THE MEDIA WONT REPORT IT SO I WILL

Davis became Rezko's personal financial partner in slum-redevelopment deals, which were then backed by State Senator Obama.

In one of those deals, after both Obama and Davis had left the law firm, Obama wrote letters to state and city housing officials supporting the proposed Cottage View Terrace apartments, a project run by Tony Rezko and Allison S. Davis. The deal cost taxpayers $14 million and the partners got $855,000 in fees. Completed in 2002, the project is now managed by Davis's son Cullen Davis.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported in 2007 that Cottage View Terrace was originally supposed to be managed by Davis's longtime business partner, William Moorehead, until Davis's son was substituted. Moorehead was sent to prison in 2007 for stealing more than $1 million from the public housing projects he managed, including two he co-owned with Allison S. Davis.

- The University of Chicago and the CBOT -

He would make a fantastic president.

These are some of the things we want!

The questions and answers in the debates have been mostly worthless in terms of telling us what the candidates will actually DO should they get elected. Does Clinton like pearls or diamonds? Please, get real. Not allowing Obama
his question? Unprofessional. Comments about the looks of Clinton's daughter, or stating that McCain is a lost cause because he is carrying a piece of luggage? These have no place in news commentary. Edwards is "angry"? Maybe he has a right to be. I sure am.

Priorities of the issues – all the issues – is vital to choosing a candidate. Don't use smokescreens to divert from the truly crucial issues. While I admit it's a legitimate issue of importance in some states, the 15 minutes spent talking about licenses for illegal immigrants (that was a Republican debate) when most people across the nation are much more worried about war, paying bills, health care, etc., just angered me.

I want to know a candidates position and a plan for action on issues that matter every single day. Let the candidates tell us in their own words, in detail. I'm sick of hearing the word "change", without any substance. I want to know HOW a candidate proposes to do that. Also, the fact is that no matter who gets elected, that person must still work with congress to get any proposal through to law. Perhaps the media might actually remind the candidates and the voters of that occasionally, lest we all get caught up in the mentality of expecting miracles. Compromise is a reality. Let each candidate tell me about their plans/positions on issues that matter, including education, social security, outsourcing, health care, abortion, guns, Iraq, Iran, the Patriot Act, etc., and how they expect to work with and unite both congress and the nation to put their ideas into action.

I'm sick of the bickering, which the media only fuels. I want a good president, and I want to make sure that the best person wins, not the best personality. Personally, I'm sad to see Biden and Richardson out of the running, they made the debates more interesting. I think when a candidate gets in the race, they should plan for at least a few states - especially in light of the obvious undecisiveness out there among voters.

Al Gore, where are you when we need you?

Is this Americas man who is fighting for Middle class americans with $500 haircuts.

I have been following the debates very closely, the Cliton campaign has been on a rampage there, trying to say how much experience Hillary has to run the country. Her husband has foreshadowed her campaign as he runs from state to state representing her. Has anybody asked if Bill Cliton is running for a third term as president, which is against the Constitution?

If this were about the issues, John Edwards would be winning this going away. He has led on all the major issues; the other two have followed. His plans are more detailed and far less beholden to big interests (like both Obama's & Hillary's, Obama's in particular).

When are Americans going to wake the hell up and vote based on issues and ability to lead, not on fancy rhetoric and name recognition? For example, when polled, huge numbers of Obama's supporters don't know his stands on issues. They are following him based on some vague, lofty rhetoric. And many Hillary supporters are voting for her because she's Bill's wife. Or they're voting based on Obama being black and Clinton being a woman. It's ridiculous. American voters are lazy and/or uninformed.

Oh, what's the use. Lynn, I'm afraid you are a perfect example of the consequences of a media blackout. I bet you know that Obama used to be a "community organizer," don't you? (You probably don't know that his political career has been funded largely by Wall Street firms that surely don't want a true reformer like Edwards in power ...) You probably still believe that other media fantasy that Edwards "lived" in Iowa for four years before the caucuses; in reality, he spent fewer days there in 2007 than most other candidates, including the completely invisible Chris Dodd.

