While doing some reading I found this on the Democratic Underground site
From an e-mail from Dennis Kucinich, dated January 6 2008:
3. In answer to your questions about why I didn't support former Senator John Edwards on the second ballot in Iowa: I have serious concerns about his connections to a Wall Street hedge fund, Fortress Investment Group. While attacking others for accepting campaign money from Washington lobbyists, he is up to his ears in money from Wall Street special interests.
He made half a million dollars in a single year for attending a few meetings for Fortress and has invested a substantial part of his own personal wealth in the hedge fund whose portfolios are responsible for sub-prime predatory lending practices, Medicare privatization, and an entire range of corporate sharp dealings that are driving the middle class into poverty.
Yeah, the MSM are 'excluding' him because he would take on the corporations...
Being curious, I checked around some more and found this
Monday we told you about John Edwards' work for a hedge fund — which he says was a way to learn how financial markets relate to poverty. Now the Washington Post is reporting that the company — Fortress Investment Group — is also heavily involved in the subprime lending business — offering the kind of high-risk mortgages to the poor that Edwards has loudly criticized as predatory.
Edwards says he was unaware of the connection — and says he can't remember what the firm told him about that part of their business when he signed on.
Meanwhile a researcher from Emory University has come up with a price tag on all the campaign promises Edwards is making — $125 billion/year.
The Associated Press reports that Edwards' plans on health care, energy and poverty reduction would add up to more than $1 trillion if he were president for two terms.
So two questions arose, is Edwards really against corporate greed as much as he says? And second, how is planning on paying for his programs?
Debate.....
Originally posted by SMSBear716please post links
While doing some reading I found this on the Democratic Underground site
From an e-mail from Dennis Kucinich, dated January 6 2008:
3. In answer to your questions about why I didn't support former Senator John Edwards on the second ballot in Iowa: I have serious concerns about his connections to a Wall Street hedge fund, Fortress Investment Group. ...[text shortened]... as much as he says? And second, how is planning on paying for his programs?
Debate.....
Originally posted by SMSBear716interesting, however there is nothing substantiating the claims made, it is merely conjecture. again, post links to a "credible" source.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4071581
see how that can work both for and against you?
Originally posted by SMSBear716$125 Billion? wow that's cheap! The Iraq qar is going to cost us over $1 Trillion, not to mention the long term cost of financing the war, equipment upgrades, and vetran benefits.
While doing some reading I found this on the Democratic Underground site
From an e-mail from Dennis Kucinich, dated January 6 2008:
3. In answer to your questions about why I didn't support former Senator John Edwards on the second ballot in Iowa: I have serious concerns about his connections to a Wall Street hedge fund, Fortress Investment Group. ...[text shortened]... as much as he says? And second, how is planning on paying for his programs?
Debate.....
At least for the $125 Billion, the American people be sharing in the prosperity instead of the corprate welfare system we have today.
Originally posted by duecerI see..if it was a flaming anti-conservative link it be perfectly credible for you .... but then, I'm not surprised.
interesting, however there is nothing substantiating the claims made, it is merely conjecture. again, post links to a "credible" source.
see how that can work both for and against you?
see how that works?
Originally posted by SMSBear716I could really care less, but since you asked . . .
While doing some reading I found this on the Democratic Underground site
From an e-mail from Dennis Kucinich, dated January 6 2008:
3. In answer to your questions about why I didn't support former Senator John Edwards on the second ballot in Iowa: I have serious concerns about his connections to a Wall Street hedge fund, Fortress Investment Group. ...[text shortened]... as much as he says? And second, how is planning on paying for his programs?
Debate.....
No, I don't think Edwards is really that anti-corporate. He's playing politics. Much like Lou Dobbs, he's trying to skyrocket his career with asinine populist cripe. Of course, they're fool of caca, but moral outrage goes over well with a lot of stooges in this country. Conservative talking heads from Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Nancy Grace and Glenn Beck have been showing us how works it for some time now. It's not like Democrats are too enlightened to get in on the action as well. Instead of b#tching about abortion, sex education, and the War on Christmas, populist Democrats rail against outsourcing, competitive labor markets, and "those big greedy oil companies."