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I’m just trying to imagine the strategy session meeting with the Edwards camp in coming up with the $8 figure that is suppose to eradicate poverty.

His campaign team STILL has not grasped the concept that a man living in a crib with mad acreage, high priced haircuts, charging a speaking fee of $55,000 to talk about poverty, folks are just suppose to say ah fuck it, none of that matters if we send out enough of these bullshit e-mails people will forget that.
But the liberal genius Trippi will tell his peeps well it worked for Howard Dean, just put George Bush or Republicans hates the poor and that is guaranteed fundraising gold.
Fucken idiots!

One in 8 Americans currently lives in poverty. George Bush is ignoring all 37 million of them. We need to stop ignoring poverty—and make ending it a national priority.

John Edwards is launching the Road to One America Tour next week to shine a light on the 37 million Americans who live in poverty. If we don’t stand up for them, who will? George Bush and his corporate buddies won’t. The lobbyists in Washington won’t. And since the media can’t stop talking about Paris Hilton, you can bet they won’t help shine a light on it.

Will you help end poverty by giving $8?

That’s why we need you. You can stand with us by making a small but meaningful contribution of just $8 to support the only campaign dedicated to ending poverty in America in 30 years.

For four decades, Joseph Torrenueva has cut the hair of Hollywood celebrities, from Marlon Brando to Bob Barker, so when a friend told him in 2003 that a presidential candidate needed grooming advice, he agreed to help.

The Beverly Hills hairstylist, a Democrat, said he hit it off with then-Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina at a meeting in Los Angeles that brought several fashion experts together to advise the candidate on his appearance. Since then, Torrenueva has cut Edwards’s hair at least 16 times.At first, the haircuts were free. But because Torrenueva often had to fly somewhere on the campaign trail to meet his client, he began charging $300 to $500 for each cut, plus the cost of airfare and hotels when he had to travel outside California.

Torrenueva said one haircut during the 2004 presidential race cost $1,250 because he traveled to Atlanta and lost two days of work.

“He has nice hair,” the stylist said of Edwards in an interview. “I try to make the man handsome, strong, more mature and these are the things, as an expert, that’s what we do.”

Read the rest if you want but why bother

The Edwards camp should just pack it in. When a candidate’s hairstyle is the biggest attention getter you know your campaign is doomed.
I was shocked to find that the Washington Post would even do this article; I thought it was a joke.
The Edwards campaign clearly went into clown mode when Liz Edwards had to play bully protector to her husband because he was too chicken shit to take on Coulter himself in a shameless fund raising ploy. Another hair story I guess to explain themselves, but why?

Other than John McCain this is clearly the worst run campaign this cycle.

I don’t count people like Brownback because someone has to take you seriously before you can become a “candidate” for President.

Ya know I like Ann Coulters writing and enjoy reading her editorials. I however am not so amused when she goes on attacking rants because in my mind it is unnecessary.
However, this latest flap with Mrs. Edwards she is so dead on and I’m glad even the media is seeing through the latest fake outrage.

Below is another letter mentioning Coulter and O’Reilly and as Ann said using it to raise money. These people are such scam artists.
This is the difference between a well run campaign machine (Mrs. Bill) and a desperate failing campaign.

On the Democrat side it’s a two horse race and they know it, so let’s get some attention by attacking two high profile right wing pundits, how stupid.
Chris Matthews was likely paid big bucks to stage that call in bullshit, but Ann frankly bitched slapped Mrs. E.

It further illustrates that neither John Edwards nor his supposedly sick wife are very bright when it comes to campaigning.

John should try to scam another university into giving him $50,000 for another bullshit speech. Jackass!

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All week we’ve seen the personal attacks come flooding in from Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly and the rest of the right-wing smear machine.

But the real story this week is not them—it’s you. It’s the explosion of grassroots support from folks all over the country who stood up to help us fight back and put us within $1 million of our goal.

We now have 72 hours to hit our goal of $9 million. Seventy-two hours to fight slurs with substance. Seventy-two hours to keep this campaign on track to win. And it all comes down to you. Please give what you can:

We’re fighting back the right way—by taking John’s message of change straight to voters. Earlier this week, our first TV ad in New Hampshire hit the airwaves with John’s inspiring call to action: it is time to ask Americans to be patriotic about something other than war.

