Posted on 08/12/2008 12:11:46 PM PDT by pollwatcher
CURSE YOU, FRED BARON!
He did not carry Mayberry in either senatorial contest he entered.
If I am not mistaken, John Edwards never carried his hometown in any election.
Quite a comment on the mark the man left...
John Edwards is a perfect example of “white trash”.
Yes, Edwards is white trash AND a lawyer — a two-fer!
I worked with lawyers for years — corporate and private practice. Almost without exception they are just about the worst excuses for human beings I can imagine. Most, that I met, have huge egos and low moral standards. Yes, there are a few exceptions, I won’t deny that. But for the most part.........whoa! Very bad news all the way around.
Let’s see: both Clintons are lawyers, Obama is a lawyer, Edwards is a lawyer, on and on and on. McCain is......oh, NOT a lawyer! I knew there was a good reason to vote for him despite the fact that I don’t always agree with him.
Go McCain 2008!
"Baron, the former president of the American Trial Lawyers Association, made his name as a plaintiffs lawyer, largely representing victims of asbestos exposure and other alleged toxins. He left Baron & Budd in 2002. Budd took a ton of heat for a memorandum that in 1997 was mistakenly handed over to opposing counsel. According to this story from 2001 in the Dallas Observer, the 20-page memo instructed these mostly elderly workers never to testify that they saw warning labels on asbestos packages or knew it was dangerous and gave firm directions on how to testify about their exposure to asbestos products in ways to make their cases better. Budd claimed the memo was the handiwork of a rogue paralegal."
I'd elaborate on that and call him a formerly poor white trash, recently rich white trash with more crackers in his family than Keeblers ever made.
It should give all great comfort that this represents the zenith of the American Bar Association. This defines them and their characater. John fell in with a good crowd.
He couldn’t carry Raleigh?
Notice that Edwards made every qualification about her EXCEPT fidelity. It's like Michael Jackson saying he'd never (in his mind) "hurt" a child. Or how Janet Reno saying she has "affection" for men.
Edwards spews so much BS that we could stop importing oil and convert to methane.
No. Seneca, SC -- the town where he was born and raised.
Never carried it as a VP-candidate. Nor as a primary candidate.
Next thing you'll be telling me is Hillary isn't really from Arkansas.
Sure he did. Three times.
As the VP nominee in 2004 general election. And in the South Carolina Democratic Presidential primaries in 2004 and 2008.
I forgot about that. Sorry.
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