The former senator from North Carolina told reporters America should “make it clear (to Iraqis) we are leaving, and the best way is to start leaving. We should take 40,000 combat troops out now.” (AP)
TRANSLATION:
I’m going to keep moving more anti-war, little by little. As long as I stay ahead of the other major candidates on the issue, I get credit for my position. And by saying something a little knew every once in a while, I keep my name in the news.
“I want to see my party get a little backbone and spine,” he said. “We used to be the party of big ideas. … We are the party that always gave voice to people that had no voice.” (AP)
TRANSLATION:
Now that I’m not in the Senate I can be a reformer/outsider, which is definitely the place to be for ‘08 if your first name isn’t Hillary.
“Former Sen. John Edwards now uses BitTorrent to distribute video and audio. The peer-to-peer technology essentially allows “grass roots online volunteers” to distribute information to others in a low cost way. The applications to politics are potentially huge. The news also proves Edwards is leading the way in adopting new campaign technologies.”
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/07/18/edwards_using_peertopeer_file_sharing.html
TRANSLATION:
I’m smart enough to know that all of this fancy technology isn’t going to mean shit at the end of the day…but I also know it keeps my buzz alive and positions me in the MSM as a tech/netroots savvy politician.