You should see the way people in New Hampshire are responding to the ad. But don’t take my word for it—check out the ad yourself. We need your help to keep it on the air in New Hampshire and cut through the noise all over the country.

We’ve only got 72 hours to hit our goal and we need your support today.

Our momentum is growing all over the country. Just last night, 5,000 of John’s supporters gathered at nearly 400 house parties in every state. They talked live to John and Elizabeth, discussed the issues in this race, and made plans for taking this grassroots campaign to the next level.

You are the heart and soul of this campaign. You get what we’re about. You know that personal attacks from folks like Ann Coulter are just attempts to distract from the issues that matter. And you’re the reason her strategy can never succeed.

If you, me and everyone else on this email list gives what we can afford today, we can turn all of our small change into big change—the biggest kind of change for America and the world.

Please take a minute to check out our new ad, and give what you can afford today.

Thank you,

- Jonathan Prince
  Deputy Campaign Idiot
  John Edwards for President
  Thursday, June 28, 2007

As far as I’m concerned Edwards is done, it’s a two Democrat race and Mrs. Bill will soon eliminate the “Magic Negro”
But I find these fund raising e-mails amusing, they are just so sincere. GIVE ME MONEY AND WE NEED IT, YESTERDAY!

Yesterday, Jonathan told you that the folks who benefit from the status quo are attacking John personally because they don’t want the country to hear his message.

Timeout!!! I have never understood why liberals say those of us on the right want to SILENCE their ridiculous ramblings.

Why would we want to silence candidates like Edwards, the more he speaks the more irrelevant he becomes. Hell I would encourage idiot Edwards supporters to throw their money away and help him get his “message” across to the American people.

The more Edwards speak, the more I get to laugh!

And you know what happened when we called them out? The attacks started pouring in.

That same day, the Ann Coulter-wannabe Michelle Malkin blasted John on her blog. Fox News has been bashing him around the clock. And Coulter herself said, “if I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

We are fighting back, but we need your help. Give what you can today.

They are trying to put John away before he even gets started. Because they know what we know. They know that John has led on Iraq. That he has lead on universal health care. That he has led on global warming, on poverty, and on building One America.

And they are seeing what we’re seeing—poll after poll showing John outperforming all other Democrats against all Republicans. In the latest poll from Rasmussen Reports, John is the only Democrat to beat Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Fred Thompson—and by an average of 13 points!

What a fucken liar, his campaign is getting desperate.

If you’re a right-wing wing-nut, this is the scariest thing you can imagine—that the Democratic candidate with the boldest vision for America is also the most electable.

LOL! LOL! LOL! OH GOD THIS IS FUNNY

So they will stop at nothing to tear John down. We can stop them—but only if you stand up. We have 5 more days to reach our goal of $9 million. Give what you can today, and help us beat back this vicious tide.

We are counting on you—because we are not counting on corporate interests and D.C. lobbyists. John is the only candidate with a proven record of taking on corporate interests. He is the only candidate who hasn’t taken a dime from D.C. lobbyists or political action committees. He hasn’t sold out, and he hasn’t forgotten where he came from.

But that means we need you to reach our goal. You, and the hundreds of thousands of other supporters on this list. If we all give today, we can turn our small change into big change—big change for America and the world.

With your help, we will keep pushing John’s message in the critical early primary states. Today, we are launching a new TV spot in New Hampshire. People all across the state will hear John’s message: if you want big change on poverty, global warming, health care, Iraq—if you want big change on all the issues that matter most, then join our cause.

We need to hit our goal of $9 million by Saturday to keep this ad on the air and continue reaching voters in New Hampshire, Iowa, and other key states nationwide. To see the ad, to help us hit that goal, and to keep the wing-nuts shaking in their boots, please give what you can afford today.

Your time is now—and we are counting on you.

Sincerely,

–Joe Trippi
  John Edwards for President

My check is in the mail!!!! 

In case you missed this little You Tube clip…

From the Politico

Elizabeth Edwards was asked about gay rights on CNN last night, and gave some background to Bob Shrum’s claim that John Edwards felt uncomfortable with gays.

