Mickey Kaus has up an excellent post on why John Edwards’s . . . peccadilli are newsworthy. I’d like to add, under heading 2, Hypocrisy, this telling video of Edwards accepting a Father of the Year award nine months before the birth of Rielle Hunter’s daughter, complete with a humble admission that Elizabeth is a better parent and a moving tale about his dead son Wade.
Dickens couldn’t have invented a character more unctuous.
<strike>Meanwhile, Kerry says his former pick for running mate, Liebermann, is dangerous for the country. Judgement to lead.</strike>
Thanks for the heads up. It is McCain, whom he asked repeatedly to be his running mate and who refused whom Kerry called dangerous.
Because he’s trying to scare you. The Boogie Man is trying to scare you! Under the bed!
UPDATE: Simon Scowl on Edwards’s pattern of web-scrubbing.
Maybe the “Father of the Year” award has more to do with quantity of fatherhood than it does quality.
Unctuous, that’s a great word. Not as great as flensing, but marginally better than scoffing.
Edwards’ unctuousness makes me scoff. Flensingly.
Read the article you linked to again – he said McCain was dangerous for the country; he didn’t mention Lieberman.
I don’t think Edwards needs to flense his skin off, I think he does it naturally, like all reptiles.
He shouldn’t be running for office. He should be spending time with his dying wife.
There, I judged him.
“Read the article you linked to again – he said McCain was dangerous for the country; he didn’t mention Lieberman.”
Is there a ‘diff’ between the two? Oh, there might be some light squeezing through the juncture of their carcasses, but it is minimal.
Watch them grope each other at the RNC convention. If you can
stay with that, they’ll conclude with some deep kissing.
Muskrat Love……
If you cannot add any value, please, at least be funny.
This post has VALUE? Sorry, I guess humor is subjective.
Semen – English, please ?!
If my post doesn’t have value, ‘Cleo, then it won’t be considered. Simple as that. But you can’t complain about the poverty of the spread and not bring anything to the table yourself.
Dan – Semen has proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it can bring nothing to the table.
Mickey also makes an argument against a counter-factual, namely, what if Edwards had won his bid to be the party’s nominee and then been found out?
“…4. Irresponsibility: How irresponsible was it to seek the party’s nomination knowing that this scandal was lurking around, ready to explode? What if he’d won? Are we sure it wouldn’t have been discovered by the McCain campaign before November? Rock stars get to behave this badly because they’re only rock stars. Worst that happens is the band breaks up. What if Edwards actually got elected–and then the scandal was discovered when he was in office? Did Democrats enjoy the Lewinsky years?…”
But doesn’t the concept of irresponsibility apply just as well to the emptiness of Rock Star Barack “I’m not here from central casting†Obama’s political principles, his manifest lack of experience useful in an executive, his grotesque associations with the likes of Wright, Pfleger, Ayres, Dorn, Khalidi, Ali Abunimah, Rezko, et al, his failure to grasp the plain history of the nation and it’s relations with the world? What happens if he gets elected and proves to be utterly incapable of doing the job due to flaws in himself which he is best positioned to know in depth would he only take the trouble to find them out?
‘Sides, Kerry’s pick for running-mate wasn’t Liebs, it was Babydaddy Edwards. Liebs was Gore’s pick. Just goes to show how history forgets losers.
Wait a minute. A white woman. An out of wedlock child. I smell…….RACISM!
I’m late getting to this thread, but I need to point out that (C)leo has committed a redundant acronym. The “C” in “RNC” stands for Convention, as used in this context. Thus, the addition of “Convention” after “RNC” is redundant. We don’t want this to become a habit. As a particularly gross example of redundant acronym – I once heard a TV announcer mention a “SAM surface-to-air missile.” Please be more careful in the future.
Thank you
“Please be more careful in the future.”
I guess you’re right AND wrong. The upcoming Convention will, no doubt have have members of the Republican National Committee attending the convention, but the event is not named after the Committee.
Maybe there’s TWO competing acronyms, but I must confess I neither know, nor care. But thanks for trying to help.
Well, Cleo has been right about something. He is now released from having to appear in these threads ever again.
Fly, little troll. Be free!
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