Edwards08
Lessig
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Obama
Image by Shepard Fairey.
The biggest problem I have with the Clinton legacy is its failure to articulate a strong defense of progressive values. I think we ended up with Bush precisely because of that failure. While Gore and Kerry toyed with progressivism they were ultimately unable to embrace it, allowing the Democratic Party to drift […]
Bonus Army
I’ve been thinking a lot about Obama. According to Ezra Klein:
his answer to arguments against consensus rhetoric [see my earlier post] is that his rhetoric is behind that success, it brings in more voters and thus intensifies popular pressure for his agenda
More specifically, his approach is that of
Occupying the moral high ground of unity and […]
Big Table
For those who haven’t been following, Obama’s been doing his best to alienate the progressive left. That’s resulted in him butting heads with two of my favorite people: John Edwards and Paul Krugman. And while it may result in more corporate fundraising for Obama, he’s come out looking much worse for the wear.
Obama has framed […]
Differentiation
If John Edwards is going to win the primary, he must first clearly differentiate himself from the other candidates. I’ve been worried that he has been too cautious, too timid about taking on Hillary and Obama. It seems that he was just waiting for one of them to pull ahead as the clear front-runner, bruised […]
Matching Funds
Although it draws attention to his laggard fundraising, Edwards decision to accept matching funds means he’ll have more money than either Obama or Hillary currently have (although they are both raising money faster than Edwards). 22 million to the approximately 19 million that the others have each raised. It also shows him to be less […]
One America
The text of John Edward’s Hanover speech reprinted in full (via Crooked Timber):
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery: “To Build One America, End the Game”
Hanover, New Hampshire
August 23, 2007
This election is unlike any we have faced before. The stakes are higher. And the challenges we face as a nation are greater than at any time in […]
Iowa
It may seem that Edwards is running a distant third to the two leading Democratic candidates, but don’t write him off yet. As you may remember from the last election, things can change very quickly during the primaries and Edwards is working hard on Iowa. In Iowa at least Edwards is running neck and neck […]
Ending Poverty
Been lagging on my Edwards blogging, here is some catchup:
First, Edwards announced a plan for the government to buy up drug patents and release them into the public domain (Kucinich introduced the Free Market Drug Act back in 2004). This is a brilliant idea and hopefully one which will gain more support after everyone’s seen […]
Health care
I haven’t been doing much John Edwards blogging since he announced his candidacy, but back in February I had bookmarked two articles about Edwards’ health care plan which I thought worth sharing.
First, Paul Krugman lauds the use of “‘Health Markets’: government-run bodies negotiating with insurance companies on the public’s behalf”:
Why is this such a good […]
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