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SUNLEN MILLER, ABC NEWS - In an interview in August's edition of The
Progressive magazine, Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Senator John
Edwards, D-N.C., takes candid shots at the other candidates battling for
the Democratic nomination against her husband.
"The problem for me with the other candidates is I don't know what it is
that drives them," she explained, "I should think the president has to
be somebody who has that kind of vision outside themselves."
Mrs. Edwards praised her husband for apologizing for his vote in favor
of the Iraq War, and questioned Senator Hillary Clinton's, D-N.Y., for
not doing the same. . .
And while Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., was in the Illinois state
legislature and not the Senate in 2003, Mrs. Edwards equally questioned
his motives.
"Obama gives a speech that's likely to be extraordinarily popular in his
home district," Edwards said, "and then comes to the Senate and votes
for funding. . . so you are going to get people behaving in a
holier-than-thou way.". . .
Taking aim at Obama, Mrs. Edwards continued, "I don't know why it took
six months, but I'm glad he has a (health care) plan now. It doesn't
cover fifteen million people. If you're one of those fifteen million,
it's not universal for you. The fact that he says he'll fix it later,
that's not the kind of bold response we need on a problem that is
important to America."
Mrs. Edwards added that any divide in the Democratic party this year
among the candidates is the difference between "actual Democrats and
rhetorical Democrats."
"Sometimes it seems we have these beliefs but it turns out it's like a
Hollywood set: It's a facade and there's no guts behind it," Mrs.
Edwards asserts in the interview, "You listen to the language of what
people say, particularly Obama, who seems to be using a lot of John's
2004 language, which is maybe not surprisingly since one of his
speechwriters was one of our speechwriters, his media guy was our media
guy. These people know John's mantra as well as anybody could know it."
"They've moved from 'hope is on the way'," the potential first lady
concluded, "to the 'audacity of hope'. I'm constantly hearing things in
a familiar tone."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/08/elizabeth-edwar.html
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SUNLEN MILLER, ABC NEWS - In an interview in August's edition of The
Progressive magazine, Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Senator John
Edwards, D-N.C., takes candid shots at the other candidates battling for
the Democratic nomination against her husband.
"The problem for me with the other candidates is I don't know what it is
that drives them," she explained, "I should think the president has to
be somebody who has that kind of vision outside themselves."
Mrs. Edwards praised her husband for apologizing for his vote in favor
of the Iraq War, and questioned Senator Hillary Clinton's, D-N.Y., for
not doing the same. . .
And while Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., was in the Illinois state
legislature and not the Senate in 2003, Mrs. Edwards equally questioned
his motives.
"Obama gives a speech that's likely to be extraordinarily popular in his
home district," Edwards said, "and then comes to the Senate and votes
for funding. . . so you are going to get people behaving in a
holier-than-thou way.". . .
Taking aim at Obama, Mrs. Edwards continued, "I don't know why it took
six months, but I'm glad he has a (health care) plan now. It doesn't
cover fifteen million people. If you're one of those fifteen million,
it's not universal for you. The fact that he says he'll fix it later,
that's not the kind of bold response we need on a problem that is
important to America."
Mrs. Edwards added that any divide in the Democratic party this year
among the candidates is the difference between "actual Democrats and
rhetorical Democrats."
"Sometimes it seems we have these beliefs but it turns out it's like a
Hollywood set: It's a facade and there's no guts behind it," Mrs.
Edwards asserts in the interview, "You listen to the language of what
people say, particularly Obama, who seems to be using a lot of John's
2004 language, which is maybe not surprisingly since one of his
speechwriters was one of our speechwriters, his media guy was our media
guy. These people know John's mantra as well as anybody could know it."
"They've moved from 'hope is on the way'," the potential first lady
concluded, "to the 'audacity of hope'. I'm constantly hearing things in
a familiar tone."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/08/elizabeth-edwar.html
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