“I believe that Bob Shrum brought up the issues of gays and lesbians, and John said, you know, I come from a small southern town, Baptist, you know. … Honestly, he said, honestly an abstract issue for me because he said, you know, I don’t really know, as far as I know, know any gay people. … I said, well, actually you do.

“I referred to a friend of mine from English graduate school and how we had been out — John and I had been out for the evening. I saw this old friend from English graduate school when we were still in law school, and I went over and spoke to him, and I knew that he was gay, and I said, you know, I’m engaged. And there’s the fellow over there I’m engaged to. And he said, oh, he’s awfully cute. I might snake him if he wasn’t with you. And I told John that.

“And this is where he used the word ‘uncomfortable.’ He said, that made me feel uncomfortable. So Bob correctly remembers the word ‘uncomfortable’ but incorrectly remembers the circumstances in which he said it. All of us feel uncomfortable at someone snaking us — I guess in the presence — trying to snake us in the presence of our fiancee, and that made him feel uncomfortable, and John talked about that.”

UPDATE: A reader adds, “‘To snake’ is an old southern slang term for ‘to steal’ or
‘to sneak.’”

This is an actual fund raising solicitation from the Edwards campaign.
Just think some moron will actually contribute to this idiots campaign because of a pecan pie recipe. Amazing!
However what is more amazing is that his highly paid campaign advisors actually sat in a meeting, in a brainstorming session, and actually came up with this idea.
His campaign staff are as big a bunch of idiots as he is.

On 6-10-1953 John Edwards was born, and in six days John will be turning 54 years old.

John’s mom, Bobbie, asked all of us to help celebrate John’s birthday by contributing to his campaign—and has been sending her top secret pie recipe to anyone who contributes $6.10 or more to the campaign by June 10th.

The goal is 10,000 of us giving what we can by this Sunday. $19.53 for the year John was born or $54 because, well, that’s how “old” John is—or at least $6.10 by 6-10.

We are 1/3 of the way there. 3,000 members of our community are already celebrating John’s birthday with Bobbie’s secret pie recipe and contributing what they can to John’s campaign. And there is plenty of pie left! Remember it’s not how much each of us gives—it’s how many of us give.

In 1953 the cost of a new house was $9,550. You could fill up your car for $2.80. The middle class was the backbone of the economy. American car companies were leading their industry. The national unemployment rate was at an all-time low 2.9%. We all had a slice of the pie.

There is so much to be done and we need your energy and ideas to get it off the ground. Get a slice of the pie and help celebrate John’s birthday by contributing what you can by this Sunday.

This is an e-mail spam from the Edwards campaign.
I’m just wondering, what kind of intellectual slug would read this bullshit letter and actually think to themselves hey, let me send this hypocritical con artist a few dead presidents because this is the kind of leader America needs.

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Like you, we’re all very troubled that Congress is backing down to the president and getting ready to give him another blank check to keep the war going.

How could this happen?

Unfortunately, it’s simple. The president and his allies—the whole right-wing buzz machine—are doing what they do every time someone opposes them. They attack their patriotism, call them weak, castigate them for not supporting the troops and don’t let up until they get their way. That’s the whole point of the political doctrine they call the “global war on terror”—it’s a sledgehammer they use to crush opposition by twisting the meaning of patriotism, and it’s given us the worst abuses and biggest mistakes of the Bush Administration, from Guantanamo to the war in Iraq.

The only way to beat them is to stand our ground and not give an inch. That’s what John Edwards did today.

Today, he went to the heart of America’s foreign policy establishment and called out the Bush crowd for their misuse of patriotism. He had the guts to say what all of us know—that the Bush Terror Doctrine has failed our troops and failed America by straining our military to the breaking point and sowing chaos around the world.

John Edwards offered a clear plan to rebuild our forces and cure the damage inflicted on our military by Bush’s policies. He offered a vision of an America where moral leadership is once again the rule, and where we are stronger and more secure because of it.

So guess what happened?

The sledgehammer of the global war on terror came right out again—this time aimed squarely at John Edwards. Today, the national Republican party launched a vicious attack at John for asking Americans to speak out to support the troops and end the war.

