Elizabeth Edwards gave an interview to Salon where she unloads on her husband’s main rival for the Democratic nomination:
On the issues that are important to women, she has not … well, healthcare, that’s enormously important to women, all the polls say, and what she says now is, we’re going to have a national conversation about healthcare. And then she describes some cost-saving things, which John also supports, but she acts like that’s going to make healthcare affordable to everyone. And she knows it won’t. She’s not really talking about poverty, when the face of poverty is a woman’s face, often a single mother. She gave that speech on abortion a few years ago [saying abortion should be "safe, legal and rare"].
Look, I’m sympathetic, because when I worked as a lawyer, I was the only woman in these rooms, too, and you want to reassure them you’re as good as a man. And sometimes you feel you have to behave as a man and not talk about women’s issues. I’m sympathetic — she wants to be commander in chief. But she’s just not as vocal a women’s advocate as I want to see. John is. And then she says, or maybe her supporters say, “Support me because I’m a woman,” and I want to say to her, “Well, then support me because I’m a woman.” The question is not so much how she campaigns — that’s theater. The question is, what does her campaign tell you about how she’ll govern? And I’m not convinced she’d be as good an advocate for women. She needs a rationale greater for her campaign than I’ve heard. When she announced her candidacy she said, “I’m in it to win it.” What is that? That’s not a rationale. Same with Senator Obama — I’ve yet to hear a rationale. John is extremely clear about what he can accomplish and why he’s the one to do it.
Nice smackdown.
July 17th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I can’t read more than a sentence from this women without getting sick. She and all the Democrats are Socialists that want big & bigger government to take care of us. The reason there is poverty is that we have raised generation after generation of welfare recipients that have been accustomed to sucking off of the teats of the working people of this country. If they would get off their ass, cut off their welfare, attended schools, worked as a waiter at night like I did at one time, they could get out of poverty into good paying jobs. Alas, they won’t, and this jackasses response is to raise the minimum wage, which causes a higher labor cost to do anything, which will result in higher consumer prices for all the things we buy.
This women has no concept of basic economic principles and you want these Socialists running our government? When some mindless twit who never voted in her life Photoshop’s herself next to that empty shirt Obama and it makes headline news, I know our country is in pathetic shape. Only Ron Paul will start at the top to really cut government and lower our taxes, which will increase the money in our pockets, so we can actually start saving money. Please vote for Ron Paul in 2008.