Everyone knows that Welfare means more rat voters.
Posted on 12/28/2006 10:51:11 AM PST by kingattax
Amid Iraq Talk, White House Hopeful Sticks to '04 Issue in '08 Run
For the roughly two dozen candidates considering a run for the White House, it is perhaps the jackpot question: What might be the winning message in a contest whose first nominating vote is still more than a year away?
Today, former Sen. John Edwards begins testing his hunch that Americans, though focused now on the war in Iraq, can be won over to a campaign built on what he calls "the great moral issue of our time" -- fighting poverty at home. He plans to do so with an unorthodox announcement of his candidacy, not standing on a flag-draped stage, but volunteering his labor in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward, which is still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina.
The North Carolina Democrat's theme of ending the "Two Americas" of haves and have-nots dates to his 2004 presidential bid. Mr. Edwards didn't win his party's nomination then, but his strong reception among voters helped him to secure a place as Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's running mate. Mr. Edwards argues that the disparity between the richest Americans and the working class has widened since then.
"When I talked about poverty in the 2004 campaign, political types said it was futile," he said in a speech this year. "They said nobody cares about poverty except for the poor. Not true, and we saw it with Katrina."
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"The Brady Bunch 35th Anniversary Reunion Special" comes to mind.
And his theme song:
Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming,
flaxen, waxen
The War on Poverty is a 33 year old quagmire we need to find a way out of.
Everyone knows that Welfare means more rat voters.
Is he LBJ reincarnated? Fool.
How can Edwards claim this poverty theme with a straight face? Americans have never been wealthier and more people own their own homes than ever before in our nation's history.
One of the most popular gifts this year were large screen HDTV's. As someone once said in India: "I want to live in America where even the poor are fat."
The only poverty in America is in the profession of Philosophy. America has 300 million truck drivers and one philosopher, and the philosopher died three years ago. The Candidate from Hair should propose to fund some national philosophy projects.
"The War on Poverty is a 33 year old quagmire we need to find a way out of."
Hell that's easy. Send ALL the illegals home. Plenty of jobs and no more poverty. Not that there is much real poverty here any way.
...and as the DOW creeps up toward 15,000.
Isn't there already another thread regarding the relationship of Boobs and Brains in the democrat party!?!?
Alternate:
Gimme a lawyer with oil
Slippery, slithery oil
Slickery shiny
lawyerly greasy
Always fleecin'
OIL, SNAKE OIL!!!!
Ah see fo' Americas.
One mired in crushin' poverty
Another, doing OK but need mah help
One mo' whose takin' 'vantage of the poor huddlin'
masses, and yet another livin' off the snake oil of the land,
with billions and gazillions, Oh. Tha's me. Ah wuz peepin' in a mirror.
If you been taken 'vantage of, call the Law Office's of
John Edwards, Attorn, er. I mean the Candidate who Pimps fo' YOU!!!
Is that hair that he's sporting using up all the oxygen in his brain?
Just another Demo without a clue.
Miliions, and millions, and millions and millions of Americans go hungry every day! /sarc
Maybe he'd get more votes if he really did something about obesity and excesses in this country -- especially frivolous lawsuits.
Maybe his friends at the local newspaper can give him better suggestions for photo ops.
LBJ already thought of the Great Society he was going to manifest. Maybe he can create the SuperInternet -- although I hear Al Gore is busy in his garage on the project.
What will these Democrats (with the generous help of the liberal press) think up next?
What is the message here? All poor people should become shyster lawyers, so they can earn the big bucks? Don't we have too many shyster lawyers already?
Edwards is an empty suit, who had his ethics surgically removed at birth. No sane political party would ever choose such a non-entity as a Presidential nominee. Not even the Democrats. Still, this miserable excuse for a grown-up might become their Veep nominee. (But if they do that on the assumption that he'll help carry the South, they are sadly mistaken. He'll cost them north Carolina for starters. We KNOW this clown.)
Congressman Billybob
Excellent themes, there Gideon Reader. You should offer your services to Breck Girl. Don't let the Little Miss cheat you, though. In fact, demand CASH UP FRONT!
Edwards is an empty suit, who had his ethics surgically removed at birth.And then went on to sue the doctor for malpractise for not getting them all. (It was, of course, a lie. The operation had been a 100% success. But what good moral vacuity if you can't use it against the person who gave it to you in the first place!)
Time for that anti-poverty surge. (:^*)
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