[Piquaboy]

The only person this scum sucking lawyer cares about is himself.

[Jack Black]

Democracy requires an educated, sober, visionary citizenry to succeed. When the polis in Rome had become full of people only wanting bread and circus's they went to the imperial system. While there were a lot of troubles with this system it did give Rome another few hundred years of greatness.

Perhaps it is time we consider making the transition ourselves. Any electorate dumb enough to vote for someone like edwards (and millions have) can't long run a great country.

[jolie560]

I love this "...television consultants advise local news departments to put the words "you" or "your" in every promotion..."

The Weather Channel has perfected this bit of Barnum & Bailey. Listen to every TV personality on TWC--they all say "YOUR morning here in LA", "YOUR commute here in Philly", "OUR weekend here in Dallas".

Such phony "home-iness" that is. Maybe Edwards can step right into a lead role as a weather-reader at TWC.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...his now-famous "Two Americas" stump speech...

There are actually Three Americas. The rich, the poor, and the leftwing parasitic morons who buy Edward's ambulance-chasing crapola.

[Condor51]

Well Edwards is right about the 'Two Americas.

There's one for scum-sucking bottom-feeding lawyers..
Then there's the rest of us - aka, victims of lawyers.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If John Edwards cares about me, he will cut taxes so the economy will flourish.

If John Edwards cares about me, he will work to reform tort law so doctors can afford to stay in practice to treat me.

If John Edwards cares about me, he knows what time zone I live in . . .

[gonewt]

http://www.edwards04.com/

[Phantom Lord]

My daddy worked in a mill.

[chimera]

Edwards is just playing to the lowest level of Freud's structural model of personality. We all have that timeless, primitive Id that seeks only it's own satisfaction, to the exclusion of everything else. It is always there, hopefully held in reasonable check by the ego and superego, but all it takes is some pretty boy, slick-talking demagogue to rile it up. So by appealing to people on the basis of "I'll take care of you" (he really won't, in the end), the message Edwards sends to the Id is satisfactory in two ways. First, it gets something, a sense of security, that it is cared for. Second, it doesn't have to do any work on its own, so as far as the primitive instinct is concerned, we're getting something for nothing.

Those who are able to restrain their selfish longings by force of will and intellect will know that the real world presents a different picture. There are things that go beyond the Id, and so simply appealing to that leaves one unsatisfied. Will such thinking be enough to overcome the "get something for nothing" mentality? We can only hope, but the performance of the electorate in the last three elections (remember more people voted for Gore than Bush in 2000) makes me wonder.

[OneCitizen]

"John Edwards cares about me." Who in their right mind would believe that. I reminds me of a picture that was on the front page of the NY Times in '92, right before the NH primary: Bill Clinton looking deeply, pleadingly into the eyes of an old guy at a lunch counter. The only thing about that old guy that Bill Clinton cared about was his vote.

John Edwards' success is an indictment of Democratic primary voters. They are suckers for this stuff, every time.

[Constitution Day]

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