As Rivals Continue To Tear Each Other Apart, The
"Grown Up" Wing Of The Democratic Party Releases Two New Ads

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Edwards campaign unveils new television and radio ads in South Carolina one day before voters head to the polls

Columbia, South Carolina – As Senators Clinton and Obama continue to squabble, the John Edwards for President campaign today released two new ads in South Carolina focusing on the issues that really matter to the American people in this election.

The new 30-second television spot "Grown Up" includes clips from last Monday's South Carolina debate where Senators Clinton and Obama launch viscous personal attacks against each other. These attacks are contrasted with Edwards' "grown up" response where he reminds voters that this election is not about us personally â€“ but rather "what we are trying to for this country."

In the new radio ad, "What Really Matters," Edwards says he is "proud to represent the grown up wing of the Democratic Party."

"While Senator Clinton and Senator Obama seem intent on tearing each other down, I'm intent on building you up," Edwards says in the 60-second ad. "And, as your President, I'll fight everyday to strengthen the middle class, create good paying jobs, stop unfair trade deals, and make our government work for the American people, not for a bunch of irresponsible corporations."

Today, on the last day before the primary, Edwards is campaigning across South Carolina to meet with voters and tell them, as president, he will never forget the voices of South Carolina's working families. Joined by James Lowe, his parents Bobbie and Wallace Edwards, his daughter, Cate, and Rev. James Blassingame of Sumter, South Carolina, Edwards is discussing his bold plans to make sure America's working families have a voice in Washington.

Transcripts, as well as links to watch and listen to the new ads, are included below.

"Grown Up," (30 seconds â€“ television)

Watch: http://www.johnedwards.com/ads/grown-up

SENATOR OBAMA: While I was working on those streets, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board of Wal-Mart.

SENATOR CLINTON: I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner-city Chicago.

EDWARDS: This kind of squabbling - how many children is this gonna get health care? How many people are gonna get an education from this? This is not about us personally. It is about what we are trying to do for this country.

I'm John Edwards and I approve this message.

"What Really Matters" (60 seconds â€“ radio)

Listen: http://www.johnedwards.com/media/audio/what-really-matters-sc-radio-ad/

ANNOUNCER: The middle class is being squeezed. An economic crisis looms. Our nation is at war. And too many Americans have no health care.

And what do we get from two Washington politicians running for President?

Nasty squabbling and personal attacks.

It's time we had a grown up in the White House who understands us and will actually get something done for the middle class.

EDWARDS: I'm John Edwards and I approved this message because I'm proud to represent the grown up wing of the Democratic Party.

While Senator Clinton and Senator Obama seem intent on tearing each other down, I'm intent on building you up.

This campaign isn't about us personally. It's about what we're trying to do for this country.

I understand the struggles middle class families face, just like mine did right here in South Carolina.

And, as your President, I'll fight everyday to strengthen the middle class, create good paying jobs, stop unfair trade deals, and make our government work for the American people, not for a bunch of irresponsible corporations.

It's time we had a President who will stand up for the American people.

ANNOUNCER: Paid for by John Edwards for President.

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Mikes Blog Roundup

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David Seaton’s News Links: The present election campaign demonstrates that powerful forces in the Washington political and foreign policy communities, reinforced by financial and industrial interests, are committed to suppressing all challenge to policies that already have altered the political character of the United States. The Pump Handle: Another censored environmental report (Arctic Drilling Edition)sardonic [...]

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Dynamite, Marijuana and Witchcraft

post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 25 January 2008 11:00:14 AM. © My Left Wing - Front Page

Would it not reasonable to assume that the unrestricted sale of dynamite would pose a far greater threat to the public safety than Marijuana. I'll go further than that cocaine , methamphetamine , and heroin while indeed dangerous to the user are nothing compared to dynamite. I came across this story by pure accident and what I found shocked me to say the very least.

