[Yardstick]

Steyn's deconstruction of Edwards' tale about his dad and the restaurant is great. I think he may have caught him in a fib.

[Political Junkie Too]

It's reminiscent of the Clinton story of taking strolls through Harlem during his layovers to/from Oxford.

-PJ

[okie01]

Robbins was a town of just over 1,000 people, so presumably it was, if not the only restaurant, one of only two or three. In small towns, folks generally know what the local eateries charge. And, while the Edwards family was poor by comparison with John Kerry, dad was in fact the mill's production manager (though the son tends to leave that bit out). So, in a mill town, at a restaurant presumably priced to cater for mill workers, the management of the mill couldn't afford to eat?

John Edwards' dad, like Dick Gephart's dad, seems to have been a better provider than we're led to believe. I wonder if the elder Edwards was a Republican, too, like Dad Gephart -- the milkman who hated his union.

[Ann Archy]

Are Edwards parents still alive??? If so, I wonder if they are embarrassed to be painted as losers.

[iconoclast]

I think he may have caught him in a fib.

Hard to get excited about that. Never seemed to do much harm to Clintoon or algore.