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=__ John Edwards__ for President '08=

Building One America for //Everyone//

 * ===//Proud member of the Democratic Party//===



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 * Thank You for Supporting My Campaign!
 * I Promise To...**
 * **End Poverty in the Next Generation**
 * **Provide Universal Health Care**
 * **Restore America's Place as a Leader of the World**
 * **Immediately Withdraw All Troops from Iraq**
 * **Strengthen Homeland Security**
 * **Build a New Energy Economy Based on Renewable Resources**
 * **Fight Terrorism**
 * **Put an End to Genocide**
 * **Make College More Affordable for Everyone**

=The Issues…=

> **I plan to remove the troops from Iraq and end the war within the first year of my presidency.** > > **I am against the war in Iraq that has killed thousands of American soliders.** > > **I want America to understand that there is no military solution to Iraq's problems.** > > **The only way to free Iraq from the clutches of sectarian violence is by letting them solve the problems on their own and taking a diplomatic approach to the issues.** > > **I opposed President Bush's "surge" because it is senseless to escalate the violence when we are trying to achieve peace and stability.** > > **President Bush has taken this war farther than he has been authorized by Congress and has dug America and our vulnerable economy into a deep hole that he needs to account for.** > > **The reason we got into this war in the first place was because the Iraqi people couldn't take care of themselves properly. Now we must solve the problem once and for all by training the Iraqi people to maintain their own police forces so we can safely bring our own troops out of Iraq.**



> **I have a plan to create a national security budget, which will include all security activities.** > > **I will double the recruiting budget in the military to help bring in more effective soldiers.** > > **I plan to reinforce the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Act (SAFER) to strengthen local governments' emergency response capabilities.** > > **The first step to surviving terrorism is to prevent it. I plan to install a COPS II program to organize more counter-terrorist analysts and intelligence officers to detect terrorist activity before it happens so no more people can get hurt.**



> **I have a long term goal of granting every citizen healthcare.** > > **I plan to implement numerous stepping stone jobs into our society to help the unemployed.** > > **I will work with company managers to make for better health coverage in jobs.** > > **I will help to insure families that can't afford healthcare.** > > **I will make sure businesses either insure their employees or help pay for health insurance.** > > **I will make insurance cheaper by starting new tax credits, reinforcing Medicaid and SCHIP, and fixing insurance laws.** > > **I will start "Regional Healthcare Markets" so that all Americans can share the bargaining power to pay for a high-quality healthcare plan, increase the number of options between insurance plans, and make it easier for businesses to cover their employees.**



> **I believe that all of our children deserve an equal chance to get an excellent education. All are born equal under the Constitution, and this makes all entitled to equal opportunity.** > > **I promise to provide universal preschool for all children age four regardless of race, gender, or economic status.** **In this way, we can start good studying and learning habits in them while they're still young and moldable, and give them a head-start to a bigger and brighter future.** > > **I plan on helping other states replicate the revolutionary Smart Start program from my home state of North Carolina.** **Smart Start is recognized around the nation for its work in funding children's education and promoting healthy growth and development of young minds.** > > **I support raising teachers' paychecks in accomplished high-poverty schools by up to $15,000 a year.** **This will not only reward them for their tireless work in helping catch up the students who have had less opportunity than others, but will also provide an incentive to continue quality tutelage and encourage other educators to follow their example.** > > **I believe each child deserves to go to an outstanding public school with high standards of achievement no matter where they live. Many of our nation's children are underprivileged and without equal opportunity, and not only should we help them bridge the gap but we should believe in their ability to do so themselves as well.**



> **I will bring more economic benefits to the American people.** > > **I will help homeowners that are at the risk of foreclosure by installing the Home Rescue Fund.** > > **I will restore America as a leading power in the world.**



> **I will make investment taxes the same for everyone.** > > **I will lower federal taxes as a whole.** > > **I will make it so that 50 million Americans will have their tax returns done by the IRS.**



> **I will campaign in schools about the severity of global warming and why it will impact us and especially them in the future.** > > **I am conducting a “Carbon Neutral” Campaign, making sure that as I'm on the road to the White House I'm also on the right path to a pollution-free future.** > > **I will promote saving energy and recycling so that everyone gets the message of what we need to to do clean up after ourselves and start changing our old bad habits for the better. Change is the only way to move forward, and I will make sure that it is a top priority.** > > **I will help guide the global community come together into organizing and pledging to honor an international climate change prevention treaty. We have accomplished much ourselves, but this is one thing we all must do together if it is to work.** > > **The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has declared that global warming definitely exists. Instead of remaining in denial, we must face the truth: that we have unwittingly caused tremendous damage to the planet we strive to develop and must put an end to the problem once and for all.**



> I will stop the production of nuclear weapons in the United States. > > I will promote the idea of ridding the world of nuclear weapons. > > I will get rid of nuclear weapons in unstable governments.



> **I plan to cut poverty by a third by 2016.** > > **I hope to eliminate poverty completely by 2036.** > > **I will implement a work and reward system in companies.** > > **I will raise the minimum wage and create stepping stone jobs to help the unemployed.** > > **I am going to focus on changing poverty rates in America.**

> > **I want people to realize that freedom of choice and freedom of privacy are rights guaranteed by the Constitution.** > > **I am against legislation that takes away a woman's right to reproductive health services provided by the government.** > > **I opposed President Bush's nominees for federal courts who are biased against women.** > > **I believe that a woman's health should come first.** > > **I am and will continue to fight laws that prevent women from getting counseling and information they need to make healthy choices about reproductive services.** > > **I want all health insurance to cover presciption contraceptives.** > > **I am in favor of appropriate sex education in schools that includes important knowledge about abstinence and contraception.**

> > **I will demote Samuel Alito from the head of the Supreme Court.** > > **I want to promote a person worthy of the position as head of the Supreme Court. I believe that Samuel Alito's ideology is putting our people's fundamental rights at risk.** > > **I want to put Democratic senators in charge in order to stand up for the core principles of the Supreme Court.**



> **I want to grant driver's licenses to immigrants who are on the path to becoming American citizens.** > > **I want to secure the border with Mexico by adding more Border Patrol and utilizing better technology to figure out when somebody is entering the US.** > > **I want to devise a better plan for illegal immigrants to earn citizenship.** > > **I will address the underlaying causes of illegal immigration.**



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Biography:

> John Edwards was born on June 10th, 1953 in Seneca, South Carolina, and raised in Robbins, North Carolina. His father Wallace Edwards worked in the textile mills for 36 years. His mother Bobbie Edwards ran a shop and worked at the post office. John was the first in his family to attend college after attending public schooling. He graduated from North Carolina State University with high honors in 1964, and in 1977 earned a law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the same year, he married his wife Elizabeth. They had two sons and two daughters together, Wade (who died in 1996). Jack, Catharine and Emma Claire. For the 20 years that followed, John represented families being victimized by big corporations and special interests, specializing in personal injury law. John went into politics in 1998 and ran for the senate without accepting any money from lobbyists and never has. John won and unseated a Republican who was part of a corrupt political plot. John Edwards was a distinguished member of the Select Committee on Intelligence. During the 2004 presidential primaries, Edwards traveled the country speaking out about what he called 'the Two Americas': one for the people on top of society who have everything they need and one for everyone else who struggles to make ends meet. He was selected by John Kerry as his running mate for the 2004 general election. Edwards is a past director of the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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