Posted on 07/28/2008 4:56:32 AM PDT by pissant
I think Mickey Kaus is correct about this. Under normal circumstances, John Edwards would have a prominent role in the Democratic convention in Denver — remember the adoring, break-into-the-news coverage of Edwards' decision to endorse Obama? But these are not normal circumstances for Edwards. I think most people in the media believe the National Enquirer story about him is accurate, even as they have adopted a this-is-not-happening editorial policy. But the policy would be harder to maintain were Edwards to take a high-profile role at the convention.
It is impossible to imagine that the Obama campaign would want Edwards to appear from the podium with everyone whispering "mistress-love-child" as he spoke. So it would be better to just get it over with and have some pro-Democratic journalist at a big-media outlet recognize that the story exists. Perhaps it could be done in the context of an aggressive-tabloids-bedevil-public-figures thumbsucker or some other story designed to give the scandal a soft landing. But get it out there, so there won't be some strange thing-that-cannot-be-spoken mystery if he doesn't show up at the Democratic convention.
Barack Obama, for example, is a multimillionaire, lives in a multimillion dollar house, and has an income in excess of $500,000 a year. Yet millions of morons haven't figured out that he's got something very different in mind for them--though he has every intention of increasig his own great riches.
If his wife has her way, somebody else will pay for her Harvard and Princeton education.
As John Wayne said: "Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid." The morons who support these Democrat snake-oil salesmen prove the point--time after time after time.
It's never occurred to this ANGRY nitwit to be grateful for the abundance that life has showered upon her so bountifully.
Oh, thanks for bringing that image back to my memory.
Yes. That was when he was playing his populist role as a common “man of the people.” The fact is that his father made a decent living and had other jobs that placed him in the solid middle class. Like everything else, Edwards engaged in political opportunism to turn the truth into a self-serving lie. When he ran for Vice President under Kerry he didn’t even carry his home state of North Carolina. That’s also why he didn’t run for reelection to the Senate there in ‘06. They knew him!
BTTT
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