Catfish-and-Grits

After careful consideration I have made decision to support John Edwards for President, during the primaries. Since I'm Georgia I don't get to vote until Feb 5, but I can't wait to vote. I want to discuss why I'm voting for Edwards, and not against Obama and Hillary, since both are equally qualified to be president. And whoever gets the nomination I will support in the general election.

I like the fighting spirit in Edwards. He is raising the issues in a way no one wants to talk about like:

• 47 million without health insurance
  
  
• 37 million can just barely feed their families
  
  
• 200,000 of our military veterans will go to sleep under a bridge tonight because the current jackass we have as a president wanted to make the war profiteers rich.
  
  
• The out-sourcing of hundreds of thousands of jobs just so you America, yes you, can buy cheap things at Walmart, and other places
  
  
• College tuition is through the roof
  
  
• Constitutional violations like spying on Americans, data mining, starting fake wars, politicizing agencies within the government that should never be politicizing like the Justice Department

With the mega-corporation being the foundation (i.e. behind the veil) for most of what listed above, Edwards is right. You can't sit at the table with entities and sing "Kumbaya". You can't except their money, and challenge then at the same time. Corporation have had a plush deal with the Republicans (and some Dems known as Blue Dogs), but with winds changing they know the Democrats will probably have control of Congress and the Presidency. So they have started donating to Democrats, and unfortunately some dems have fallen for it.

Not Edwards.

As a matter of fact, Edwards is being blacked out by the media, because they too are own by the mega-corporation. And even with that he is still getting an average of 20% of the vote. So this is still a 3-three way race even though those in the pundit world are trying to make it a 2 person race. But what really was the icing on the cake was when I saw this article:

U.S. corporate elite fear candidate Edwards
By Kevin Drawbaugh

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Ask corporate lobbyists which presidential contender is most feared by their clients and the answer is almost always the same -- Democrat John Edwards.

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"My sense is that Obama would govern as a reasonably pragmatic Democrat ... I think Hillary is approachable. She knows where a lot of her funding has come from, to be blunt," said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Group Co., a market and policy analysis group.

But Edwards, Valliere said, is seen as "an anti-business populist" and "a trade protectionist who is quite unabashed about raising taxes."

"I think his regulatory policies, as well as his tax policies, would be viewed as a threat to business," he said.

"The next scariest for business would be Huckabee because of his rhetoric and because he's an unknown."

Edwards is pissing off the right people, indeed. I'll leave you with this vid