Want to know why you don't hear much about John Edwards on the corporate news?
Ask corporate lobbyists which presidential contender is most feared by their clients and the answer is almost always the same -- Democrat John Edwards.
Cue the Jaws theme. Edwards is somewhere...out...there.
The former North Carolina senator's chosen profession alone raises the hackles of business people. Before entering politics, he made a fortune as a trial lawyer.In litigious America, trial lawyers bring lawsuits against companies on behalf of aggrieved individuals and sometimes win multimillion-dollar settlements. Edwards won several.
So for his being a self-made success as a lawyer, he is being demonized... why? Ohh, that's right! Because of this:
But beyond his profession, Edwards' tone and language on the campaign trail have increased business antipathy toward him. His stump speeches are peppered with attacks on "corporate greed" and warnings of "the destruction of the middle class." He accuses lobbyists of "corrupting the government" and says Americans lack universal health care because of "drug companies, insurance companies and their lobbyists."
That would be the very same middle class that a true democracy requires. You know, the one that BushCo is trying to crush so that the very wealthy can maintain complete control and the rest of us can start serving dinner buffets consisting of Alpo and Eukanuba.
[One] lobbyist said an Edwards presidency would be "a disaster" for his well-heeled industrialist clients.
And who do the Big Fat Business Types prefer?
Asked which candidate their clients most support, corporate lobbyists were unsure. Clinton has cautious backing within the corporate jet set, as do Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain and former Republican Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, they said. [...] Obama and Huckabee register largely as unknown quantities among business owners, both large and small, say lobbyists.
"My sense is that Obama would govern as a reasonably pragmatic Democrat ... I think Hillary is approachable. She knows where a lot of her funding has come from, to be blunt," said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Group Co., a market and policy analysis group.[As for Edwards:] "I think his regulatory policies, as well as his tax policies, would be viewed as a threat to business," he said."The next scariest for business would be Huckabee because of his rhetoric and because he's an unknown."
The Lone Ranger rides again.
No worries. I can kinda guess. ;)