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An Edwards Outrage
Pravda on the Potomac ^ | 10/15/04 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 10/14/2004 10:12:44 PM PDT by freespirited

After the second presidential debate, in which John Kerry used the word "plan" 24 times, I said on television that Kerry has a plan for everything except curing psoriasis. I should have known there is no parodying Kerry's pandering. It turned out days later that the Kerry campaign has a plan -- nay, a promise -- to cure paralysis. What is the plan? Vote for Kerry.

This is John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."

In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately, for personal gain, raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: johnedwards; reeves; stemcells
A must read.
1 posted on 10/14/2004 10:12:44 PM PDT by freespirited
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To: freespirited
Plandering ?

2 posted on 10/14/2004 10:15:39 PM PDT by Freesofar (The "F" in John F stands for Fool)
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To: freespirited

bttt.

Later read.


3 posted on 10/14/2004 10:22:13 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: freespirited
I said on television that Kerry has a plan for everything except curing psoriasis

If he did, that might him over the top

4 posted on 10/14/2004 10:25:40 PM PDT by GeronL (I was gone for about 2 months. I was depressed and sad. I am back now and am trying to get my wings)
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To: Freesofar

5 posted on 10/14/2004 10:25:50 PM PDT by endthematrix (Bad news is good news for the Kerry campaign!)
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To: freespirited

Devastating to the demagogue Edwards.... but who's paying attention that matters? These charlatans, Kerry and Edwards, throw out clusters of wild lies every week and never get called on it by the media. Sure, we can all criticize them here, but how will we STOP these charlatans?


6 posted on 10/14/2004 10:27:07 PM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: Freesofar

Yeah. That's "planned pandering," a speciality among the dems. Takes an expert to really get it right. Some come by it naturally, like the Boobsy twins. Others have to cultivate it carefully, like "Sheets" Byrd.But it is an essential talent for the dems.


7 posted on 10/14/2004 10:31:49 PM PDT by Adrastus (Kerry lied while good men died.)
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To: freespirited

Krauthammer is always a must read. He's great to watch on Brit Hume's show as well.


8 posted on 10/14/2004 10:34:33 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: freespirited

Wow!

Powerful stuff!!!


9 posted on 10/14/2004 10:35:56 PM PDT by Ronin (When the fox gnaws....SMILE!)
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To: freespirited
If sKerry becomes president, he sure will be able to call Reeve back to life like Jesus called Lazarus out of the tomb!!!
10 posted on 10/14/2004 10:40:23 PM PDT by danamco
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To: Freesofar

Just excellent...As usual!


11 posted on 10/14/2004 10:42:53 PM PDT by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: freespirited

bump


12 posted on 10/14/2004 11:00:47 PM PDT by Roberts
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To: freespirited
I said on television that Kerry has a plan for everything except curing psoriasis

After the first debate I told my parents, "If you've got hemorroids, Kerry's got a plan!" Looks like me and Kraut think along the same lines.

13 posted on 10/14/2004 11:05:38 PM PDT by beaversmom (Michael Medved has the Greatest radio show on GOD's Green Earth)
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To: freespirited
What struck me in Kerry's comments about his plans and what he will do, was his completely ignoring that there will be a Republican Senate, a Republican House of Representatives.

Knowing that, how could Kerry say "he" was going to change tax codes, change immigration laws, change social security.

Bush on the other hand has much more of a chance to implement what he wants to accomplish.

Kerry's statements about what he would do and Edwards statements about what their administration will accomplish don't recognize that there are three branches of government and it takes two to make things happen.

14 posted on 10/14/2004 11:29:24 PM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: freespirited

Really shows what political ambition can do to totally unprincipled people, and Kerry/Edwards are the worst of the worst.

As bad as Clinton was/is I question that he'd play with such false hope as this.

Combined with the other things: Cheney's daughter, terror as nuisance, global test, undeliverable promises.

I truly fear that Kerry would let the muslim forces grow across the globe, putting us further at risk.

And he'll say anything to get the chance to have the power to put us at risk.


15 posted on 10/14/2004 11:55:34 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Freesofar
Plandering ?

LOL. Very clever!

16 posted on 10/14/2004 11:58:27 PM PDT by ladyinred (The simple lie always conquers the more complex truth. (propaganda))
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To: freespirited

I concur fully - this is a must read.

Charles the Hammer does it again. This one is for the ages.


17 posted on 10/15/2004 5:24:43 AM PDT by Paul_B
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To: freespirited

Great article. Too bad 80% of the population will believe whatever they're spoon-fed and won't educate themselves to know just how ridiculous their statements are.


18 posted on 10/15/2004 7:32:24 AM PDT by Akira (Experience is a hard teacher, but fools will have no other.)
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To: Akira

Does anyone have pics of Elizabeth Edwards? Need it for John Edwards FReep tonight. Thanks.


19 posted on 10/15/2004 7:54:59 AM PDT by AnnaSASsyFR (www.gowisp04.org)
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