John Edwards Is Ticking Off All The Right People

http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2008/1/12/155442/989

Let's start with Rupert Murdoch. My, how John Edwards has pissed that man off.

Sure, Murdoch hates John Edwards because Edwards led the way amongst presidential candidates in pulling out of the Faux-news debates, helping expose his propaganda network for what it is.

But he hates John Edwards even more because John Edwards has spoken out publicly against the monopolization of America's media outlets into the hands of a small number of plutocrats like Murdoch. Murdoch's media empire fired back, calling Edwards a hypocrite, leaking confidential information, all in an attempt to smear John Edwards to avoid talking about the real issues.

Then there's that corporate wet dream, Mitt Romney, who apparently has quite a violent streak.

"Every time I listen to someone like John Edwards get on TV and say there are two Americas I just want to throw something at the TV." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmZqArQtJAk

NY Times columnist David Brooks plays the role of the whispering polemicist in contrast to George Will, the bow-tied pugilist. Like Will, Brooks hates John Edwards. Edwards is "old-fashioned" and thanks to Obama's victory in Iowa, "Edwards's political career is probably over." (Don't you wish, David, don't you wish.)

No doubt about it.

John's giving some very powerful people a bloody nose and a black eye to boot.

Go Johnny!

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Another source quoted in the blog (think it's been posted already here on DU though):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7217369

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Ask corporate lobbyists which presidential contender is most feared by their clients and the answer is almost always the same -- Democrat John Edwards.

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"My sense is that Obama would govern as a reasonably pragmatic Democrat ... I think Hillary is approachable. She knows where a lot of her funding has come from, to be blunt," said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Group Co., a market and policy analysis group.

But Edwards, Valliere said, is seen as "an anti-business populist" and "a trade protectionist who is quite unabashed about raising taxes."

"I think his regulatory policies, as well as his tax policies, would be viewed as a threat to business," he said.