The other day while scrounging through old newspaper archives I came across a 1906 story citing a lynching which had occurred in Salisbury , North Carolina. The week before an angry mob had gone to the county jail in Salisbury armed with dynamite. These vigilantes had threatened to blow the jail up unless the Sheriff handed over two African American men who were in his custody. Obviously fearing for his own life the Sheriff immediately released the 2 black men to the lawless gang of thugs who hung them in a nearby tree until both were dead.

In this 102 year old article from North Carolina a local reporter upset over the lynching was chastising his states prohibitionist lawmakers. They had banned the sale Alcohol and Cocaine but had no laws restricting the sale of Dynamite. There would be no Federal law concerning the unrestricted sale of dynamite until 64 years later in 1970.

THE ARGUS
May 3, 1970
Fremont - Newark. California
Dynamite... it 's as easy to buy as ginger snaps
By DAVID SMOTHERS
UPI Senior Editor
2 United Press International reporters proved it is easier to buy dynamite in Michigan than to get a strong Cough syrup. They picked up 12 sticks of dynamite for $13 in
a Lansing hardware store without offering any explanations, but had to sign a form to purchase a bottle of Cough syrup containing codeine in a nearby drug store.

In 1957, Dr. Robert S. de Ropp, biochemist and writer on mind affecting drugs, added this comment:
Just why the alcoholic is tolerated as a sick man while the opiate addict is persecuted as a criminal is hard to understand. There is, in the present attitude of society in the United States toward opiate addicts, much the same hysteria, superstition, and plain cruelty as characterized the attitude of our forefathers toward witches.
Legislation reflects this cruelty and superstition. Prison sentences up to 40 years are now being imposed and the death sentence has been introduced. Perhaps one should feel thankful that the legislators have not yet reached the point of burning addicts alive.
If one insists on relying on terrorism to cope with a problem which is essentially medical one may as well be logical and go the whole hog.

Only after several bombings by the Weathermen did our nations lawmakers see fit to pass any legislation regarding the unrestricted sale of dynamite. In late 1970 when the RICO act was passed they attached an amendment to it banning the unrestricted sale of explosives this obviously included dynamite. Yet 33 years earlier in 1937 they totally banned not only Marijuana but Hemp as well a plant that couldn't get you high if you smoked several acres of it. In 1914's Harrison Narcotics Tax Act the legal sales of Cocaine and Opiates (Opium , Morphine , and Heroin) were restricted but not totally banned like Marijuana was in 1937. Even today you can legally get treated with opiates and cocaine under a physicians care but not Marijuana.

Everything about the failed war on drugs is insane. Restricting the sale of or Banning drugs outright several decades before restricting the sale of dynamite in my opinion fit's the definition of insanity.

To prohibit vice is not ordinarily considered within the police power of the state," asserted the CALIFORNIA State Supreme Court in an 1887 opium case (In re Sic), "The object of the police power is to protect rights from the assaults of others, not to banish sin from the world or make men moral."

We need our police to focus on violent crime instead of assuming the role of moral squads and terrorizing pot smokers in their homes. Were well on the road to a total police state instead of a democracy. The drug war breeds Fascism , corruption , and greed.

REAGAN DRUG WAR PROFITEER

In 1983 Reagan Officials purged our nations Libraries of any Drug Literature prior to 1980. They removed all medical & scientific literature that defined addiction as a disease instead of a crime. Dan Baum reporter with Wall Street Journal & Rolling Stone as well as the author of Smoke & Mirrors: The War on Drugs & the Politics of Failure comments on the GOP Book Purging in this 38 second video.

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I recently read a book by Richard Lawrence Miller that every freedom loving American should be required to read. This book literally sent chills down my spine the name of it is Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State.

The excerpt below is from another one of Richard Lawrence Miller's fine works.

