Russ McBee

John Edwards has announced that he is withdrawing from the presidential race and is scheduled to make a formal announcement at 1:00 PM today. This is disappointing, if not unexpected, although I fully expected him to remain in the race at least through Super Tuesday. His withdrawal only five days before that date suggests to me that he will throw ...

Here's what John Edwards had to say about Bush's final State of the Union address: Following the president's final State of the Union address last night, John Edwards told a crowd in Tulsa this morning that he doesn't know ''how he [Bush] can say these things with a straight face anymore.'' ''Here's what I heard,'' he said. ''What I heard ...

The mighty Joe Powell is soliciting answers to a set of questions for his readers. Here are the questions (in bold) with my answers underneath each one: 1) Do you have a preference for any one candidate in the current race for President of the U.S.? Please give a reason for your choice (or lack of one). I'm voting for John Edwards for several ...

Hillary Clinton won the 2008 New Hampshire primary by two percentage points over Barack Obama (39 to 36, as of 10:40 PM). However, yesterday, the day before the primary, this CNN story discussed Obama's alleged surge in the polls: On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Sen. Barack Obama has a nine-point lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton in ...

The John Edwards campaign sent a blast email in the wee hours of the morning which contains this succinct statement of the difference between Edwards and Obama: In tonight's debate, there were two ''change candidates'' on the stage. But we have very different approaches. I don't believe you can sit around a table with the drug companies, the ...

After John Edwards's strong second-place finish in last night's Iowa caucus, he had this to say: [C]orporate greed has got a stranglehold on America. And unless and until we have a president in the proud tradition of Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, who has a little backbone, who has some strength, who has some fight, who's ...

I've posted previously about the health care proposals put forth by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. This time, I'm going to look at what John Edwards is saying. In brief, his plan consists of the following factors: Require businesses and other employers to either cover their employees or help finance their health insurance. Make insurance ...