Americans spend $4 for a cup of coffee, while newborns in Africa get AIDS because their mothers can't afford $4 worth of medicine. What if we committed to funding primary education for every child in the world? The world must see the United States as a force for good. On my first day in office, you have my word that Guantanamo will be closed. Global warming. 4% of population/25% of greenhouse gasses. How can we ask India and China to help. Carbon cap. Ratchet down the cap. Auction the permits. $30-40B/yr. for clean energy r&d. Tighter fuel-economy standards. [Why do you need that, with what amounts to a carbon tax?] "It's time for a President of the United States to ask Americans to be patriotic about something besides war." 37 million Americans in poverty. If the Democrats don't speak up about that, why do we exist? We're better than this. Living wage; organized labor built the middle class; card check. If you can join the Republican Party by signing a card, any worker in America ought to be able to join a union by signing a card. Ban permanent replacement workers.
What if we committed to funding primary education for every child in the world?
The world must see the United States as a force for good.
On my first day in office, you have my word that Guantanamo will be closed.
Global warming. 4% of population/25% of greenhouse gasses. How can we ask India and China to help.
Carbon cap. Ratchet down the cap. Auction the permits. $30-40B/yr. for clean energy r&d.
Tighter fuel-economy standards. [Why do you need that, with what amounts to a carbon tax?]
"It's time for a President of the United States to ask Americans to be patriotic about something besides war."
37 million Americans in poverty. If the Democrats don't speak up about that, why do we exist? We're better than this.
Living wage; organized labor built the middle class; card check. If you can join the Republican Party by signing a card, any worker in America ought to be able to join a union by signing a card. Ban permanent replacement workers.
Full notes at: Edwards speech (note form)
NB On Obama you completely misunderstood what he was saying with the "this is not America" refrain - he is calling those policies anti-American and thus by extension, saying that the Republicans are traitors. He reinforces that by drawing an analogy of the Bush Administration's torture and imprisonment without trial of prisoners to the Jim Crow thugs who beat down civil rights marchers - i.e. invoking one of the most powerful symbols of America the evil vs. America as it should be. It is thus a very harsh condemnation of the Bush administration. As a French person you should be quite used to politicians using that rhetorical device.
I still think that Obama and Clinton have a primary non-aggression pact and are deliberately moderating their statements to "traingulate" on each other. Obama's speech was, imo, his stab rightward to meet Hilary coming back the other way.
Her statements during the Primary Debate about Iraq were extremely misleading about her track record. It was an open goal asking for Obama to call her on it, but he didn't.
The entire primary is a competition between the two of them about who's pres and who's VP. keep to the Fen Causeway
