And John Kerry has answered the call...
Posted on 09/11/2006 2:24:19 PM PDT by ncountylee
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Possible presidential candidate and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards told some 3,400 union delegates and others Monday that the Democratic Party needs to show "a little backbone" by taking up the cause of universal health care again.
"One of the ways we can show some backbone and courage is we can speak out and we can say we're not for access to health care ... and all those weasel words that politicians like to use," he said.
"We're for universal health care for every single man, woman and child in America and we are going to fight for it every single day when we're running this country, when we're running the Congress, when we're running the White House. "
Edwards, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2004, appeared with other party stalwarts such as former President Jimmy Carter at a convention of the Laborers' International Union of North America to make the case to attendees to elect Democrats in November. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, also considered a possible presidential contender, was to address the convention later in the day.
Nevada has taken on new importance on the Democratic presidential primary calendar after the party moved last month to sandwich Nevada's caucus between first-in-the-nation Iowa and New Hampshire in January.
The shake-up was backed by Democratic leaders who want to add more Hispanic and black voters to the voter pool picking the party nominee, and give Democrats an early foothold in the West, a region increasingly seen as a key to winning the general election.
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While reading this, my mind jumped ahead and thought he was going to talk about national security instead of health care. What a joke...the Dems just don't get it. Health care certainly isn't in the top 5 of my concerns as an American.
"I declare war on Individualism"- John Edwards.
Excuse me, Mr Edwards, I can take care of myself. Butt out! Thank you, President George W. Bush, for Health Savings Accounts.- me
Teddy couldn't find a spine on a porcupine.
This, from the Breck Girl.
ya mean backbone like when Kennedy ran after he killed Mary Jo? That kind of backbone? or the backbone of Murtha? How about the backbone of Jaque Kerry? Lets leave backbone to the real men not Nancy boys like these losers!
Why are they ONLY for universal healthcare? Food and shelter are more critical for life than healthcare? Wouldn't universal food and shelter be more valuable to society?
And John Kerry has answered the call...
You're right John. As the rest of thr country worries about getting blown to bits you Dumocrats should resurrect HillaryCare. Get the ID card out. Don't forget the panels of unaccountable bureaucrats deciding the racial and ethnic quotas for doctors. You and Hillary can be the two lead pigs from Animal Farm, deciding how much doctors can make in a year, etc. Roll it up into a Seven-Year Plan for us comrades.
Trial lawyer talk for stick um up.
Oh, come on, Johnny... you're too cute with that beauty-spot mole and all that hair to have a backbone. Who can take you seriously, Breck Girl?
Might as well try that, since showing your pretty hair was a losing strategy...
"We're for universal health care for every single man, woman and child in America and we are going to fight for it every single day..."
Oh good. You keep on saying that. Don't forget to add that you will not stop until every American is paying 70% of the income in taxes to pay for it.
My current tagline says it all.
Jimmy Carter, speaking in place of his incapacitated son, Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Jack Carter, said the Bush administration had strayed from American values and should be held to account for the war in Iraq on false premises.
His son continued to suffer from severe colitis, an inflammation of the colon, since being hospitalized on Thursday, but was steadily recovering, said spokesman Jay Jones.
"I think it's very important that all of us combine our efforts in the next few months to make sure that the administration in Washington is restrained," the elder Carter said.
If anybody needs restrained around here, it's Jimmuh Carter...
If they had backbone they would proudly call themselves socialists.
Sorry, they took X-Rays and there isn't one to show.
They'd be better off showing some brains.
First they need to purchase one.
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Purchase? SInce when do they pay for anything themselves?
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