They actually accused him of profiteering from the war because he’s asked for your support and even had the nerve to ask you to pay the cost of a tee shirt. Of course, if the RNC really wants to attack someone for profiteering, they should call Dick Cheney’s friends at Halliburton and ask them to return the billions of dollars they’ve made on a war that Dick Cheney promoted from day one.

Enough is enough. We need to reclaim patriotism from this crowd that has abused it over and over again.

We have a right to speak out. We have a right to stand up for our beliefs. And we have a responsibility to support the campaign that is leading the way and working to end this war.

So join us. Visit the website. Make your voice heard. Contribute to the campaign—whatever you can do. I just donated $100—even $10 will help. But make no mistake—the only thing more powerful than their sledgehammer is your voice, so we need your help right now.

Tell the White House, tell the country, tell the world—John Edwards, you, all of us—we are patriots, and we will not be silenced by their terror rhetoric.

It ends today. It ends now. It ends right here.

Thank you.

Jonathan Prince
Deputy Campaign Manager
John Edwards for President

Not sure how old this video is, but thought it was amusing…

One You Tube Commenter asks: “How can he not know about WTC7 considering who his supporters are?”

John Edwards is so full of shit, he knew what dude was asking about, C’mon!!
He is clearly steering clear of the Moonbats and the Democrat conspiracy morons.
Considering a recent poll where 30 plus percent of Democrats believe that Bush knew about the attacks on 9/11, Democrats are bigger loons than I thought.

UPDATE: Edwards Reimbuses Campaign for Haircuts 

I’ve been thinking about this off and on all day, how the fuck do you pay $400 for a haircut unless some really hot chick danced on your face.
I don’t get why Edwards is still being taken seriously. I have said before he is clearly the dumbest person running, and all of his gaffs during this presidential race certainly shows that he must have a campaign staff equally as ignorant as he is.
Why does he not fire these idiot fucks? Get a clue Johnny!

Quad-City barbers put down their shears and sputtered words like “preposterous” and “impossible” Wednesday when they heard of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards spending $400 for a haircut. In the Quad-Cities, $10 or $12 is about average.

“If I charged $400 for a haircut, they’d come after me with white coats,” said Leo Fier, who has been cutting hair for 49 years at his shop in DeWitt, Iowa.

Edwards’ campaign committee filed a financial report with the Federal Election Commission noting that the White House hopeful paid $400 for haircuts in California and New Hampshire, and $248 for salon services in Dubuque, Iowa.

“That’s impossible, $400,” said Don “Dutchman” Braafhart, who runs Dutchman’s Barbershop in Davenport.

Next time he’s in town, Edwards would get a real bargain at Davenport Barber College, where supervised student barbers charge only $7.50.

Even some Quad-Citians who allow their locks to grow long are shocked by a $400 haircut.

“My Santa Claus long hair is my trademark,” said Terry Lunardi, Davenport restaurateur. “I just had my hair cut Monday for $10. And I have a lot of hair to cut.”

Kurt Ullrich, a Scott County deputy auditor whose hair runs long, said, “Edwards and I are of a similar age and I took note of his hair when I visited briefly with him in Davenport. His hair is thick, full and beautifully coiffed, whereas mine is counter-culture long. Sixteen dollars is the most I’ve ever paid for a haircut.”

There are a few Quad-City shops that rise above the $10 average. A man’s haircut may range from $18 to $42 at some specialty salons. Operators at two of those shops said they would welcome Edwards, and not charge his campaign $400.

A barbaric price for cutting hair may not be unusual. Jay Ledford, who runs Cut Rite, Moline, with his dad, Jay Sr., insists that a number of years ago, President Clinton had his hair cut in Davenport. “I can’t remember the barber, but he only charged him $150,” Ledford said.

From the blog Moonbattery 

Elizabeth Edwards is appalled by the existence of Monty Johnson, a “rabid, rabid Republican” who lives just across the street. The Edwards’ palatial 28,000-square-foot estate, with indoor basketball court, indoor handball court, and indoor pool, sprawls upon 102 wooded acres. But Johnson’s “Go Rudy Giuliani 2008″ sign is only 100 feet from the entrance to the driveway.

