Posted on 05/12/2007 8:07:37 PM PDT by jern
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is calling on his supporters to turn this year's Memorial Day into a day of antiwar activism, saying that the best way to honor the troops is to demand an end to the Iraq war.
"Each of us has a responsibility as Americans, a duty to our troops and to each other, to do all we can to support the troops and end this war," the former senator from North Carolina said yesterday during a commencement address at New England College in Henniker, N.H.
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"This Memorial Day weekend, that means more than just getting in your car, driving to the beach, or a parade, or a picnic and saying the words, 'We support our troops,' " Edwards said
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LIAR.
This man truly is diseased, to even contemplate using a holiday comemorating those soldiers who have fallen purely for political gain. I think he needs another $400 haircut - close to the shoulder.
!@#$%!!!!!!!! F’n’ idiot!
saying that the best way to honor the troops is to demand an end to the Iraq war.
MORON. Memorial Day is a day to honor those who died serving their country, not just a generic honor our troops day. I doubt that surrendering honors those who have died fighting in Iraq.
The Breck Girl has gone from channeling dead children, to channeling gaseous escapes from the DNC’s posterior waste elimination orifice.
See! I am trying to clean up my language.
Disgusting scum. Just when you think they can’t sink any lower. He dishonors our heroic dead.
Unfreakingbelievable. He dishonors the sacrifice made by so many. I may have changed my mind on illegal aliens. 12 million can stay if I get to pick 12 million Dems we can deport.
PS If you want to be totally enraged, go to his website. He has the NERVE to link to many of the soldier support groups advocating to support the troops by sending packages and cards, while pulling the rug out from underneath them here at home.
He is the lowest form of life.
“You need to get off your ass and provide aid and comfort to those our troops are fighting.”
We support our troops he says. Only if it gets my pretty boy ass elected into the presidency like my God Bill Clinton.
Geez, correct me if I am wrong. I thought Memorial Day was to remember soldiers who have given their lives for their country. Veterans Day for all Vets. I am more than a little tired of this revisionist stuff.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
What does anybody expect from someone who uses his wifes cancer as a campaign advantage. Anyone who would vote for this guy is as pitiful as he is !!!
Further proof that Edwards gets his speeches written for him by moveon.org and code pink.
Edwards: “Aaaahhh, yessssss. Dah best weh tah suporrt dah trooops iz tah dafame dem in dah very hollyday dat prays dem four fightin’ and dyen’ for nothin’.” Dat’s howe wee shood cellebrait Memorial Day, yessir reesir.”
EAGLES UP!!!!!!!!!!!
Not surprising that a scumbag like Edwards would try to rewrite the purpose of Memorial Day, and for political gain no less.
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