Edwards Makes A Killing Talking About Poverty

[red states rule]

You can't make this stuff up folks

Pretty Boy Edwards has made a killing lecturing about poverty and how rotten things are in America

He has made so much money talking about poverty he is building a 30,000 sq ft mansion.





Talk Isn't Cheap

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards — who made his fortune as a trial lawyer before getting into politics — was paid $55,000 to speak to students at the University of California at Davis last year.

The topic — "Poverty — the Great Moral Issue Facing America." His campaign tells FOX News the speech was part of a series at the school and was funded by sponsors and the sale of tickets — which went for as much as $45.

Edwards' financial records show he pocketed $285,000 for speeches to nine colleges and universities last year, in addition to the nearly half million he made in consulting fees from a hedge fund where he worked, he said, to learn more about the financial market's effect on poverty.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274815,00.html

 

[red states rule]

I see Pretty Boy Edwards does not have many supporters on this board

Pretty much a reflection of the rest of the country

 

[Battleborne]

What can....

anyone really say...Edwards made a fortune as a 'ambulance chaser'...feeding off of others pain...end of story!

 

[red states rule]

anyone really say...Edwards made a fortune as a 'ambulance chaser'...feeding off of others pain...end of story!

and to show his respect for the troops he is behind a nationwide anti war protests on Memorial Day

He wants the left wing moonbats to actually crash Memorial day services with their left wing crap

What class

 

[AnyOldIron]

Isn't this just a RW lovefest....

 

[red states rule]

Isn't this just a RW lovefest....

Better then burning flas and protesting the war on Memorial Day as libs want to do

 

[uscitizen]

So it is not showing respect / support for the troops to want to pull them out of danger ?

 

[Cancel7]

Better then burning flas and protesting the war on Memorial Day as libs want to do

Who burned a flag?

 

[uscitizen]

RSR I think. He is the only one I have heard talking about flag burning lately....

You know you really should not burn the American flag RSR, even if you god (bush) has fallen down. Remember it is all those darned liberals fault.

 

[red states rule]

anyone really say...Edwards made a fortune as a 'ambulance chaser'...feeding off of others pain...end of story!

This month, Mr. Edwards revealed that he had holdings worth more than $11 million in Fortress Investment Group, a $30 billion hedge-fund operator that paid Mr. Edwards $479,000 as a part-time consultant from October 2005 through December 2006. Fortress incorporated its hedge funds in the Cayman Islands as offshore tax havens, a policy that Mr. Edwards has condemned for years. Fortress has also invested billions and billions of dollars purchasing subprime mortgage portfolios, subprime mortgage lenders and subprime mortgage-servicing firms.
Meanwhile, in a story titled "John Edwards' Convenient Nonprofit," Business Week reports that Mr. Edwards conveniently hired staffers who previously worked as his political operatives and would return to his current presidential campaign in that capacity. As Mr. Edwards was raking in nearly half a million dollars as a consultant for the offshore hedge funds deeply invested in subprime mortgages, his anti-poverty center was also doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to consultants. In 2005 alone, the center spent $259,000 on consultants whom Mr. Edwards now refuses to name. Hypocrisy knows no boundaries.
http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070529-085335-3735r.htm

 

[uscitizen]

It is time to bring up the oil holdings of Cheny and Bush ?
And the Abramhoff related scandals ?

 

[cawacko]

It is time to bring up the oil holdings of Cheny and Bush ?
And the Abramhoff related scandals ?

What oil holdings do they have? How does it compare to Al Gore?

Isn't this the same argument that both sides have used repeatedly? "My side" is accused of something so let me show you where "your side" is accused of something?

 

[uscitizen]

Ype that is the way the game is played.
Or on the other hand "at least my side is not as bad as yours"

both sides suck right now.

 

[OrnotBitwise]

Better then burning flas and protesting the war on Memorial Day as libs want to do

I can't think of a better day on which to protest the war. Except, maybe, Armistice Day.

 

[red states rule]

It is time to bring up the oil holdings of Cheny and Bush ?
And the Abramhoff related scandals ?

So Bush/Cheney invest in oil companies - so what

Alot of Dems took Aramboff money

Edwards is a poverty pimp - and he is making millions doing it

 

[uscitizen]

Yep you are of course corerect, but your logic make war pimps out of Bush and cheney.

 

[TheStripey1]

You can't make this stuff up folks

Pretty Boy Edwards has made a killing lecturing about poverty and how rotten things are in America

He has made so much money talking about poverty he is building a 30,000 sq ft mansion.

So? Do you expect him to work for free? Why? would you work for free?

How many republicans make money when they give lectures? I'll tell ya, rattlesnakerunt, all of them...

do you bitch about them, too?

 

[TheStripey1]

and to show his respect for the troops he is behind a nationwide anti war protests on Memorial Day

He wants the left wing moonbats to actually crash Memorial day services with their left wing crap

What class

got a link or are you just passing gas again?

 

[TheStripey1]

Better then burning flas and protesting the war on Memorial Day as libs want to do

link, cretin, got one?

 

[TheStripey1]

So it is not showing respect / support for the troops to want to pull them out of danger ?

not to rsr, he wants them in harms' way... it's his blood lust... as long as HE doesn't have to shed any he doesn't care how long they stay in Iraq.