Johnson is even said to have brandished a gun at trespassers, horrifying Elizabeth, who has never met the guy but has already resolved that she “wouldn’t be nice to him.”

She sniffs that his property is “slummy,” and accuses him of refusing it to keep it up just to spite her snooty family. However, as Johnson explains:

I have to budget. I have to live within my means. I don’t have millions of dollars to fix the place.

Johnson observes of Silky Pony, who made zillions fleecing doctors in dubious lawsuits:

I thought he was supposed to be for the poor people. But does he ever socialize with any poor people? He doesn’t speak to me.

Good news for the Edwards clan: Johnson, whose family purchased the property before the Great Depression, has put it up for sale, citing excessive property taxes.

This is why I think the left are a bunch of jackasses…

Most people don’t give a shit about what network a fucken debate is held on.
I’m tired of hearing about Fox as being the “mouthpiece of the Republican party.”
That is so tired and so stupid.

They are more concerned that the people from Fox might have people ask these jackass Democrats “legitimate” questions and won’t allow them to slink their way out of answering.

Liberals want to control the message; this is why they like dumb shit like mass protest rallies. Control the environment as well as the message and you control your people.

Edwards skipped out of the debate because he knows he would be made to look like a jackass (Meet the Press) and I’m sure he would be asked about his HUGE crib and his “carbon footprint.” My question to him “does Jesus like your crib?”  

(CBS/AP link) Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards won’t participate in a debate co-hosted by Fox News and the Nevada Democratic Party, his campaign said, as party officials tried to settle a dustup over their partnership with the cable network.

Edwards’ campaign said the involvement of Fox News, which is often accused by liberals of having a conservative bias, was part of the decision to pass on the Aug. 14 debate in Reno.

“There were a number of factors and Fox was one of those. We’re already planning to participate in a jam-packed schedule of debates across this country … we can’t attend every single debate and forum,” the campaign said in a statement.

The two Democratic presidential frontrunners, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, have not indicated whether they will attend the Nevada debate. Fox boss Rupert Murdoch threw a Senate fundraiser for Clinton, and is said to have a good relationship with the former first lady.

Online activists and bloggers quickly hailed Edwards’ decision as a victory in their campaign to urge Nevada Democrats to drop Fox News as a partner.

MoveOn.org Civic Action says it has collected more than 260,000 signatures on a petition that calls the cable network a “mouthpiece for the Republican Party, not a legitimate news channel.”  

From Rushlimbaugh.com

Edwards: “Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs. I think he would be appalled.”

Edwards wants money from Snoop….Uncontrollable laughter commences…    

Just think, there were idiot bastards that actually responded to this crap and sent a few dead presidents.
It’s amazing people fall for this shit.  

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Did you hear about Anne Coulter’s speech this afternoon attacking John? A friend just forwarded me the video and it’s one of the worst moments in American politics I’ve seen.

 I can’t bring myself to even repeat her comments. Her shameless display of bigotry is so outrageous you actually have to see for yourself   to believe it.

This is just a taste of the filth that the right-wing machine is gearing up to throw at us. And now that it’s begun, we have a choice: Do we sit back, or do we fight back?

I say we fight. Help us raise $100,000 in “Coulter Cash” this week to show every would-be Republican mouthpiece that their bigoted attacks will not intimidate this campaign. I just threw in 100 bucks. Will you join me? Just click here.  

Coulter’s attack was no accident. It happened on national television at one of the year’s biggest conservative conferences. Dick Cheney and most of the Republican candidates were in the audience. She was even introduced by Mitt Romney.

John was singled out for a personal attack because the Republican establishment knows he poses the greatest threat to their power. Since they have nothing real to use against him, Coulter’s resorting to the classic right-wing strategy of riling up hate to smear a progressive champion. And the Republican attack dogs will keep playing this despicable trick as long as they think it works.

But this time, you and I can change the game.

If we can raise $100,000 in “Coulter Cash” this week, we can show that bigotry will only backfire on those who use it. John is not the first progressive leader to face this kind of slime, but together, we can make sure he is one of the last.

Tonight, I’ve put in 100 bucks of “Coulter Cash” to get us started. Can you match me, or chip in whatever you can afford? Just click here:

Thanks,

David Bonior
Campaign Manager
John Edwards for President