Edwards explains measured response to TV attack ads(Get ready to puke)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 08/27/2004 | Jo Mannies

[Graybeard58]

Sen. John Edwards - and his largely loyalist audience in St. Charles - displayed an edgier side Friday as each shared mutual concerns about the direction of the nation and the Democratic presidential campaign.

Edwards, the Democratic nominee for vice president, started things off when he launched into a self-described imitation of President George W. Bush's reaction to new census figures this week showing more Americans in poverty and without health insurance. Maintaining his ever-present smile, Edwards stood stone-still in silence.

[Graybeard58]

Tax and spend, tax and spend.

[jennyjenny]

The dems would be in a lot less trouble in the polls if they did exactly that....stand there and say nothing.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"The problem is," Edwards declared,

"... that these rat b@stards have a decided advantage over us, in that they actually get to tell the truth. G-D, how I envy them the luxury of that...!" :)

[inkling]

If Edwards sat in silence for 40 minutes, he would hve been imitating Kerry on 9-11.

[BIGZ]

Shakespeare was right.

What they and the Liberal Media, pardon the caps, do not tell you is that the poverty figures are lower than, except for one year, all the years the Slickmiester was in office.

[babaloo]

Talk about disappearing from the limelight. The campaign has sent him to the hinterlands to conduct front porch visits.

[NonValueAdded]

Didn't Hedgecock point out on the Rush Limbaugh show that rich people like Teh-RAY-za would count as uninsured in that figure? Isn't it also true that if Teh-RAY-za didn't claim "salary" from her foundations (how can we know until we see the returns) that she too would qualify as being below the pvoerty line given the current method of counting?

[Semper Paratus]

The campaign has sent him to the hinterlands to conduct front porch visits.

And he's getting awfully sick of drinking lemonade every day.

[atomicpossum]

To give you an idea of Edwards' low profile, I live in St. Louis, a few miles from the airport (usually highways are shut down in my area while the VIPs pass, and such visits are always mentioned on KMOX (Limbaugh) Radio), and I heard nothing of Edwards even being here. He's a dud in a floundering campaign.

[Graybeard58]

I live in central Illinois but was in your neighborhood a week ago Fri. night. I went to a friends b/day party at the VFW in Overland - big parking lot full of vehicles with "Veterans For Bush" bumper stickers.

I don't think Missouri will even be close.

[Al Simmons]

I believe that Edwards - an empty trial liar thief suit - has been a major disappointment to Kerry. He's dropped of the radar - except for that EXCELLENT LEAD-IN for the first SwiftBoatVets AD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *LOL*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I live in St. Louis, a few miles from the airport

Hey! So did I, in the early '90s! Small world! :)

[SCALEMAN]

I'm from Stl also, and I didn't see anything about this visit. Strange isn't it.

[Mamzelle]

Cheesy gimmick from a gimcrack shyster--All the world's a hand-selected jurybox...

[KeyLargo]

Swift Boats and the Lessons of Dukakis
By ROBIN TONER

Published: August 29, 2004

ASHINGTON — This is not the first time Senator John Kerry's advisers have heard the guns of August.

Sixteen years ago, several of them were working for Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic nominee, who began the month with a substantial lead in the polls, only to see it disappear under a steady onslaught from the campaign of Vice President Bush,....

Snip - ...The rough lessons of 1988 took hold: Respond, hit back, leave no charge unanswered. Another lesson, which often gets lost, is that the way a campaign is conducted makes a difference. The senior Mr. Bush took office in January 1989 and immediately tried to strike a bipartisan, conciliatory tone. But the Democratic bitterness endured, and made the task of governing all the harder."

Go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/weekinreview/29tone.html

[DustyMoment]

. . . Bush's reaction to new census figures this week showing more Americans in poverty and without health insurance.

The poverty figures are bunk and the Dems know it. They were started in the 60s by Lyndon Johnson and have yet to be updated. As Neal Boortz has pointed out, most Europeans and others "living in poverty" around the world would love to live in poverty in America - their entire standard of living would be elevated.

In no other nation on earth does "living in poverty" still include a car, microwave, big screen TV, cell phone and cable.

Meanwhile, Dems think that universal healthcare is their new, big tax and spend issue. They don't understand that we bought that malarkey in the 60s with Medicare and won't buy it again. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice . . . I'm still waiting for someone - ANYONE - to show me where healthcare is a right as described by the Constitution.





Go on, keep looking. I'll wait!

[genghis]

until qerry can answer the swifties, nobody is listening to anything they say.
It is just hilarious to watch them ignore the elephant i the room.

[SaveTheChief]

Edwards, the Democratic nominee for vice president, started things off when he launched into a self-described imitation of President George W. Bush's reaction to new census figures this week showing more Americans in poverty and without health insurance

Would illegal immigration have anything to do with this?

I love the way Democrats conveniently leave out historical or otherwise relevant data in order to make their little attacks "factual".

This reminds me of the Kerry mantra of the past year about more Americans being out of work than the time of Herbert Hoover. What Kerry and the rest fail to tell you is that there weren't nearly as many Americans in the work force at the time.

They are trying to throw out any kind of flimsy attack in the hope that something sticks. Bush is starting to develop some of that "Teflon" that protected Reagan from unfounded attacks all those years ago.

Things are starting to look better for the President. Just a couple more months to go...

[Michael.SF.]

Edwards said. "We don't want to get down in the gutter with these guys."

And if you did, it would be a step up for you.

[wny]

There was a good Kedwards joke. I think I saw it on NRO, Nordlinger's column:

On a campaign tour, Kerry and Edwards stop at McDonalds for lunch. The Kerry spills hot coffee all over hiumself and Edwards. The next day Edwards sues McDonalds and Kerry applies for his fourth purple heart.