In my files I have a story of children bound in ropes and shackled in leg irons, taken against their will to facilities where some were malnourished, where some were psychologically tortured, some physically tortured- -one until his ribs broke, another bleeding while he was hauled along pavement in handcuffs. In these same facilities children were subjected to dubious medical research, with results printed in scientific journals, whose staffs praised the determination of the experimenter, and ignored the plight of the experimental animals.
Those incidents, however, did not occur in Germany during World War II. They occurred in the United States during the drug war in the 1980s. The victims were teenagers who smoked marijuana.
TEENS AND MARIJUANA:
ETHICS OF RESEARCH
Richard Lawrence Miller

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Boxer Introduces Bill to Overrule EPA on Cali.
Law

post from TPMmuckraker on 25 January 2008 10:59:08 AM. © TPMmuckraker

Rather than wait for litigation to reach its preordained conclusion, Senate environmental committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has introduced a bill that would overrule EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and instruct him to grant California's waiver.

Right out of the gate, it's got bipartisan support. Cosponsors include Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Joseph Lieberman (ID, CT), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Benjamin Cardin (D-MD), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Edward Kennedy (D-MA), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Christopher Dodd (D-CT), John Kerry (D-MA), Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME), Bill Nelson (D-FL.) Barack Obama (D, IL), and Roberts Menendez (D-NJ). We'll keep you updated.

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Peter Phillips and David Kubiak: Truth Emergency
in the U.S.

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Many economists now doubt that government measures can prevent a major recession given the severe slump in the housing market, the subprime mortgage crisis, growing unemployment, declining consumer spending, and record high oil prices. Even harder times for working people are undoubtedly at hand, yet mainstream corporate media continues to lavish more attention on the Super Bowl and celebrity misadventures than measures to protect Americans from grave personal economic harm. We are spun, mislead, propagandized, and amused to death by our media conglomerates and as a result, the U.S. has become the best entertained and least informed society in the world.

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U.S.

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A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Peter Phillips and David Kubiak

Many economists now doubt that government measures can prevent a major recession given the severe slump in the housing market, the subprime mortgage crisis, growing unemployment, declining consumer spending, and record high oil prices. Even harder times for working people are undoubtedly at hand, yet mainstream corporate media continues to lavish more attention on the Super Bowl and celebrity misadventures than measures to protect Americans from grave personal economic harm. We are spun, mislead, propagandized, and amused to death by our media conglomerates and as a result, the U.S. has become the best entertained and least informed society in the world.

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The pill protects against cancer

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 25 January 2008 10:50:00 AM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Interesting. I'm sure the flat-earth society will have something to say about this.

Women on the birth control pill are protected from ovarian cancer, even decades after they stop taking it, scientists said.

British researchers found that women taking the pill for 15 years halved their chances of developing ovarian cancer, and that the risk remained low more than 30 years later, though protection weakened over time.

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One of the problems with taking a stay-at-home vacation to try and get stuff done (as I did this week) is all the bloody distractions.

This evil box on my desk, for instance, with its addictive 'net sites. And games.

Then there is the feline factor. As one friend puts it, "They curl up next to you and emit deadly sleep-inducing Z-rays." Curled up with and purred at, how the hell can any cat lover get up to get any work done?

So now it's Friday...and I've gotten jack-all done. Well, a few things: the Christmas trees are down and out at the curb, the ornaments packed away, and the needles vacuumed up (I love my Electrolux®). Now I just have to pick up and pack the rest of the crap. In the next three days, not counting time for visits to Dad and the like.

Sheesh.

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One of the problems with taking a stay-at-home vacation to try and get stuff done (as I did this week) is all the bloody distractions.

This evil box on my desk, for instance, with its addictive 'net sites. And games.

Then there is the feline factor. As one friend puts it, "They curl up next to you and emit deadly sleep-inducing Z-rays." Curled up with and purred at, how the hell can any cat lover get up to get any work done?

So now it's Friday...and I've gotten jack-all done. Well, a few things: the Christmas trees are down and out at the curb, the ornaments packed away, and the needles vacuumed up (I love my Electrolux?). Now I just have to pick up and pack the rest of the crap. In the next three days, not counting time for visits to Dad and the like.

Sheesh.

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Copy Cats

Anyone else noticing a similar dynamic developing between Mitt Romney and John McCain to the one that exists between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? We all saw Mitt Romney become changey mcchagerson after Obama won Iowa, and he's still at it, promoting[...]

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