Campaigns on Bittorrent

[shirish]

Hi all,
It's nice to see people using bittorent in innovative ways. Politician/Senator John Edwards is using bittorrent to further his own cause. Download the torrent here & here

It does have Danny Glover (the guy best remembered with Mel Gibson in all the 4 Lethal Weapon movies)

 

[Nikhil]

Mind telling what his cause is ??

I dont want to download the whole frigging thing to realise that he is joining the Republican party for the next elections :rofl:

 

[shirish]

First of all he's a democratic as can be seen from his entry at Wikipedia . An interesting fact was he successfully defended Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case. Also one of the factors in Bush becoming the President of US.

Some of his issue stances :-

Issue stances

While campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, Edwards completed the National Political Awareness Test. Some of Edwards' positions, ideas, and experiences with national issues which made up his campaign platform were:

* National Service: Edwards believes in increasing military compensation. He supports increasing the servicemen's refundable child tax credit and improving the pay, housing, and health care for American troops. Edwards believes that more needs to be done to support soldiers' families and has introduced legislation to expand child care for families of active duty personnel and reservists.

Sen. Edwards and Sen. Edward Kennedy announcing Mimimum Wage Bill

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Sen. Edwards and Sen. Edward Kennedy announcing Mimimum Wage Bill

* Economy: Edwards proposed a plan to stimulate the economy in the short term while restoring the long-term fiscal discipline and leveling the playing field for American businesses. Edwards has fought for more resources to let individuals and communities recover from trade-related plant closings, and is a proponent of "fairer" trade agreements.

* Education: Strengthening public schools is one of Edwards's top priorities. Edwards is against private-school voucher plans. Throughout his career John Edwards has been an advocate for Public Schools and has supported as much funding whenever possible for Public Schools. Edwards's fondness for the public school system stems from the fact that he himself was a product of public schools.

* Security & Foreign Policy: Edwards believes that the country must be protected, but not by sacrificing rights and freedoms. Edwards believes in America's right to self-defense and working within the framework of international law. Edwards believes that we must increase port security and our preparedness for a bioterrorism attack and sponsored legislation that would do such during his time in the US Senate.[29]

Edwards supported legislation to improve airport security, increase seaports safety, reduced vulnerability to bioterrorism, and enabled law enforcement agencies to keep known terrorists from entering the country. He cosponsored legislation to strengthen nuclear shipments safety (container strength, shipment escorts, and emergency coordination). Edwards is a proponent of legislation to fight cyberterrorism.

Edwards has proposed a new domestic intelligence agency to fight terrorist cells, strengthening security along borders, making terrorist targets less vulnerable to attack, and developing a better emergency warning system.

* Immigration: Edward's Senate voting record was more in favor of expanding immigration than the average senator. [30] Edwards favors increasing border security, legalization for illegal aliens, reducing border deaths. Edwards is a proponent of removing the backlog at the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services in order to encourage family reunification. Edwards believes in expediting citizenship applications and waiving the processing fees of immigrants serving in the U.S. armed forces. Edwards opposes the most recent Bush proposal to create a guest worker program without a path to citizenship- however Edwards supported all major expansions of H-1B visas-and was in fact a co-sponsor of such legislation. [31]

* Law & Justice: Edwards opposes racial profiling. He favors fostering the due process rights of all those within American borders.

* Gay Rights: Although Edwards does not support legalization of same-sex marriage, he opposes a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. He supports adoption rights for homosexual couples and overturning the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals in the U.S. military.

* Minimum Wage: Along with Senator Edward Kennedy and others, Edwards has supported legislation that would raise the American minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour. Edwards has made fighting poverty through a raise in the minimum wage a staple of his anti-poverty platform. Edwards and supporters have led efforts to raise the minimum wage through state legislation, since the U.S. Congress has repeatedly rejected such a raise. In 2006, his home state of North Carolina did raise its minimum wage, perhaps due in part to his advocacy.

The entry in wikipedia is interesting, esp. his positioning on tort reform as well as Predatory Lending both the terms which I came to know today due to his entry.

Lastly, I've not seen the video as I'm not particularly a political fellow but because a politician is embracing a technology I like. See my utorrent tutes here & here