John Edwards, is he really so anti-big corporations as the last debate would imply?

Question

Until this last debate, I didn't notice Edwards being so against corporate America. Is this a new direction for him or have I just missed his point all this time? Please give me your information reference source so I can read it first hand.

Answer 1

Edwards love Big Corporations. How do you think he has so much money? suing Big Business. Without them he would be a poor Ambulances chaser.

Answer 2

John Edwards is the closest We the People are going to get to a candidate that will put us first.

He is not anti-business. John Edwards is anti-fascist. He believes the Constitution is more than a piece of paper to wipe your posterior with, unlike the Corporate Fascists in the White House and the Republican and Democratic Parties in general these days.

He is not perfect by any means. But he is the most viable alternative in the running.

Answer 3

I hope so, but I don't really think that he is.

I think that all this is vote buying. I don't think there are anti-corporate politicians in power right now.

Answer 4

He is a trial lawyer. He worked for a hedge fund, he owns stocks. How anti-corporate he is. He is criticizing the same system that made him so wealthy.

Answer 5

Edwards "crookedly" didn't pay Medicare taxes on income. Sick!

That cost our elderly about $700,000!!!!!!!1

Answer 6

John is saying this because he knows it will sell well to left wing whackaloons. His problem is he overestimates the number of people who believe he is the fantasy Bobby Kennedy

Answer 7

WIKIPEDIA: After law school, he clerked for a Federal judge and in 1978 became an associate at the Nashville law firm of Dearborn & Ewing, doing primarily trial work, defending a Nashville bank and other corporate clients. The Edwards family returned to North Carolina in 1981, settling in the capital of Raleigh where he joined the firm of Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove.[11]

In 1984 Edwards was assigned to a perceived unwinnable medical malpractice lawsuit; the firm had only accepted it as a favor to an attorney and state senator who did not want to keep it. Nevertheless, Edwards won a $3.7 million verdict on behalf of his client, who suffered permanent brain and nerve damage after a doctor prescribed a drug overdose of anti-alcoholism drug Antabuse during alcohol aversion therapy.[12] In other cases, Edwards sued the American Red Cross three times, alleging transmission of AIDS through tainted blood products, resulting in a confidential settlement each time, and defended a North Carolina newspaper against a libel charge.[11]

In 1985, Edwards represented a five-year-old child born with cerebral palsy whose doctor did not choose to perform an immediate Caesarian delivery when a fetal monitor showed she was in distress. Edwards won a $6.5 million verdict for his client, but five weeks later, the presiding judge sustained the verdict but overturned the award on grounds that it was "excessive" and that it appeared "to have been given under the influence of passion and prejudice," adding that in his opinion "the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict." He offered the plaintiffs half of the jury's award, but the child's family appealed the case and settled for $4.25 million.[11] Winning this case established the North Carolina precedent of physician and hospital liability for failing to determine if the patient understood risks of a particular procedure.[12]

After this trial, Edwards gained national attention as a plaintiff's lawyer. He filed at least twenty similar lawsuits in the years following and achieved verdicts and settlements of more than $60 million for his clients. These successful lawsuits were followed by similar ones across the country. When asked about an increase in Caesarean deliveries nationwide, perhaps to avoid similar medical malpractice lawsuits, Edwards said, "The question is, would you rather have cases where that happens instead of having cases where you don't intervene and a child either becomes disabled for life or dies in utero?"[11]

In 1993, Edwards began his own firm in Raleigh (now known as Kirby & Holt) with a friend, David Kirby. He became known as the top plaintiffs' attorney in North Carolina.[11] The biggest case of his legal career was a 1997 product liability lawsuit against Sta-Rite, the manufacturer of a defective pool drain cover. The case involved a three-year-old girl[13] who was disemboweled by the suction power of the pool drain pump when she sat on an open pool drain whose protective cover other children at the pool had removed, after the swim club had failed to install the cover properly. Despite 12 prior suits with similar claims, Sta-Rite continued to make and sell drain covers lacking warnings. Sta-Rite protested that an additional warning would have made no difference because the pool owners already knew the importance of keeping the cover secured.

In his closing arguments, Edwards spoke to the jury for an hour and a half and referenced his son, Wade, who had been killed shortly before testimony began. Mark Dayton, editor of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, would later call it "the most impressive legal performance I have ever seen."[14] The jury awarded the family $25 million, the largest personal injury award in North Carolina history. The company settled for the $25 million while the jury was deliberating additional punitive damages, rather than risk losing an appeal. For their part in this case, Edwards and law partner David Kirby earned the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's national award for public service.[12] The family said that they hired Edwards over other attorneys because he alone had offered to accept a smaller percentage as fee unless the award was unexpectedly high, while all of the other lawyers they spoke with said they required the full one-third fee. The size of the jury award was unprecedented, and Edwards did receive the standard one-third plus expenses fee typical of contingency cases. The family was so impressed with his intelligence and commitment[11] that they volunteered for his Senate campaign the next year.

After Edwards won a large verdict against a trucking company whose worker had been involved in a fatal accident, the North Carolina legislature passed a law prohibiting such awards unless the employee's actions had been specifically sanctioned by the company.[11]

In December 2003, during his first presidential campaign, Edwards (with John Auchard) published Four Trials, a biographical book focusing on cases from his legal career. The success of the Sta-Rite case and his son's death (Edwards had hoped his son would eventually join him in private law practice) prompted Edwards to leave the legal profession and seek public office.


i THINK HIS WORK HISTORY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF..I SEE A LAWYER, BUT I ALSO SEE A MAN CONCERNED FOR SOCIAL FAIRNESS....I DON'T SEE AN EVIL MAN...CORPORATIONS NEED TO KEPT IN CHECK, GOOGLE THE ORIGINAL PATRIOTS ON THEIR VIEWS ON BUSINESS AND RELIGION...THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT ANY GROUP HAVING TOO MUCH POWER.

Answer 8

Con Edwards is joke

Answer 9

He has be saying it for a while now.They were asked better questions this time,and allowed to fully answer them.

Answer 10

he was also anti-poverty but hey $400 haircut