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After frantically searching for a campaign theme that will make it possible for him to become the next Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, Former Senator John Edwards has seemed to find one… Savior of the poor. Excuse me while I burst out laughing. Look up the word, “shameless” in Webster’s Dictionary and you will see a neatly trimmed picture of Snidely Whiplash (sans mustache) with a $400.00 haircut sneering at the American voting public. The caption accompanying it reads, “The New and Improved Bobby Kennedy!” I have one question for Mr. Edwards: Do you really believe we are all...

Edwards uses wife's illness for campaign phishing By Michelle Malkin   ·   April 05, 2007 12:29 PM Bait and switch NYPost reports: "Democratic White House hopeful John Edwards' team has been collecting e-mail addresses from supporters who've sent his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, notes - and using them for fund-raising requests, aides acknowledged yesterday. The link on Edwards' campaign Web site invites people to "send a note to Elizabeth and John" and features a sad letter from the former senator penned just after the couple found out her breast cancer had spread and is now incurable. But people who've been sending such...

Voting irregularities were few in Minnesota this year -- until it really counted. Defeated Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry likely is going to get one less electoral vote nationally than he should have -- 251 instead of 252 -- because of an apparent mistake Monday by one of Minnesota's 10 DFL electors. One of the 10 handwritten ballots cast for president carried the name of vice presidential candidate John Edwards (actually spelled "Ewards" on the ballot) rather than Kerry. "I was shocked ... this will go in the history books," said Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer, who presided over a...