Edwards On O’Reilly: 'He Has No Idea What He’s Talking About'
Edwards On O’Reilly: 'He Has No Idea What He’s Talking About'
ABC News' Raelyn Johnson reports: In a campaign stop in Las Vegas, Nev., Democratic hopeful John Edwards defended himself against Bill O’Reilly’s slamming a regular part of his stump speech that thousands of homeless vets are sleeping under bridges.
“In a country with as much wealth as America has, for us to have as many as 200,000 veterans who go to bed under bridges, go to sleep under bridges, or on grates, and who are homeless... This is immoral, and it’s wrong. And we, America, we have a responsibility to do something about it,” Edwards repeated tonight, speaking at US Veterans, a non profit organization that reintegrates homeless vets back into society.
Last night, on Fox's "The O’Reilly Factor," guest Ed Schultz, a syndicated radio talk show host, suggested that Edwards needs to expand on his two Americas theme. O’Reilly jumped in:
O'REILLY: Well, we're still looking for all the veterans sleeping under the bridges, Ed. So, if you find anybody, let us know. Because that's all the guy said for the last...
SCHULTZ: Well, they're out there, Bill, don't kid yourself.
O'REILLY: They may be out there, but there are not many of them out there, OK. So, if you know where there is a veteran sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately, and we will make sure that man does not do it.
Tonight, speaking in front of a roomful of homeless vets, Edwards responded, “I heard that, last night, Bill O'Reilly, who's a talk show host, who's heard that I have said this about hundreds of thousands of veterans who don't have a place to live, and were homeless. And he challenged me about whether that's true or not, whether, in fact, we have that many veterans who don't have a place to live, and some of them are sleeping under bridges. Well, he ought to start by coming to Las Vegas, if he wants to know what's going on.
CLINTON THINKS WE HAVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BECAUSE LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED IT.
SO WHY WAS SHE CAMPAIGNING FOR BARRY GOLDWATER(AGAINST JOHNSON) WHO VOTED NO ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT???
BY THE WAY CHECK OUT BILL CLINTON RACIST POSTCARD HE SENT TO HIS GRANDMA IN 1966 DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
CIVIL RIGHTS ARE AS IMPORTANT FOR HISPANICS AS IT IS FOR BLACKS AND FOR ANY OTHER MINORITY.
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I am not sure what is the significance of all of this. The Clntons have a good track record in looking after the best interest of the civil rights movement, America and all humanity. I have viewed any progress for the black civil rights movement as progress for all minorities and the clintons have done well to advance this cause. This country has seen some of its best times under the Clintons-much prosperity and hope-but the Republicans had to undermine and destroy Bill to achieve their goals. The world was full of hope and there was a lot of goodwill towards America.
I have heard a lot of unfounded criticisms about NAFTA, implemented by Bill Clinton. At that time there was globalization and the formation of megablocks AND FREE TRADE ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS the European Union, ACP, CARICOM, WTO and others. NAFTA was our response (and there has been others by the bush administration and more in the making eg with Columbia). Obama in his inexperience and misguided stance has criticized NAFTA although the us has exported hundreds of billions worth in goods under the free/fair trade afforded by NAFA. Over a hundred thousand Americans live and work in Mexico and many jobs were created in Mexico for Mexicans, who would have entered the US illegally-the illegal immigration problem would have been worse although we need cheap labor.Many more loss of US jobs resulted from big corporations moving overseas and receiving incentives for doing so and from our China relations. Mexicans, Americans and Canadians have benefited from NAFTA. Obama's criticism of NAFTA is yet another testimony of his inexperience and ignorance in the foreign and domestic policies of the US. His stance on the Iraq war is as ill-informed and misguided as Bush's administration prosecution of the war and collectively (with Obama's efforts in undermining the war effort-rallies etc)has contributed tremendously to our failure in IRAQ. Nations/factions go to war for different reasons especially when there was and is the perception of a growing threat (eg Islamic fundamentalism within and outside the US)which and the scarcity of resources eg oil upon which we depend heavily and has to compete with Russia, China, and India. I can go on and on but please give the clintons credit. Obama is naive-instead of being able to unite, the Republicans will tear him apart and shred him and his empty promises couched in lofty plagiarized rhetoric into pieces. Jesse Jackson or Alan Keyes have more character than Obama and are more deserving of elevated status. I am appealing to the Latinos and young voters to look beyond the Obama hype for real answers to their questions. If you are rich without a heart vote for the Republicans-otherwise please support Bill & Hilary Clinton to get us out of the quagmire...Thanks (One last word: Global warming is no only about greenhouse gases and carbon emissions but much more about energy transformations and thermodynamics)
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