Posted on 07/06/2004 4:33:22 AM PDT by djf
NBC breaking says for sure it's Edwards for veep
Extreme nervousness will make your lips that dry. Also could be medications like antihistamines,or blood pressure medication. Sure looks gross almost as bad as Algore's flop sweat.
Sorry about that everyone. I didn't realize it was going to be that long when I posted it. Admin moderator please delete my post if it uses too much bandwith.
Thanks (though I'm not writing Hitlery out of the picture entirely until the Electoral College ballots are opened up in January).
Incredible that the GOP is right on the ball and the Kerry campaign (although they changed johnkerry.com haven't even forwarded their KerryEdwards links to the main site yet. Pathetic.
I think 30 to 40 % of the union vote voted for Bush. Reagan created a whole new term that's used to this day, Reagan democrats.
Elizabeth Dole on FoxNews calls Kerry's selection a bit of a flipflop. Kerry said Edwards was too inexperienced during the primary; now, Kerry is saying Edwards can step into the Presidency, if needed.
Leni
If you put it on a seperate thread, would you please ping me! You give great oppo :)
Is Edwards voting record about the same as Kerrys?
A successful trial lawyer can convince twelve people, randomly chosen, to wear winter coats when its 95 degrees out.
Don't be so cocky.
Nobody else would agree to run with him, I'll bet....
Markets opened up way down this morning.
As far as I know, Edwards had an incredibly liberal record, although that will be glossed over by the fact that Edwards voted for the war early on. I think Kerry voted against it, but I forget which came first, voting for it or against it.
Cheney will crush Edwards appear in a debate on Foreign Policy just as he did Lieberman, a semocrat with infinite more wisdom than John Edqwards , Ambulance Chaser ESQ.
My understanding is that Edward's wife doesn't like the limelight, partly for this reason.
But rising star seeks to separate family's tragedy from his career
Running for the U.S. Senate in 1998, John Edwards talked easily about his rural N.C. childhood and successful law career. But there was one pivotal event in his life he almost always avoided.
That was the death, two years earlier, of his 16-year-old son in a car accident.
For Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, the death of their son Wade remains an intensely private grief. The less public attention, the better.
Now, as Edwards' profile rises with the prospect of a 2004 presidential bid, he and his family - like political figures before - find themselves confronting their tragedy in public.
In July, Elle magazine touched on Wade Edwards' death in a profile of the senator. Last week a long piece in The Washington Post delved into the accident and its impact on him and his family.
Five years after his son's death, Edwards' personal and political lives have become the subject of national media interest. By all accounts, he and his wife have talked about Wade's death only after prodding by reporters.
"More people are asking about it," says spokesman Mike Briggs. "Reporters are paying closer attention to his life story, and that's a part of it."
"They talk about (Wade) because he remains an important part of his family," Briggs adds. "Where the senator draws the line is not talking about his son's accident in connection with his career, because he thinks people would take it in the wrong way."
Edwards, traveling in the Middle East when the Post article appeared, said it went too far. "I wouldn't choose to have that much of my personal life in the newspaper," he said.
But like other public figures, Edwards finds himself treading that fine line of modern American culture, the one that separates personal from public, private from political. Acknowledge a tragedy and open yourself to charges of exploiting it. Refuse and risk being seen as less than candid.
"It is absolutely, totally, a Catch-22," says Ted Kaufman, who teaches about Congress at Duke Law School.
Heh heh heh. The john analogies are gonna be great. Circling the bowl. The Tidy Bowl Men. The Toilet Ticket (with apologies to the Freeper who coined that and whose screen name I forgot!)
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