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 John
Edwards
 excerpts
from
the Iowa Daily Report
January
2003
“John
EDWARDS, the handsome, and comely, and attractive senator from
North Carolina (well, those are his chief assets) has
announced plans to seek the Democratic nomination for
president. A relative newcomer to politics, EDWARDS has caught
the eye of party elders due to his, well, his looks.” (Mona
Charen, jewishworldreview.com, 1/3)
“He’s
just running because he thinks he can get away with it in this
day and age.” – Ed Rogers, GOP consultant, on rookie Sen.
John EDWARDS’s Democratic presidential bid. (U. S. News
& World Report, 1/13)
“Democratic
pros are still looking for somebody along the model of Jimmy
Carter and Bill Clinton, a Southerner who can break the
Republican hammerlock on Dixie and who talks like a moderate
but acts like a liberal.” EDWARDS “fits the description,
but there is serious doubt in party ranks about nominating a
political novice who only four years ago was trying personal
injury cases.” Because of that, GRAHAM has been “attracting
more attention in party ranks than with the news media. Not
only would he be considered a lock in critically
important Florida, but would threaten President Bush in
other important states.” (Evans & Novak column, Human
Events, 1/13)
CNN’s
Jonathan Karl: “But, privately, senior Democratic aides are
aiming some fire at John KERRY and John EDWARDS and warning,
as one person said: This is a harbinger of things to come. We
are facing critical votes and these guys are off campaigning
for president.” (Jonathan Karl report, Inside Politics, CNN,
1/17)
Under the heading “Marching Orders,” it was reported that
the “three U. S. senator seeking the Democratic presidential
nomination – Joseph I. LIEBERMAN of Connecticut, John KERRY
of Massachusetts and John EDWARDS of North Carolina –
received a blunt warning…at NARAL Pro-Choice America’s
celebration of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. NARAL President
Kate Michelson warned the senators, “I fully expect
pro-choice senators to filibuster any (judicial) nominee who
does not affirm a women’s constitutional right to choose.”
(Inside politics, The Washington Times, 1/23)
Dem
reaction to GWB’s State of the Union address: EDWARDS said
the president “just doesn’t get it. Giving tax cuts to the
very wealthiest Americans should not take priority over the
real economic, health care, and security concerns facing
regular people.” KERRY said GWB has “too often practiced a
blustering unilateralism that is wrong, and even dangerous,
for our country.” GEPHARDT: said Bush “failed to ease the
nation’s anxiety over his economic plan and fell short of
addressing the nation’s increasing concern about the future.”
(AP, 1/29)
“Democratic
divisions weaken party in Iraq debate…KERRY says his war
vote won’t muzzle him: He blasts Bush’s ‘clumsy’ and
‘inadequate diplomacy.’ With 2004 rivals GEPHARDT,
LIEBERMAN and EDWARDS also war backers, students are ‘flocking’
to former Vermont Gov. DEAN’s side in Iowa and New
Hampshire, says an unaffiliated party strategist.”
(Washington Wire, The Wall Street Journal, 1/31)
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