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In February, John Edwards was for sitting down and bringing corporations to the table to bargain about health care. Now he says he’s against it. Check out the change in his rhetoric.

John Edwards on sitting down and talking with special interests and corporations over health care, February 2007:

Edwards was asked whether he would bring in “both corporations and labor and healthcare groups and doctors” into the health care debate. Edwards said, “I think you try to bring everybody to the table. You want their participation, you want to make the system work for everybody.”

John Edwards on sitting down and talking with special interests and corporations over health care, December 28th, 2007:

“Why on earth would we expect the corporate powers and their lobbyists — who make billions by selling out the middle-class — to just give up just because we ask nicely? Nobody who takes their money and defends the broken system is going to bring change. And, unfortunately, nobody who thinks we can just sit down and talk them into compromise is going to bring change either.”

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