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To: Road Walker who wrote (363177)	12/20/2007 4:02:13 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579850

Mr. Edwards replied, “Some people argue that we’re going to sit at a table with these people and they’re going to voluntarily give their power away. I think it is a complete fantasy; it will never happen.” This was pretty clearly a swipe at Mr. Obama, who has repeatedly said that health reform should be negotiated at a “big table” that would include insurance companies and drug companies. On Saturday Mr. Obama responded, this time criticizing Mr. Edwards by name. He declared that “We want to reduce the power of drug companies and insurance companies and so forth, but the notion that they will have no say-so at all in anything is just not realistic.” Hmm. Do Obama supporters who celebrate his hoped-for ability to bring us together realize that “us” includes the insurance and drug lobbies? Isn't Edwards' approach Dem business as usual and what's given the GOP amunition to attack the Dems calling them anti business? Its strikes me that if you want to unify people, we have to behave and treat each other as a community instead of disparate interest groups. It may be naive but frankly, I see it as the only way we will stop the schism that is growing in this country.