Elizabeth Edwards Joins Progressive Think Tank

Washington Post:

Former senator John Edwards (N.C.) remains on the political sidelines but that isn't stopping his wife, Elizabeth, from rejoining the fray as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Elizabeth Edwards will be dealing with health care issues at the progressive think tank founded by John Podesta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. In her new role, Edwards, who has gained a considerable following in the liberal blogosphere thanks to her willingness to vocally oppose conservative politicos from Sen. John McCain to commentator Ann Coulter -- will also be contributing to CAP's blog.

"As many can attest, I have an opinion on everything," Edwards said tonight about her new role. "But I am particularly concerned about the state of health care in America and I am grateful to CAP for giving me the chance to continue to advocate for universal and quality health care coverage for all."

Podesta, for his part, praised Elizabeth Edwards as one of the "most effective, tenacious, and caring spokespeople for progressive policies in the country."

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Comments

[CyberCitizen]

The Center for American Progress was created in 2003 as an alternative to think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. It may be a work in progress so to speak. But at least their premises are less flawed than that of AEI.

AEI started out with fundamentally flawed premises, so the more effective it is, the less successful it is. Works the same way as the Bush administration works. The more effective the Bush administration is in carrying out the AEI's flawed politicies, the more they cut themselves off at the knees and win approval ratings at about 81%.

[TuffPosh]

The Center for American Progress is a joke, but a joke of the good variety: they keep getting things wrong or making childlike arguments, thereby helping discredit themselves. See, for example, the recent false claim of plagiarism they leveled against McCain and then had to retract. They might also have made another major error more recently, but I haven't verified that (the "two-bit security guard" quote)

One of their Senior Fellows - who's married to someone who used to head a group that assisted the MexicanGovernment pass out IDCards to those who are here illegally - recently appeared to libel not just one but two politicians over at ThinkProgress:

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007538.html

They recently came up with a dishonest scheme to sell amnesty:

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007512.html

I could go on, but if you want to see several other examples search for their name at my site. They're a joke that just keeps giving.

[ronspri]

That's the best you can do? Go study the so called American Enterprise Institute. Calling AEI a "think" tank is a smear to thinking people everywhere.