This time around I am voting for who I believe in, even if I have to write his name on the ballot myself.

Watch Edwards speaking at the LCV in Los Angeles and tell me he isn't ready to lead our country to "greener" pastures.

http://www.johnedwards.com/media/video/lcv/

I wonder if this will be posted. I really do.

Is CNN and other media outlets oblivious to this fact. No! I think they are deliberately and unfairly giving John Edwards low coverage. The guy beats Hillary Clinton in Iowa and everyone is still carrying on about Obama and Hillary. I know its a free press and the media is free to report on what it wants, but come on guys, give John Edwards equal coverage. He is in this race and I think with some more coverage, he can pull it off and win the nomination od the Democratic Party. Do it and let's see what happens! The selection of a Party's candidates should be made by the citizens, not the media. Let it be a fair and unbias process!!

I am and have been an Edwards supporter and I just wish he would have said this earlier – but hey, better late than never. It takes all I have to not throw things at my TV when I watch the fawning and exclusive coverage of the two "fronterunners." But Edwards will keep going and hopefully he will actually get some much deserved coverage. If he's doing as well as he is without a fair shake in the media, imagine how his numbers can improve if he gets any actual coverage.

And for those of you who think he should drop out if he doesn't win SC – please read the great post by AW in Santo Domingo about why he will still matter – both for his delegates and for his much-needed voice of reason and of the people (you remember us, right CNN?). He will wield a lot of power.

You consider Edwards 'filthy rich,' and perhaps he is now, but, he wasn't always. He was raised blue-collar. His father worked in a mill, and John was a first-generation college student. He was worked hard to get where he is today. Do you think that Hillary and Obama are not filthy rich? I have news for you–they are! And, they always have been. I want a president who has felt my financial woes.

Secondly, Edwards has spent his life fighting the huge corperations that presently control every aspect of our lives including the government and the media. After all , who the hell do you think owns all the media outlets that filter the news to you? The same corporations who selected (note I didn't say elected) G.W. Bush as president for the last 7 years! And G.W. has done a fine job of making them all billions at our expense, in tax dollars, quality of life and the deaths of our children.

Thirdly, these corporations know that John Edwards would be the biggest threat to them ensconcing another Republican corporate lackey in White House and continuing their booming business. They also know that this country is not yet ready to elect a woman or a black man to the presidency. It's a sad reality but your a liar if you dont, deep down, acknowledge that it's true.

This is why only Hillary and Obama get priority coverage. They know that neither one of them has a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected, so vote for John Edwards. He' the only one who has a prayer.

I DON'T want to compromise with the awful people who have run roughshod and laughing (all the way to the bank) over the middle and working classes - not to mention the Constitution! - for going on 8 years now. If compromise is Obama's idea of "change," he won't get anywhere. We all know they will laugh behind their hands while they dream up their next set of election-stealing tricks. Edwards would set the tone, investigate the abuses of the last 8 years and get more like-minded Democrats elected to Congress.

B
Blue Mississippi

Considering the fact that Edwards is the only candidate that stands a chance at beating a republican in the general election, all democrats should be infuriated at the media's treatment of his candidacy. When the democrat candidates were pitted against the republican candidates in the polls, Edwards was the only one that won. Obama's anti-gun policy and his association with a radical church will prevent him from winning in a general election. As for Hillary, you either love her or you hate her, and there are many more that hate her in this nation than those that love her. I am voting for who I think will win a general election and that person is John Edwards. I know that we love to see milestones happen (a female candidate or an African-American candidate), but I don't want those milestones to happen at the expense of this general election. I don't know about you, but I certainly don't want another 8 years of a republican White House!

