Posted on 05/30/2007 3:53:09 PM PDT by Baladas
He was comfortable after his conversations with Gephardt, but even queasier about Edwards after they met. Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he'd never told anyone else—that after his son Wade had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he'd do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade's ideals of service. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the same exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before—and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else. .
On the day the Edwards pick was made public, Edwards and I talked for the first time since I had informed him of our decision to work for Kerry and he had reacted angrily. He said he knew I'd helped get him on the ticket and he was grateful. I told him that I welcomed the possibility that we might be friends again, but that wasn't the reason for my preference. I believed it was the right move for Kerry. Kerry's relationship with Edwards would sour after the election—and mine would simply fade away. When Elizabeth discovered she had breast cancer, John and Teresa reached out to help the Edwardses find the best doctors they could. Marylouise and I called—but afterward, never heard from John again. Maybe we shouldn't have expected to. Kerry told me that the Edwardses simply stopped returning calls or talking to him and Teresa. Within months, Edwards started preparing for a bid in 2008. Kerry said that he wished he'd never picked Edwards, that he should have gone with his gut.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Who is that man behind the curtain? Why, it’s not a man at all. It’s Hillary.
“Think Hillary..........”
And we have a winner!
Just keeping the option open. The Nobel peace Prize is announced in September or October, and Algore is the odds-on favorite. Especially if we have a long hot dry summer, he will be cresting just in time and his globaloney hobby horse will be prancing down Main Street at the head of the parade.
Meanwhile, everyone will be tired of the Breck girl's schtick, and the tedious cawing of the hillarybird who should take my advice and get a speech coach--her chances depend on it. Barak will be fighting to stay alive with an inflated ego and an empty suit to hold it, unencumbered by any meaningful ideas to offer. The rest of the dwarfs will be hanging around sucking up to the leaders for the Veep nod.
Al Gore--TIME's Man of the Year!
Where can you get Prada shoes for $300.00??????
What makes it even sicker is that both times (there may be more) he said it was like an intimate secret that he'd Never told anyone. That part is patent BS-- the sort of thing a twisted adolescent or borderline personality does to manipulate people. Odds are it never happened, but he calculates that the story will impress people with his depth. This isn't grief, this is pathology.
This is truly funny stuff!! One lying POS dissing another lying POS. Let both burn in hell. These are dredges of humanity, not of “society”. Both deserve to be denied the publicity they so seek.
Doesn’t surprise me. Remember how Edwards made his money before the hedge funds and $50,000 speeches about poverty? He was manipulating juries by telling them about his dead son in order to get sympathy. The guy is everything that’s wrong with the profession of law.
The greatest “hair Act” since the Three Stooges.
Edwards was just researching what it was like to be poor...and dead.
A) Shrum needs a job
B) Shrum needs to revise his record of losing
C) Obama is losing momentum
D) Hillary strike again
E) All of the above
Pick’em.
Good memory!
I’m dubious about this story. For one thing, I’ve heard it before or rather I read it in a book before this alleged conversation took place. Walter Shapiro wrote a campaign book that came out in late 2005 One Car Caravan (if I remember the title correctly). He quotes former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey with Edwards telling him (Kerrey) this very story (without the “first time” language) after Kerrey warned Edwards that if ran for the ‘98 Senate race, it would get rough.
Now here’s the thing, why would Edwards tell John Kerry a story “for the first time”, that they both knew (politicians are too vain not read a book where they are central characters) was in a book that had come out 6 months before?
Either Kerry is lying or Shrum is (hell, maybe they both are). Frankly, I think John Edwards is a better man than either. Kerry has disliked Edwards since 2000, when Gore’s final three list for VP was Lieberman, Kerry and Edwards (after less than 2 years in the Senate). Kerry couldn’t believed that a Senate freshman was put in the same class as the great John Kerry.
As for Shrum, what kind of advisor takes a client’s money and then later trashes him in print (especially things told him in confidence?). If a lawyer acted liked that, he’d be disbarred.
You are right about Edwards’ hair.
A lot of funny stuff in here:
1. Edwards with zero convictions - votes for Iraq War after asking everyone else what they think.
2. Richardson womanizing
3. Kerry regretting picking Edwards
4. Edwards recounting the same story for the “fist time”\
I love the smell of Democrats eating their own.
IMO, Hillary has this thing wrapped up. Why would you think Time doesent support her first?
I’m not going to speculate on Shrum’s story but he’s going to have to live with it and Edwards will have to confront him on it if it’s not true. I doubt we’ll see that.
Edwards is not the good man you wish him to be. First, he made his money as an ambulance chasing lawyer and destroying the practice of medicine for people in his locality by taking an case and turning it into a feel good circus.
He’s quickly grasped that the far left wing controls a large segment of the Rat party and will play a large role in the nominating process so he has thrown any decency overboard to pander to that element.
How you see that good for the country would escape me. I wouldn’t put Edwards above Kerry or Shrum. In fact, it’s just different levels of the same cesspool but perhaps that’s too graphic.
Edwards is dangerous because he knows less than you think, he’s too ambitious for the good of anyone especially the country and he’s in bed with the worst elements in the country: the evil left.
I see him as more dangerous than any of the others because he can lie better to further the leftist agenda. What Edwards did on Memorial Day is detestable.
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Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he'd never told anyone else—that after his son Wade had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he'd do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade's ideals of service. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the same exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before—and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else.
This is creepy.
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