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John Edwards said Saturday his chief Democratic rivals for the White House offer “a complete fantasy” when explaining the role of special interests. His party, he said, could lose its way and alienate supporters unless it stands by those most in need.
“I think if my party, the Democratic Party, if we’re not willing to fight for, stand up and show some backbone on behalf of the poor, the homeless, the disabled, the disenfranchised, we have no soul,” the former North Carolina senator said. “What are we going to stand for?”
Edwards cited fellow candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for suggesting that expanded health care and other gains can be achieved by bargaining with what called entrenched interests.
“The easiest thing to do is say we can be nice about this, we can turn our heads and we can sit at a table with stakeholders and negotiate with them and they will voluntarily give their power away,” said Edwards, the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2004. “It is a complete fantasy.”
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