Join OneCorp for one thing.  Second, what state are you in?

I'm of the opinion that he has to just keep fighting,a nd his supporters to push him along. The fact is the passion in his voice from this video, which I had seen last week, captures what a lot of Americans feel right now. Even after 2006, I still feel like the party is behind the curb of where the American people are. They, our leadership, still talk way too much amongst themselves and the Washington community than they do ordinary Americans. I don't know what can be done in the short term to help Edwards. But this is a huge problem. We are being given a trust, and failing that wil lleave us where the GOP is finding itself- in the dog house.

HA!

... that the Jerome user id was hijacked by other bloggers to pursue their hidden agendas, while Jerome has been adventure touring through South America.(+)

Though as I understand it, they have chipped in to fly Jerome to yKos, to maintain the pretense.

(+ NB. "We settled long ago" means that I have repeated the claim multiple times, and it has not yet been disproven to my satisfaction. After reading blogs for a while now, I believe this is a more "modern" sense of the phrase than "a group working seriously through the evidence reached a conclusion which stands up to the scrutiny of others", which is such an old-fashioned concept.)

No kidding, where has he been. I like him to show some spirit.

You disagree about the advice he gave againt Obama's strategist evoking Reagan in a Democratic primary?

Edwards was indeed a Senator for 6 years, but that at least gives him some national political experience.  Since then, he has been out of Washington for almost 3 years.  Clinton and Obama are currently in Washington.

My biggest problem with your question is its unrealism. So, you think when he says we need to fight against the health insurance companies- this means his having been a US Senator who was unable to do what only a President can do, set the agenda, is a sign of what exactly?

JOHN EDWARDS IS THE OUTSIDER IN THE RACE

Why I Like John Edwards

This about sums it up - anyone who is hated by the Beltway elites is probably doing something right:

"When I did my profile of the guy, Chuck Todd, who's got a pretty good sense for these sorts of things, marveled to me, `for some reason he's pissed off half of DC. I can't tell you why, I don't know. But half of the Democratic elite here in DC just hate John Edwards. It's amazing, some of it's irrational, and the Edwards people know it and see it as a badge of honor, somewhat. Maybe they feel like it's because he didn't play ball, maybe they feel like he forced himself onto the ticket, that he was too brazen in how he campaigned for that second slot. There's no one rational reason, but there's a not insignificant clique of elites in DC who are not Edwards fans, and who are borderline irrational about it.'"

You better believe this is true if it comes from Chuck Todd - one of the original Old School Beltway Elites.

Another example:

Even though Edwards may end up being the party's nominee, prominent Democrats are surprisingly candid about him. Mark Siegel, a 35-year party insider, told me: "He came to Washington as a 'New Democrat,' but he's not that kind of Democrat anymore. He's into class warfare."

Edwards has not worn well with party colleagues. Campaign consultant Bob Shrum was enthusiastic about Edwards after working on his 1998 Senate victory in North Carolina and unsuccessfully advised Gore to make him his 2000 running mate. But Shrum chose Kerry over Edwards as his 2004 presidential client. In his newly published memoir, "No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner," Shrum explains: "I was coming to believe he wasn't ready; he was a Clinton who hadn't read the books."

During the 2004 primaries, Democratic activist James Carville was enchanted when Edwards shifted his centrist posture to a populist depiction of "Two Americas." Carville told me -- and then repeated it on CNN -- that Edwards was the best stump speaker he ever had seen. When I asked him this week whether he still thought that was true, Carville replied: "Maybe he's not as good now."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2007/06/06/AR2007060602288. html?referrer=emailarticle

None of the three establishments can stand John Edwards.  Not the Republican establishment, not the DLC-dominated Democratic establishment, and definitely not the establishment media.

That definitely makes John Edwards an "OUTSIDER."

experience but the beltway isn't behind his candidacy this time (wasn't last time until he was on the ticket) and isn't supporting him.

The entire system is rigged. And it's rigged against you.

Of course the game is rigged against us ... and once he made his millions, no longer rigged against John Edwards in the same way ... and of course, given the way it is rigged, before one of us could hope to overhaul the system, we would have to first make our way into the other America, and then when we did, we would have to remember that the system needs an overhaul.

I can tell you, I am not going to gain the kind of independent wealth to allow me to leapfrog into the Senate, even if it turned out that I had the political skills to make the jump ... which I am confident that I do not.