Edwards' new pitch: Clinton tied to corrupt system

[babylonsister]

Edwards' new pitch: Clinton tied to corrupt system

By Nedra Pickler | Associated Press writer
8:09 AM CDT, October 29, 2007

WASHINGTON - Looking to shake up Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the Democratic presidential race, John Edwards is making an ardent push for voters to turn away from Washington insiders and a corrupt political system dominated by lobbyists and special interests.

Edwards railed against the "bankrupt ways of Washington" -- but his argument was less against President Bush's leadership than it was to cast Clinton as the insider that voters should reject.

"This corruption did not begin yesterday, and it did not even begin with George Bush," Edwards said in speech excerpts provided by his campaign. "It has been building for decades, until it now threatens literally the life of our democracy.

"Let us blaze a new path together," said Edwards, himself a former U.S. senator.

The Edwards campaign billed his scheduled appearance Monday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., as a "major thematic speech" that his aides said would be a major part of his closing arguments in the last two months before voting begins.

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[Cameron27]

1. Great.

let's give the wingnuts a hand in beating the Clinton presidency to death in the general.

[patrice]

2. "new path" = paper ballots counted in public? nt

[Deep13]

3. It reminds me of an old, Vulcan proverb.

Only Nixon could go to China.