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News > Elizabeth Edwards Speaks Out - Women, Minorities, the Poor Hardest Hit

From CIO Insight:

With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hogging media coverage, campaigns can push their messages without paying for ads.

"In some ways, it's the way we have to go," Edwards says. "We can't make John black, we can't make him a woman. Those things get you a lot of press, worth a certain amount of fundraising dollars. Now it's nice to get on the news, but not the be all and end all."

In a Salon interview Elizabeth Edwards said of Hillary Clinton:

"She's just not as vocal a women's advocate as I want to see. John is."

And John Edwards wife isn't crazy about her trailer-dwelling neighbor who lives in the cheap seats of the Two Americas:

Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.

Johnson, 55, acknowledges his Republican roots. But he takes offense to the suggestion he has purposefully left his property, including an old garage that he leases for use as a car shop, in dilapidated condition.

Shorter Elizabeth Edwards: vote for the rich white male in 2008!

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