Obama in Kentucky? (We know Edwards won’t move a vote.) Will Edwards now give up his position on universal health care? Will someone ask him?
As noted by many here, the meaningless endorsement of Obama by John “Pretty Boy” Edwards was designed to bury Hillary’s “devastating defeat by [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 15, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, Women and Children | 33 Comments
We’ve written many times about Elizabeth Edwards at this blog: in “Elizabeth Edwards Prefers Hillary’s Healthcare Plan“; in my report on an earlier L.A. Times article indicating her preference for Hillary’s health care plan; in “Kneecappers,” which includes an account of Elizabeth’s impressions of Obama at a meeting at the Edwards’s home; and in “From [...]
By Bud White on Apr 9, 2008 in Barack Obama, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John Kerry, North Carolina | 26 Comments
The Boston Globe is reporting that Elizabeth Edwards prefers Hillary’s health care plan over Obama’s, and that she thinks that there’s no problem if the nominating process goes to the convention. These statements are raising eyebrows with Hillary supporters, particularly since Obama supporter John Kerry said Hillary’s health care plan was a “non-starter” in the [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 31, 2008 in Barack Obama, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards | 47 Comments
Los Angeles Times, March 31, 2008:
[Elizabeth] Edwards said she favored Hillary Rodham Clinton’s healthcare plan over Barack Obama’s.
“Sen. Clinton’s plan is a great plan” that closely resembles John Edwards’ proposal, she said. Clinton’s plan mandates that every American be insured. Elizabeth Edwards said only universal healthcare would resolve one of the problems plaguing the healthcare [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 29, 2008 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Hoodwinking, John Edwards | 60 Comments
Oh, and lest anyone here still think that Obama’s an angel — that he’s your messiah come to save the United States of Amerikkka and the entire globe — let me inform you that it wasn’t some anonymous DNC official who invented and then whispered the line about Tonya Harding last week to ABC’s Jake [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jan 22, 2008 in Barack Obama, Health Care, John Edwards | 22 Comments
“[The A.P.] reported that Sen. Obama could have ‘a pretty good debate‘ with himself: “If he wanted, the Barack Obama of today could have a pretty good debate with the Barack Obama of yesterday.” — The Fact Hub
(The transcript of last night’s debate is below the fold.)
Here’s what Elizabeth Edwards had to say, via CBS [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jan 3, 2008 in Health Care, John Edwards, Obama | 6 Comments
I’ve become increasingly concerned about the embellishments, the falsely slanted re-writings of newspaper accounts, and the smears coming from Barack Obama and his campaign.
Here’s Annenberg Political Fact Check.org on “Obama’s Creative Clippings: Selective, embellished and out-of-context quotes from newspapers pump up Obama’s health plan.”
Obama’s ad touting his health care plan quotes phrases from newspaper [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jan 2, 2008 in Clinton, Democrats, John Edwards, Obama, Republicans | 28 Comments
Despite his rhetoric about “change” and getting rid of “special interests,” Obama is hiring professional lobbyists throughout his campaign organization, announcing today that professional lobbyist and “former South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges” joins his campaign as “national co-chair.” (MSNBC)
Elizabeth Edwards spoke out, via CBS News, on “the ad [claiming] that Obama’s health plan covered more [...]