2007-09-19 04:20:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
He's got some great ideas, believes the things traditional Americans believe, and he is NOT a member of the Shadow Government that has been strangling us for the last 20 years.
Ya know, that answers both questions at once. There's no way he will be ALLOWED to win. I suppose that make him a protest vote.
2007-09-19 04:34:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I knew who John Edwards was I could tell you so I looked him up.
After reading all about him, I decided that he was not the man for me for the following reasons.
He looks too smooth and untrustworthy
He is a lawyer who specialises in claims for things like negligence and accidents. He has gained millions of dollars for clients when they probably only needed an apology, small damages and some slight maintenance to correct the cause of the accident. People like him are responsible for high insurance premiums.
He lives in s $7m mansion and although he claims to be a champion for combatting global warming, his house is in the middle of a forest where hundreds of trees were felled to build it. Sounds like double standards to me.
When his son was killed in a car crash aged 16 (Why did he have a 4wd at 16), Edwards wore his son's college lapel badge during his campaign to gain sympathy votes.
He announced that his wife had uncureable (but treatable), breast cancer before his next campaign which co-incided with his attempt for the sympathy vote again. I wonder what other catastrophes will happen to his family during the campaign.
He is a friend of John Kerry, a known loser.
The guy amassed $7m in donations from the legal profession alone towards his campaign funds. What is he secretly offering them in exchange for this? More legislation to sue for minor damages? I thought lawyers were supposed to be neutral, otherwise how can they serve their clients without prejudice?
Don't know if that's enough but, as an outsider from England, and thus neutral, that's my opinion. You've got to form your own. Hope you get the President you want.
2007-09-19 11:45:13 · answer #2 · answered by quatt47 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I must go straight to the why not category. John Edwards is in the position he is in because he is one of those slick lawyers who won huge law suits and reaped the lion share of the judgements. He refused similar cases because the clients were too poor for his services. You really think a guy like that would represent "the people" fairly?
2007-09-19 17:02:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
These are the reasons why I wouldn't vote for him:
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who recently proposed an educational policy that urged "every financial barrier" be removed for American kids who want to go to college, has been going to college himself -- as a high paid speaker, his financial records show.
The candidate charged a whopping $55,000 to speak at to a crowd of 1,787 the taxpayer-funded University of California at Davis on Jan. 9, 2006 last year, Joe Martin, the public relations officer for the campus' Mondavi Center confirmed. The candidate -- who was then the head of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina -- chose to speak on "Poverty, the great moral issue facing America," as his $55,000 topic at UC Davis.
Edwards spoke to at least two other California universities and colleges, both private.
He appeared at Stanford University, where he spoke on April 26, 2006; the Palo Alto institution paid him $40,000 to deliver his talks, according to financial records. And Edwards also headlined at the former University of Judaism -- today the American Jewish University -- in Los Angeles on Jan. 30, 2006, where he debated former Speaker Newt Gingrich before about 5,000 people. According to financial documents, the candidate received a fee of $40,000 at that appearance.
In 2006, records show Edwards made more than $285,000 speaking to nine colleges and universities, charging between $16,000 and Davis' $55,000 for his talks. They ranged from the $12,000 he got on Jan. 10, 2006 from Gonzaga University Law School in Spokane, Wash., to the $40,000 he banked from the University of Texas Pan American Foundation on May 22, 2006. Other schools that have paid Edwards to speak before he was a declared presidential candidate: Hunter College in New York ($35,000), Mount Union College in Ohio ($16,00) and Vanderbilt University in Nashville ($40,000). With the rising cost of tuition - how does his paid speaking engagements help the education bottom line?
Edward's background as a trial-lawyer bothers me too, and he is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations - which is an agency that supports the North American Union which will only abolish our Constitution and take away further liberties from us. My vote will be going to Dr. Ron Paul.
2007-09-19 12:09:02 · answer #4 · answered by kymeth 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
why to vote for him: he's not Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama
why not to vote for him: haven't got an answer on this one
2007-09-19 11:29:25 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why vote for him----it would be a wasted vote. He won't even win a primary.
2007-09-19 11:29:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
why...he has the support of the unions
why not...he says he'll raise taxes
2007-09-19 11:32:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