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Obama-Edwards Feud Brewing?

As we near the Iowa caucuses, Senator Obama and former Senator Edwards have taken a break from bashing Senator Clinton to bash one another just a bit. (Making this scenario a little less likely.)

Obama had this to say about Edwards:

"The reason now that I raise this issue of the special interests is because everybody now in the campaign talks about how I am going to fight for you. Like Sen. Edwards, who is a good guy—he's been talking a lot about, 'I am going to fight the lobbyists and the special interests in Washington.' Well the question you have to ask is: Were you fighting for 'em when you were in the Senate. What did you do?"

I was at Edwards events all day today, so I found an opportunity to get the candidate's thoughts while at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. Here's what he said in response to Obama's comments.

"I spent 20 years fighting these powerful corporations in courtrooms and winning over and over again. In public life, I've carried on the same cause. One of the most obvious examples is I co-authored the patients' bill of rights, one of the biggest pieces of legislation taken on by the Democrats after we took over the United States Senate. I, Senator Kennedy, and Senator McCain were the cosponsors of it. We beat back the insurance companies and the HMOs and got the patients' bill of rights passed in the United States senate."

Edwards declined to go negative, as you can see. We'll see where this goes. I'll have more on Edwards in the next day or so.

My crude photographic representation of this situation after the jump.

obama_edwards_broken_heart.jpg

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Posted by Jonathan Stein on 12/17/07 at 9:12 PM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |



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Instead of fighting each other they need to consider joining forces. If Hillary wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, they should break with tradition and run as a team, with whoever has the most support taking the top of the ticket. If they combined their support they could defeat Hillary, which is our best chance of avoiding another four years of neocon disasters.

Posted by: AlexLawyer on 12/17/07 at 9:47 PM  Respond

I feel like I've seen a definite increase in Jonathan Stein's likelihood of employing sensationalist tactics in his writing in the last six months. He took one comment by Obama, paired it with a completely benign response from Edwards, and hung a sign over the non-story that said 'Obama-Edwards Feud Brewing' You can do better, Jonathan. Trust us, your readers, not to need this brand of hokum to grab our interest.

Posted by: Paul Miller on 12/18/07 at 4:26 AM  Respond

The title of this post was slightly more sensational than warranted. I've added a question mark at the end to tone it down.

Posted by: Jonathan Stein on 12/18/07 at 6:08 AM  Respond

This might get interesting - I like a good tangle - it can say a lot about the characters involved.

Posted by: capt on 12/18/07 at 6:18 AM  Respond

Jonathan, you're a gent. Now if I could only be so convincing elsewhere.

Posted by: Paul Miller on 12/18/07 at 6:24 AM  Respond

Jonathan Stein is more than a gent, he rocks.

I have been enjoying all of his work lately.

Posted by: capt on 12/18/07 at 6:27 AM  Respond

They really should join a team. Here would be the all-star team I would vote for:

President: Obama
Vice President: Clinton
Secretary of State: Richardson
Secretary of Defense: Biden
Attorney General: Edwards
Secretary of Labor: Kucinich
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Dodd

Posted by: John on 12/18/07 at 10:11 AM  Respond

Edwards means he fought against some lobbyists. The lawyer group that supports Edwards is a lobby group. The only one that does not take lobbyist's money is Obama ( since the presidential run).

Posted by: Nick on 12/18/07 at 10:40 AM  Respond

"The only one that does not take lobbyist's money is Obama ( since the presidential run)."

That's not what Open Secrets says -- http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.asp?Ind=H01

Posted by: amberglow on 12/18/07 at 6:07 PM  Respond

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