Posted on 07/07/2004 2:45:46 PM PDT by Jenya
If Wade wasn't experienced enough to handle his jeep when a hard gust of wind hit it, his parents shouldn't have allowed him to drive it.
Personally, I have a problem with "pain and suffering" awards. The courts put a price tag on human life....someone get's a million bucks for the loss of their loved one; someone else with a slicker lawyer and a deeper pocket gets $23 million; in another case, the value of life is dirt cheap (just look at abortion). Where's the justice in any of this?
I can't accept that as a cause for the crash. First, if their is anything to the wind aspect, it's because the Jeep's front suspension was out of alignment. Second the boy didn't know how to drive. Edwards didn't bother to note his sons lack of driving skills, but he still gave him the Jeep and apparently didn't bother with making sure it was roadworthy.
" John Edwards became a millionaire by cashing in on other people's accidents. None of those doctors meant for a baby to be born with problems. It happens sometimes. It is very sad. But John Edwards is part of a large and powerful group who want to make people pay damages, even when it was an accident."
That's right. He notes and cashes in on the tragedy's of others, then fails within his own sphere. He still wants to be king, because he knows better of course.
LOL
That would be a real change in the looks of 'wives in the White House.
Mrs Edwards - the frumpy dowager and Mrs sKerry who always looks like an unmade bed!!
Forgive me expressing my personal opinion. I usually never comment on someone's looks - or lack thereof.
In this case - they are very wealthy women and know that their husband's are dying to be President.
I would think that the least they could do would be to look the part since they are willingly going along with the program.
Yeah, I noticed the rouge (or is it "ruse"?) yesterday. What a freak. If this guy wins, we are through as a nation!
Absolutely.
We're finished.
His SCOTUS will see to that.
The NY Post story I excerpted above mentioned the Cherokee "drifting" into the median (it was an SUV, after all, so it had a mind of its own) and flipping on a gusty day. My guess is careless driving, not the wind, was the main factor in the crash.
Did the friend live?
That house says it all! You can see the guy is in mourning over that poor little girl.
Al Gore's sister, the Wellstone funerally, and now Edwards' son come to mind but they're all on the same side. I may have easily missed one along the way but I can't recall a Republican doing anything similar. Can you cite an example?
Get a grip. Or at least contact Tipper Gore for some anti-depressants. She's telling her surviving children that they don't amount to jack in terms of happiness in their family?!!! What kind of dysfunctional monster is this woman?! I don't discount that losing a child creates a hole that can never completely be filled. But she's being melodramatic to the level of sickness here.
Both parties? I am trying to think of a Republican doing it. The only family I know of that suffered that kind of loss was the Bushes with Robin. Yes, we know about it--but only reluctantly from the family. The media reported it because it is a matter of record. My observation is the Bush family has made modest comment on the issue and declined to elaborate. Barbara did say she felt George W. felt he had to console her and she didn't want him to feel burdened with assuaging her grief so she insisted he go about his business as a kid doing kid things, and that's about all I know. Oh, and George the elder and Barbara have their final resting places set aside at the presidential library and Barbara did say Robin is there. All this in response to specific questions--not a subject that I have ever seen them broach themselves, and not one I have ever seen them dwell on or exploit.
"The kind of carefree happiness we had before is forever gone from our lives,"
"We will never have that feeling again."
"We asked ourselves, 'How in the world are we ever going to get joy back into our lives again,' "
Not claiming any authority on this, but those statements just don't seem right to me. They fly in the face of claims of "living your life for your child."
Did they son want them to be joyless? According to them, if I have a good time now that Drew is dead, is something wrong with ME?
Is the only way to get joy back in your life to have MORE children?
I just remembered I saw her on TV yesterday, talking about this very thing, saying that people come up to her all the time talking about "being a member of the same club," or something like that.
IMO -- and I'm certainly not smart enough to know -- but something is not right with these statements. If they really DO still feel that way after 8 years, they need psychological help.
In the future can you get a photo of the beach side of Edwards' house?
I think their attitude is called "passive-aggressive."
Just so you'll know, it's on a point on a private island, overlooking Wrightsville Beach, the Atlantic Ocean, the sound and the Intercoastal Waterway.
Just one of the regular people.
Yes...how do the other children feel? The poor youngest son, being "middle-named" after his older brother's Latin class name?
I can only imagine the profound grief a parent would feel at losing a child, but I also thought there's some interesting psychology at work in the Edwards family...
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