Everyone knows that Welfare means more rat voters.
"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.
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.
...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!?!?
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
Yesterday's NYT editorial written by Paul Dufus Krugman also focused on "Poverty" and how England is doing so much better than the USA in that regard. Was Dregs Krugman setting the table for his buddy Edwards? It's an interesting coincidence, otherwise. I hope more Dims jump on that band wagon 'cause I think the poverty issue is headed towards the cliff. I just love it when the enemy is so completely out of touch with the electorate.
Yes, the ol' wealth-redistribution mantra...the poverty he's talkin' about will be those of us who will have our incomes appropriated "for the common good".
Using the simpleton method, one can look at the issue as since 10% of the population holds 90% of the wealth, then 90% don't and with their votes for giving the money to them, I can get elected!
"has there ever been a bigger execise in futility ?"
This crap just never stops! It's the same thing every time the Dems think they're in power. Poverty/Racism/Guns/The environment.......
Today's "poor" are middle-class by the standards of my youth. Almost all of them have color TV, most have a microwave oven, a majority have a car and air-conditioning, and many own their own homes.
Democrats are obsessed with the "gap" between the so-called poor and the so-called rich. It's the wrong question. The real question is how many people in America lack the necessities of life. Edwards doesn't want to face that answer.
Most of those in "poverty" as the Breck Girl defines it have more TVs, more cell phones/blackberries, nicer tennis shoes and more bling than I'll ever have.
The worst part is that lots of Americans will fall for this line of crap