Edwards List Reasons to Vote for Him Over Obama
Posted on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 08:09:46 PM EST
Tags: John Edwards, Barack Obama, Iowa 08 (all tags)
During a speech in Iowa today, a voter asked John Edwards why Iowans should vote for Edwards over Obama. Edwards gave two reasons, one he called substantive and one political.
As president, Edwards said, he would be more successful in fighting the powerful corporations and interests that he says control America’s health-care system and other important areas.
Obama, he said, would take a more conciliatory approach. “He talks about bringing drug companies, insurance companies, oil companies, etc., to the table and working with them and negotiating and compromising,” Edwards said. “I just think that’ll never work. If that would work, it would have worked years ago. If that worked, we’d have universal health care. We don’t.”
....we need somebody who’s ready for this battle.”
On the political side, Edwards said he's more electable. [More....]
he is more likely to win the general election because he can appeal to voters in states that have gone Republican in the past.
“This is not an academic exercise. We have to win,” Edwards said. He cited a recent CNN poll showing he is the only Democrat who tops every leading Republican in hypothetical, head-to-head matchups. “If you want to win, you’re looking at the guy who can go everywhere in America with a real message of fighting for change … and can compete in every single place in this country.”
Obama's advisor replies:
...."Barack Obama has done more to take on the special interests and win than anyone else in this race, and he's the one candidate who's spent his life solving problems by bringing Democrats and Republicans together.....
I don't know about you but that doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling about Obama. I want someone who can fight Republicans, not just compromise with them.
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