{"id":3383,"date":"2007-09-14T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/elizabeth-edwards-takes-on-mov.html"},"modified":"2007-09-14T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T22:28:00","slug":"elizabeth-edwards-takes-on-mov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/elizabeth-edwards-takes-on-mov.html","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Edwards takes on Moveon.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You go, girl!  It&#8217;s about time someone on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0907\/A_Sistah_Souljah_moment.html\">left criticized the ad<\/a>. Maybe the actual Democrat presidential candidates will be as bold as Edwards&#8217; wife now that she was the first to do it (but I wouldn&#8217;t count on it):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Someone who&#8217;s spent their life in the military doesn&#8217;t deserve \u2018General Betray Us,'&#8221; said Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">via<\/a>)<br \/>\nIf Edwards is elected, does he intend to send his wife to Capital Hill to handle Congress? And will she be the one that heads of state will be calling?  Does she intend to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,293246,00.html\">fight all his battles for him<\/a>?<br \/>\nAnd let&#8217;s give it up for Rudy who <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070914\/ap_on_el_pr\/giuliani_war_ads_15\">takes on Clinton himself <\/a>and doesn&#8217;t let his wife do it for him.<br \/>\nBTW, like most middle school taunts the ad is pretty effective. Now when I hear Petraeus&#8217;  name I think of the taunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You go, girl! It&#8217;s about time someone on the left criticized the ad. Maybe the actual Democrat presidential candidates will be as bold as Edwards&#8217; wife now that she was the first to do it (but I wouldn&#8217;t count on it): &#8220;Someone who&#8217;s spent their life in the military doesn&#8217;t deserve \u2018General Betray Us,&#8217;&#8221; said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,13,14],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun","tag-democrats","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elizabeth Edwards takes on Moveon.org - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/elizabeth-edwards-takes-on-mov.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elizabeth Edwards takes on Moveon.org - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You go, girl! 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