Edwards is charging to the front!

Read this short diary from a guy on the ground in IA for Edwards. Here’s the teaser quote:

‘I timed the speech and counted the number of times that applause forced Edwards to either pause or raise his voice. In 23 minutes, he was interrupted 11 times, with many other instances of lesser applause. My personal favorite among the applause lines (and this is a paraphrase): “No corporate CEO is any better than any of you.”‘

Get on board the Freedom Train right here!

‘The Final Straw’

From Think Progress we have this statement from a letter written by Lt. Cmdr. Andrew Williams, a JAG officer with the U.S. Naval Reserve, recently resigned his commission over the alleged use of torture by the United States and the destruction of video tapes said to contain instances of that torture.:

‘The final straw for me was listening to General Hartmann, the highest-ranking military lawyer in charge of the military commissions, testify that he refused to say that waterboarding captured U.S. soldiers by Iranian operatives would be torture.

His testimony had just sold all the soldiers and sailors at risk of capture and subsequent torture down the river. Indeed, he would not rule out waterboarding as torture when done by the United States and indeed felt evidence obtained by such methods could be used in future trials.

Thank you, General Hartmann, for finally admitting the United States is now part of a long tradition of torturers going back to the Inquisition.

In the middle ages, the Inquisition called waterboarding “toca” and used it with great success. In colonial times, it was used by the Dutch East India Company during the Amboyna Massacre of 1623.

Waterboarding was used by the Nazi Gestapo and the feared Japanese Kempeitai. In World War II, our grandfathers had the wisdom to convict Japanese Officer Yukio Asano of waterboarding and other torture practices in 1947, giving him 15 years hard labor.

Waterboarding was practiced by the Khmer Rouge at the infamous Tuol Sleng prison. Most recently, the U.S. Army court martialed a soldier for the practice in 1968 during the Vietnam conflict.

General Hartmann, following orders was not an excuse for anyone put on trial in Nuremberg, and it will not be an excuse for you or your superiors, either.

Despite the CIA and the administration attempting to cover up the practice by destroying interrogation tapes, in direct violation of a court order, and congressional requests, the truth about torture, illegal spying on Americans and secret renditions is coming out.’

Contact the folks on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Feingold and Whitehouse are members about their ‘oversight’ of this issue.

And looky, looky…there’s that pesky thing that won’t go away!

Edwards puts his money where his mouth is….And he did it some time ago!

Hill, Barrack? JRE knows how to get it done guys. Here is one way.

Good News from a Recent Poll for Edwards Supporters….That’s Us!

Here it is:

From McClatchy/MSNBC.

First, here are the links for you:  the News Story, and the full results in PDF.

Who’s winning?

24% John Edwards
23% Hillary Clinton
22% Barack Obama

Obviously, it’s close.  Well within the margin of error.

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What’s the movement since the last McClatchy/MSNBC poll before the holidays?

+3 John Edwards
-3 Barack Obama
-4 Hillary Clinton

We can see Edwards picking up substantial support while both Obama and Clinton see support slipping away.

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Who’s the second choice candidate of Iowa Dems?

36% John Edwards
25% Barack Obama
11% Hillary Clinton

Now things start getting interesting.  Not only is Edwards narrowly winning the first choice, but he’s easily winning the second choice.

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And now comes the best news for folks who want John Edwards to be our nominee.

If supporters of the non-major candidates are forced into their second choice, who’s winning?

33% John Edwards
26% Hillary Clinton
26% Barack Obama

Were this to be the result you would be looking at a whole new ball-game for President.