Tuesday, May 8, 2007

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 Edwards Discusses Hedge Fund Job ['Rat Hypocrisy]

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Associated Press ^  (Related)   | May 8 | Nedra Pickler

 Posted on  05/08/2007 11:27:19 AM PDT  by Enchante  (Related)  Enchante

 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Tuesday that he worked for a hedge fund to learn more about financial markets and their relationship to poverty in the United States.

 Edwards won't disclose how much he got paid as a consultant to Fortress Investment Group, but said he did keep the money.

 "It was primarily to learn, but making money was a good thing, too," the 2004 vice presidential nominee said in an interview with The Associated Press.

 .....

  Edwards said it's legitimate to ask questions about whether there is a contradiction between campaigning against poverty while working for a hedge fund that is designed to make rich people richer. He said the job was a compliment [sic] to his position as the head of a poverty center at the University of North Carolina.

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1  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:27:23 AM PDT  by Enchante  (Related) 
 To:  Enchante

 Oh, YEAH.... the Breck Girl strikes again...... anti-poverty demagogue John Edwards just had to take big bucks in a Demagogue slush fund maneuver from the same company that just happens to turn into his number one source of campaign contributions now...... and it was about “learning” about poverty in the USA!!!!

 Good heavens, now every Demagogue has the ready-made excuse....... no matter what slush funds they are tapping into, they can say that they study and learn about big money so that they can better understand POVERTY!!!

 Spare us the sanctimonious b.s., Breck Girl!



2  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:31:04 AM PDT  by Enchante  (Related)  
(Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
 To:  Enchante
 Didn’t think you paid a consultant to learn...????

3  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:31:41 AM PDT  by gov_bean_ counter  (Related)  
( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
 To:  Enchante

 Que? He worked there to learn about markets yet was hired as a consultant?



4  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:33:26 AM PDT  by P-40  (Related)  
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
 To:  Enchante
 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Tuesday that he worked for a hedge fund to learn more about financial markets and their relationship to poverty in the United States.

 What's revealing about this is just how ignorant and stupid Edwards must think his supporters are.

5  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:34:27 AM PDT  by SirJohnBarleycorn  (Related) 
 To:  gov_bean_ counter; P-40

 re: learning on the job

 Yeah, if that hedge fund company weren’t run by incestuous Demagogues helping Edwards they might actually care that their high-priced “consultant” didn’t know squat about the business and was only brought on the payroll as a way to funnel money into his pockets while allowing him to “learn” about financial markets and “poverty” in the USA.



6  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:36:10 AM PDT  by Enchante  (Related)  
(Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
 To:  P-40
 Sounds like something straight off the pages of Dilbert.

  Breckbert, the consultant.

7  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:37:01 AM PDT  by gov_bean_ counter  (Related)  
( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
 To:  P-40
 Because markets deal with poverty every day.

  Could have taken a few economics courses, but he wouldn’t have gotten paid millions for those.

  He also could have volunteered anonymously at a homeless shelter for a year to learn about poverty, but that’s what the other America does.

8  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:38:37 AM PDT  by keepitreal  (Related) 
 To:  P-40
 Because markets deal with poverty every day.

  Could have taken a few economics courses, but he wouldn’t have gotten paid millions for those.

  He also could have volunteered anonymously at a homeless shelter for a year to learn about poverty, but that’s what the other America does.

9  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:38:45 AM PDT  by keepitreal  (Related) 
 To:  Enchante

 His ‘job’ sounds more like a way to get around campaign finance rules. I wonder if the money was paid to a limited partnership instead of to him directly.



10  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:39:57 AM PDT  by P-40  (Related)  
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
 To:  SirJohnBarleycorn
 What's revealing about this is just how ignorant and stupid Edwards must think his supporters are.

 I think he may be largely right.

11  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:40:55 AM PDT  by Bahbah  (Related)  
(Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
 To:  gov_bean_ counter

 With Dilbert it is hard to tell where comedy ends and reality starts. :)



12  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:41:15 AM PDT  by P-40  (Related)  
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
 To:  Enchante
 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Tuesday that he worked for a hedge fund to learn more about financial markets and their relationship to poverty in the United States.

 LOL..

 I'll buy that argument

 /s

13  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:42:44 AM PDT  by Vinnie  (Related)  
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
 To:  P-40
 Some days I would swear Scott Adams walks the corridors of my organization. LOL!

14  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:43:30 AM PDT  by gov_bean_ counter  (Related)  
( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
 To:  Enchante
 I read that John Edwards has the biggest house in his county.

  Poverty crusader my foot!

15  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 11:53:36 AM PDT  by what's up  (Related) 
 To:  Enchante
 I thought he already knew about poverty from the time he and his family had to leave the restaurant because they couldn't afford the menu.

 What a pantload!

16  (Related)   posted on  05/08/2007 12:09:33 PM PDT  by anoldafvet  (Related)  
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