DMR: Edwards' "anti-corporate rhetoric would make it difficult to work with the business community"

[Stop Cornyn]

I KNOW the Des Moines Register didn't MEAN that as an endorsement of Edwards, but -- FUCKIN' A -- that tells me all I need to know about who's earned my support!

I sent Dennis Kucinich a check less than 24 hours ago, and now I'm breaking out the checkbook again for Edwards!

[liskddksil]

1. awesome

Who would of thunk it, that being harsh on the corporations that are corrupting our government is a bad thing

[jsamuel]

2. yeah that is what I am saying

they effectively endorsed him in a way by criticizing him

[mrreowwr_kittty]

3. Isn't it funny how these editorial boards misjudge voters?

It's unimaginable to them that the serfs don't necessarily share their view of business leaders as benevolent providers. I'll never forget this one article I read in a major business section talking about how Democratic politicians needed to be careful to avoid sounding too hostile to major corporations because, get this, many people are employed by them. Do these nimrods who write for these publications not realize how much Americans hate their employers? Apparently not. These media people are clueless as to how America REALLY works, and how many people are only working for these big companies because they have no other choice, if they want health care and a semblence of job security. Very often, there's nothing else available to them. These publications have NO idea of the level of seething resentment that exists out there.

The DMR is especially clueless, considering how many of their readers are probably blue collar workers or small farmers. Do they really think that describing a candidate as "anti-corporate" will make him an anathema to people who have been screwed over by corporations their entire lives?

[K Gardner]

4. Kudos.. well put n/t

[Yuugal]

5. exactly!

Every time he talks about taking a bite out of Richie Rich I love him more. Obama and Hillary just don't talk like an FDR kind of prez and thats what we need.

[lisainmilo]

6. Perhaps they should have read this!

A severe lesson in economics for the US and how corporate America has actually helped to drive the dollar into the ground!

"If abandonment of the dollar by oil exporters is not the cause of the dollar's woes, what is?

There are two reasons for the dollar's demise. One is the practice of American corporations offshoring their production for US consumers. When US corporations move to foreign countries their production of goods and services for American consumers, they convert US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) into imports. US production declines, US jobs and skill pools are destroyed, and the trade deficit increases. Foreign GDP, employment, and exports rise. "

"US corporations that offshore their production for US markets account for a larger share of the US trade deficit than does the OPEC energy deficit. Half or more of the US trade deficit with China consists of the offshored production of US firms. In 2006, the US trade deficit with China was $233 billion, half of which is $116.5 billion or $10 billion more than the US deficit with OPEC. "

"The other reason for the dollar's demise is the ignorance and nonchalance of "libertarian free market free trade economists" about offshoring and the trade deficit.

There is a great deal to be said in behalf of free markets and free trade. However, for many economists free trade has become an ideology, and they have ceased to think.

Such economists have become insouciant shills for the offshoring interests that fund their research and institutes. Their interests are tied together with those of the offshoring corporations.

Free trade economists have made three massive errors: (1) they confuse labor arbitrage across international borders with free trade when nothing in fact is being traded, (2) they have forgot the two necessary conditions in order for the classic theory of free trade, which rests on the principle of comparative advantage, to be valid, and (3) they are ignorant of the latest work in trade theory, which shows that free trade theory was never correct even when the conditions on which it is based were prevalent."

The entire article at Press TV: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=35109§ionid=3510304

[AzDar]

7. Kick ...

:patriot:

[OneGrassRoot]

8. Kick...... and, I was watching one of the cable news shows ...

and they were discussing the candidates.

I'm paraphrasing, but someone said, "Wall Street would much rather have Hillary than Huckabee. Wall Street likes Hillary as they know they can work with her."

I know the candidate needs to work with all spectrums, but anytime Wall Street LIKES someone, it makes me nervous in the last 20 years or so.

[chimpymustgo]

9. Well this should seal the deal. Go JRE! The DMR has exploded its reputation with these

endorsements. They can't be respected in any way.