Edwards takes aim at drug companies, insurance companies in Georgia, introduced by fmr. Gov. Barnes

Overall the article is good but it over-hypes the HRC angle.

== Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 06:43 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Fresh from his Youtube debate in South Carolina, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards drew a rush-hour crowd of about 350 to the Georgia Freight Depot in downtown Atlanta on Tuesday.

At $15 a head — it was dubbed a “small change for big change” event — this may have been a Georgia political consumer’s best chance to get up close and personal with the candidate.

As he did in the Monday debate on CNN, Edwards pressed his populist message — and his advocacy of universal health care — by focusing on James Lowe, a 51-year-old disabled coal miner from southwest West Virginia, who was born with a cleft palate. Lowe was uninsured, and lived with the condition until last year.

“This describes what’s wrong with America,” Edwards said. “For 50 years of his life, in the United States of America, the richest nation on the planet with a medical problem that was entirely fixable, James Lowe was not able to talk,” Edwards said. “When are we finally going to stand up to these insurance companies and drug companies?”==

==“We need big bold change in this country. Not small change. We will not have big change through compromise or triangulation.” (Most of you remember that triangulation was a favorite tactic of Bill Clinton.)==

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2007/07/24/edwards_takes_aim_at_drug_comp.html

politican that actually gives a crap about the people. imo

I was standing next to Roy Barnes' totally awesome wife, Marie, who was playing with Carter (my 13 month old). She took us over and introduced us to Elizabeth - another totally awesome woman!

:bounce:

and they took my contact info so that they could email me the pics of Carter with EE and Marie Barnes.

So cool.

it was a great event. To me, John Edwards is the only one saying the things that matter most to ordinary people. I was glad to be there to support them.