Besides, I don't know how many of you out there make six figures, but I sure don't! Edwards is the only candidate who is capable of empathizing with the working class. Since when has Hillary or Obama had to work in order to put food on the table or has worried over whether or not they will be able to pay for a doctor's appointment. This nation has real problems and needs a president with real solutions.

It just figures that both Cnn & Fox decided who we the people should vote for. You all have it wrong. Just give us the facts about each candidate and let us be the judge. Some of the questions you all ask on the debates are so stupid.

Edwards is right on this one.

You the media do not have the guts to ask President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and all the other members of the administration the tough questions.

I guess I do not blame you, for you do not want to be fired.

I truly wished you had the guts to give us the straight facts like Link TV does.

I also wish that all the candidates running for President , did not promise us everything. All I ask is that they level with us and tell us the real facts. We will not have better health insurance or lower prices on medicine untill we lower the profit the CEO's and the stock holders get.

This is for Lou Dobbs. The way you have approach the illegal immigration issue has cause the KKK and all the other hate groups to increase their membership. It also has cause the Hispanics that are citizens of this U.S. of America to be treated bad by this hate groups and also regular Anglo's . Here in Texas we have just barely gotton over the mis-treatment by Anglos, and because of your show, it has started again. My father was born in Texas in 1901 and his mother was also born in Texas. We have been in Texas for over 200 hundred years.

Lou Dobbs, you do not have the guts to go after the employers the same way you do against the poor illegal, by that I mean show the faces of this employers over and over again. Go after the CEO who steal from their Companies. Like the CEO of United Health Care Ins. CO. Show his face day in and day out.
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I will repeat, IGNORANCE.

When Nevada polls show a "dead heat" between the three candidates and the only coverage is of Obama and Clinton, then there is an obvious selectivity occurring.

So, all you Hillary and Barack supporters, you don't care if the media favors your candidate of choice? You don't care if the coverage slights another candidate, so long as you are on the path to winning? That is how the politics of "unity," "hope," and "experience" play out? That's the kind of America you want?

Wanting an electorate more informed about Britney Spears than your candidate's positions is an ideologically bankrupt way to win - what hypocrites!

Obama 2008

And to Omar, with regard to your advice to Edwards (DO what is best for the DNC.), I'd like to ask "When is the DNC going to do what is best for regular Americans?"

Certainly not during another Clinton administration...

No one mentions that Edward beat Clinton in Iowa while spending a third of what either Clinton or Obama spent to "buy" their votes. As a taxpayer, I want a Commander in Chief who is prudent with his money.

If we elect Obama or Clinton, the Dems will be no better than their counterpart in Mitt Romney, who is throwing money around like a drunken sailor in his efforts to secure the presidency.

Do we want a president who is a spendthrift or do we want a president who will work hard and spend wisely? Edwards is campaigning using hard work and shoe leather it takes him to connect with voters – county by county and state by state.

I'm and Iowan with a print background, and I was nauseous at the sight of the expensive mailers that clogged by mailbox from the Clinton and Obama campaigns. Checkbook campaigning is easy and paper is just great, but Edwards was HERE. In person and taking his voice to the people.

Jasmine

Not true he not getting fair coverage.We arent complaining We are just telling the media to give him fair coverage even if we are not voting for him or not.I dont know weather to agree with some of these guys saying its because of profits that the media making and that why they are not giving him his fair share because they are afraid if he gets in the whitehouse the media profits will go down I aint syaing I am agreeing with it or disagree with it.But the reason why people are upset and now John Edwards is because Fred Thompson and Rudy are getting more media coverage than he is and the republican side none of the media saying itsa two man race.The funny thing isfred Thompson and rudy are doign worser than ron paul and huckabee on the republican side but the media does'nt care they rather do media coverage on those instead of ron paul. Its just the world we live in the media has the right to tell us what to believe instead of telling us the facts and being fair and etc.Because like it or not we all have freedom of speech even the media.