Webcast Health Forums

Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) will be the first of at least nine presidential candidates to participate in a series of webcast forums on healthcare reform co-sponsored by a liberal advocacy group, Families USA and a hospital lobbying organization, Federation of American Hospitals.

Each event will feature a single candidate discussing healthcare for one hour. The candidate will make opening remarks, then take questions from a panel of journalists from PBS, NPR, The Wall Street Journal and ABC News.

The groups behind the events say their intention is to get the presidential candidates to offer detailed prescriptions for how they would reform the healthcare system.

“Rather than brief or meaningless sound bites, the forums will allow the candidates to explain how America’s healthcare system will change if they are elected in 2008,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA.

Schedule
Go here to see webcast http://presidentialforums.health08.org/

Submit your question for the forum:

Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.)
Monday, September 24, 2007 at 11 a.m. ET

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)
Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 8:30 a.m. ET

Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.)
Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 11:30 a.m. ET

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 10 a.m. ET

Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.)
Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 11 a.m. ET

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.)
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 10 a.m. ET

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)TBA

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.)TBA

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)TBA

Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.)TBA

Unfair & Unbalanced

Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are at it again.

Five months ago John Edwards was the first Democrat to pull out of the Fox-sponsored debates—to show that Fox's "right-wing talking points and temper tantrums won't go unchallenged anymore.

"The other Democratic candidates followed John's example and pulled out, too. Now, it's time for us to stand up and challenge Fox again.

Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch has used the U.S. government's increasingly lax media regulations to consolidate his hold over the media and wider political debate in America.

Fox News and its parent company, News Corp—who have consistently launched right-wing attacks against Senator John Edwards, Senator Obama, Senator Clinton, Vice President Gore, and many other Democrats —are expanding their right-wing media empire by buying the Dow Jones Company and The Wall Street Journal.

Yet while Murdoch expands his empire and his influence, some Democrats continue to take money from him and other top executives at Fox News and News Corp.

This has got to stop. It is time for Democrats to stop pretending to be friends with the very people who demonize the Democratic Party and call it "news."

Every Democratic presidential candidate should refuse contributions from News Corp executives, and return any they've already taken—beginning with contributions from Rupert Murdoch. Send a message that Democrats are united against Fox News expanding its influence over our politics

We're glad that many candidates are following Johns Edwards' lead by not taking money from political action committees and federal lobbyists in this election cycle. Those PACs and lobbyists skew the system against hard-working people to advance their political agenda.

But why are some candidates still taking money from top executives at Fox News—who skew the news viewed by millions of hard-working people to advance their right-wing agenda?

Read more... http://foxattacks.com/facts.php

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/07/b122948.html

Ann Coulter wishes Senator Edwards Dead

How low and disgusting can a person get...This Monday, Ann Coulter took her pattern of personal attacks to a new level. On national television she said that rather than hurling more homophobic slurs,

"If I'm gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."

READ MORE..Huffington Post