Edwards & The Arrogance of the Entitled

RealClearPolitics ^ | 4/20/07 | Richard Reeves

[AmericanExceptionalist]

NEW YORK -- Three weeks after I wrote that I thought John Edwards might be going someplace in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, I found out where he was heading: to the barber shop.

The candidate, who has been looking pretty and pretty impressive in defining "Two Americas" -- one for the rich and privileged, a lesser place for everyone else -- came up with a wonderful device to show us all what he meant. His campaign spending reports, required by the Federal Election Commission, revealed that he has been paying $400 for haircuts by a Beverly Hills cutter named Joseph Torrenueva. The guy must be good, because Edwards' hair sure looks good. So does the rest of him, helped along by a $250 shaping at the Designworks Salon in Dubuque, Iowa, and $225 at the Pink Sapphire spa in Manchester, N.H.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

I thought this criticism of Edwards' $400 haircuts was especially effective, comong, as it does, from a left-leaning journalist such as Richard Reeves. (Rather predictably, he got in a shot or two at the neoconservative Paul Wolfowitz. Even so, this column makes for a very good read, I think.)

[vlad335]

Behold the Hillary attack machine.

[REDWOOD99]

Obama’s next.

[wodinoneeye]

Come to think if it, How much do Hillary’s baths in children’s blood cost her campaign???

That cant be cheap.

[justiceseeker93]

Just wondering whether that Beverly Hills barber that Edwards used is the same guy that Bubba called to Air Force One a few years ago at LAX. Clinton’s on-board haircut there caused all the airport traffic to be delayed about an hour, IIRC. Arrogance of the entitled - precisely!

[Joe Boucher]

Go on to utube and watch him preening for his Hair stylist getting him ready for an appearance to the tune of I Feel Pretty.
Absolutely hilarious, like a 13 year old girl.

[Dustoff45]

You must mean this “I feel pretty video”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3Q

[Sybeck1]

HRC uses a Flowbee, of course!

[Fred Hayek]

In 1985 I had a neighbor who had a high opinion of Daniel Ortega, the Marxist running Nicaragua at the time. Ortega had made a trip to the UN, and went on a shopping trip where he got some $4000 designer eyeglasses. I pointed this inconvient little fact to my neighbor, who thought Ortega was the “man of the common people”. Typical liberal.