Is anyone talking about poverty at the convention?

[question everything]

I do not watch the convention gavel to gavel and yesterday almost missed Schweitzer were it not for the crowd getting excited that even CNN had to stop the punditry and focus on him.

Had Edwards given a time to speak - all all other candidates did - he, no doubt, would have talked about poverty. So I wonder whether any other speaker picked up this topic.

[femmedem]

1. In the immortal word of Biden

"Yes."

[williesgirl]

2. Not that I've heard yet. Middle-class, yes, but not poverty. Too bad Edwards couldn't keep it

zipped or we'd have had it part of our platform. Now they don't have to.

[Oregone]

3. Poverty breeds Depravity

Even talking about it can make a man breed.

[spanone]

4. how about 'torture'

[BlooInBloo]

5. There's poverty at the convention?

:P

[question everything]

6. No. The poor cannot afford to take time off work - if they have one

to travel and lodge and wine and dine there.

[billyoc]

7. We gave the homeless people haircuts, what the hell ELSE you do want?!

:hide:

[question everything]

14. Shave? (nt)

[High Plains]

8. No. Apparently, there are no poor people in America.

Just the rich and the middle class.

[femmedem]

9. The people who talked about poverty the best

were poor themselves, people telling their real stories about factories closing and being out of work and what it's done to them and their families. I wouldn't say that the politicians did as good a job as Edwards would have.

Dem pols did claim credit for raising the minimum wage, talk about the need for health care for all and for early childhood education for all--so you could say they talked about poverty indirectly. They also talked about the American dream of hard work reaping rewards being endangered.

[earth mom]

10. Probably not because Edwards isn't there and the convention is full of a bunch of rich assholes

who don't give a damn about the peons aka the majority of us. :grr:

[RandomKoolzip]

11. The only person with any media profile who gave a fuck about the poor unfortunately

couldn't control his dick. So, no, we are not being represented at the convention.

[dkofos]

12. Not since they crucified Edwards

[Breeze54]

13. I heard a pundit say "Obama will help the working poor" and

he had to interrupt the interrupter to get that out! That's the only time I've heard
the term used and I haven't heard the word 'poor' used at all by any of the speakers....


Poor people apparently don't vote. :sarcasm:

[question everything]

15. This is true. Ask Rove

Would have been decent to at least mention the ones who suffer the most from the Bush policies and whose voices are not heard.

We have several more speeches. Perhaps Biden or Obama will.