Edwards Lets Loose on Clinton
KEENE, N.H. -- John Edwards's fingers must be cold, because his gloves just came off.
Angered by remarks made last night by Clinton spokesman Jay Carson (He told The Politico: "In order to be president, you need to do more than read articles about people who need help and talk about them," and added that Clinton was "somebody who's actually going to help people and not use them as talking points."), Edwards told reporters that the Clinton campaign "has no conscience" at an impromptu press conference in Keene.
"The idea that somehow everything is about them, I mean it's an indication that they have no conscience about what's at stake here," said Edwards.
The charges on Edwards came as the family of Nataline Sarkisyan joined him on the campaign trail today. According to the campaign, the family reached out to Edwards and not the other way around. They have also been joined by James Lowe – the man who did not have enough money to fix a cleft palate that kept him from talking for 50 years – and Sandy Lakey, the mother of the young girl who was disemboweled by a faulty pool drain and who Edwards represented in a $25 million lawsuit over ten years ago.
"They didn't come here by accident," said Edwards. "They believe they have a responsibility to their families and their children to create a better America, and to make sure what happened in the Sarkisyan family's case never happens to any other family. I'm proud of it. Everybody should be proud of it."
Edwards has made health care a top platform in his presidential bid, in no small part because of his wife Elizabeth's fight with cancer.
"If there's a campaign where health care and the fight for it for people is a personal issue, it's this campaign," said senior adviser Joe Trippi, "And for that campaign to question that in any way IS unconscionable."
The verbal battle between the Edwards and Clinton campaigns has escalated in recent days since the Iowa caucus. Edwards has made a considerable effort to paint Hillary as the "status quo" and to paint himself and Obama as the agents for change. While Clinton launched attacks against Barack Obama at last night's debate in Manchester, it was Edwards who retaliated.
"I didn't hear these kinds of attacks from Senator Clinton when she was ahead," he said. "Now that she's not, we hear them."