http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=2437 Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:46:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=2437&cpage=1#comment-154285 The Festivus Airing of Grievances - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:14:28 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=2437#comment-154285 [...] John Edwards: I doubt that there has been a candidate in recent history who has shown such a chance of winning a major party nomination who is so poorly qualified. Bob Shrum got it right in calling you a “lightweight,” a “hyper-ambitious phoney” and “a Clinton who hadn’t read the books.” Your only real skill is an amazing ability, seen in your legal, business, and now political careers, to convince some that you have altruistic motives when your real goal is to increase your own wealth and power. There’s little difference between the junk science you used to win legal cases and the junk economics you now are using to try to win the Iowa caucus. Your commitment to liberal principles is even more suspect than Hillary Clinton’s between your relatively weak commitment to reversing the expanded power of the presidency to your health care plan which would make everything, including preventative care, mandatory. [...] [...] John Edwards: I doubt that there has been a candidate in recent history who has shown such a chance of winning a major party nomination who is so poorly qualified. Bob Shrum got it right in calling you a “lightweight,” a “hyper-ambitious phoney” and “a Clinton who hadn’t read the books.” Your only real skill is an amazing ability, seen in your legal, business, and now political careers, to convince some that you have altruistic motives when your real goal is to increase your own wealth and power. There’s little difference between the junk science you used to win legal cases and the junk economics you now are using to try to win the Iowa caucus. Your commitment to liberal principles is even more suspect than Hillary Clinton’s between your relatively weak commitment to reversing the expanded power of the presidency to your health care plan which would make everything, including preventative care, mandatory. [...]

]]> http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=2437&cpage=1#comment-144994 On Mandates: Choice is Not A Right-Wing Talking Point - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:20:36 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=2437#comment-144994 [...] John Edwards has explained what he means by not offering people the choice of declining participating in his health care plan: Under the Edwards plan, when Americans file their income taxes, they would be required to submit a letter from an insurance provider confirming coverage for themselves and their dependents. [...] [...] John Edwards has explained what he means by not offering people the choice of declining participating in his health care plan: Under the Edwards plan, when Americans file their income taxes, they would be required to submit a letter from an insurance provider confirming coverage for themselves and their dependents. [...]

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