JOHN EDWARDS IS WOOING THEM IN IOWA!
John Edwards apparently still wants to be President of the United States. The former senator, who most agree would not have won re-election to a second Senate term in his own state and who was part of the failed Kerry-Edwards Presidential Ticket in 2004 and even then was unable to deliver South Carolina to the ticket, is busily wooing (but perhaps not wooing?) voters in Iowa.
Senator Edwards' platform appears to have fighting poverty as a central plank. Shades of Lyndon Baines Johnson! Everything old really is new again.
We have spent trillions of dollars fighting poverty for at least the last 40-50 years. And today, just as many people are still poor. So how's your program any different Senator? No answer? Kinda thought not! If Democrats during the Johnson years, when they were the majority in both Houses of Congress, were unable to win the War on Poverty, what makes this self-promoting huckster believe that he can do better?
Leftwing Democrats dearly love to appeal to class envy in their campaigns. Their adherents may not have consciously bought into the leftwing ideology of soaking the productive to support the non-productive, but they are quite comfortable benefiting from that ethos. Wonder what the too-slick-by-half Edwards would respond if someone suggested to him that a great deal of poverty exists because of poor life choices and a general lack of ambition?
My friend Marty loves to watch "Law and Order", particularly the SVU franchise. Inevitably, halfway through the program (usually when the suspect is being arraigned and his defense attorney is trying to make the prosecution's life unbearable), Marty will pronounce "I hate lawyers!" with some force. John Edwards is the kind of lawyer who cause people like Marty to feel that way. Edwards is glib, utterly cynical, and his sincerity would fit on the head of a pin with enough room left over for Bill Clinton's morality and a Hollywood agent's integrity! We have already rejected him for public office. It would be seemly of him to just go away! But like many who are so-called public figures, he doesn't have the common sense to know when to relieve us of his presence.
John Edwards, Breck girl extraordinaire, your 15 minutes are up! If you would so kindly take Cindy Sheehan, Howard Dean, Jimmy Carter, John Murtha, Francois Kerry and Harry Reid by the hand and all then all of you could just fade back into obscurity whence you came. You would then have at least made a small contribution to the America you claim to love.
John Edwards apparently still wants to be President of the United States. The former senator, who most agree would not have won re-election to a second Senate term in his own state and who was part of the failed Kerry-Edwards Presidential Ticket in 2004 and even then was unable to deliver South Carolina to the ticket, is busily wooing (but perhaps not wooing?) voters in Iowa.
Senator Edwards' platform appears to have fighting poverty as a central plank. Shades of Lyndon Baines Johnson! Everything old really is new again.
We have spent trillions of dollars fighting poverty for at least the last 40-50 years. And today, just as many people are still poor. So how's your program any different Senator? No answer? Kinda thought not! If Democrats during the Johnson years, when they were the majority in both Houses of Congress, were unable to win the War on Poverty, what makes this self-promoting huckster believe that he can do better?
Leftwing Democrats dearly love to appeal to class envy in their campaigns. Their adherents may not have consciously bought into the leftwing ideology of soaking the productive to support the non-productive, but they are quite comfortable benefiting from that ethos. Wonder what the too-slick-by-half Edwards would respond if someone suggested to him that a great deal of poverty exists because of poor life choices and a general lack of ambition?
My friend Marty loves to watch "Law and Order", particularly the SVU franchise. Inevitably, halfway through the program (usually when the suspect is being arraigned and his defense attorney is trying to make the prosecution's life unbearable), Marty will pronounce "I hate lawyers!" with some force. John Edwards is the kind of lawyer who cause people like Marty to feel that way. Edwards is glib, utterly cynical, and his sincerity would fit on the head of a pin with enough room left over for Bill Clinton's morality and a Hollywood agent's integrity! We have already rejected him for public office. It would be seemly of him to just go away! But like many who are so-called public figures, he doesn't have the common sense to know when to relieve us of his presence.
John Edwards, Breck girl extraordinaire, your 15 minutes are up! If you would so kindly take Cindy Sheehan, Howard Dean, Jimmy Carter, John Murtha, Francois Kerry and Harry Reid by the hand and all then all of you could just fade back into obscurity whence you came. You would then have at least made a small contribution to the America you claim to love.
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