John Edwards, Because He Has Nothing Better To Do

27. January 2008, 10:43 Uhrglendean

Newscoma offers her analogy of the Democratic Primary race up to this point. Included is this paragraph about John Edwards.

I can’t help but believe that John Edwards is done as a viable candidate for the White House at this point because if there was any state he should have taken with some ease was South Carolina but I don’t think he’s out of the running of being a very important factor as we stumble toward the Denver convention. …. Does he have a chance? In a “traditional” presidential campaign, I’d say no.

Of course he doesn’t. He never has. Nobody takes him seriously, except the really angry and envious, and a few bed wetting bloggers.

Most of the liberals who actually believe and have spent their whole lives believing the stuff he says, are the first to point out that the man is a phony.

To quote Russ Feingold:

The one that is the most problematic is (John) Edwards, who voted for the Patriot Act, campaigns against it. Voted for No Child Left Behind, campaigns against it. Voted for the China trade deal, campaigns against it. Voted for the Iraq war … He uses my voting record exactly as his platform, even though he had the opposite voting record.

Feingold left out the 2001 Bankruptcy Bill and the storing of nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, which he voted for twice. The guy is a fraud people, pure and simple.

For some reason though, a lot of people still buy into this guy’s nonsense claims that this is the “fight of his life”. Are you kidding me? Reasonable people can change their minds when given new information, but this guy has changed his mind on nearly everything.

But people still cheer when he whips up the crowd into frenzied hatred against the haves. His claims about “the rich” are as phony as his recent conversions. As William F. Buckley points out, “Eighty percent of American millionaires are first-generation wealthy.”

So why does he stir up hatred against a class of people, who for the most part, are living the American dream, the same one that he is living? Because it works, that’s why. John Edwards is a populist, a demagogue, and demagogues don’t appeal to the positive aspects of our character, they appeal to the darker side, the envy, the hatred, the prejudice, the resentment. That is the appeal of populism, the us against them mantra. Even if what he is saying is factually inaccurate, he still says it and still gets away with it, because those darker characteristics of human character tend to drown out reasonable thinking.

Of all of the candidates left in the field, John Edwards is by far the most despicable. He even makes Mrs. Clinton look good. At least she truly believes in the Chavez style socialism that she advocates. God only knows what Edwards believes in.

15 comments:

  1. Jeffraham Prestonian, 27. January 2008, 11:04

    He’s gonna make a great AG for President Obama, though.
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  4. glendean, 27. January 2008, 11:23

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    He’s gonna make a great AG for President Obama, though.

    Edwards is not a crime fighter. He has never been a prosecutor or a DA. Sure he is a lawyer, but he is an ambulance chaser. As far as I know, he has never practiced criminal law. Not enough money in it for him. Why would you support a guy like that being made the top criminal lawyer in the country?

     
  5. Jeffraham Prestonian, 27. January 2008, 11:39

    Why would you support a guy like that being made the top criminal lawyer in the country?

    He’d be the polar opposite of Gonzo.
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  6. Jeffraham Prestonian, 27. January 2008, 11:40

    I don;t think he’d have much trouble defining waterboarding as the torture that it is, either.
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    No its not.

     
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    Bullfuckingshit, Glen. We’ve prosecuted soldiers under war crimes statutes for doing it. It’s torture, and you know it.
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    Heh! I knew that would get a response. Veins popping in heads.

     
  10. Jeffraham Prestonian, 27. January 2008, 15:11

    Sure– it’s the most obvious example of law-breaking committed by this president. In order for anyone in the military to have done this, the order came from the CiC… and it is DEFINITELY against U.S. law *and* international treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory.
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