John Edwards: Party Pooper-in-Chief
Coming in second in the Iowa Democratic caucus, Senator John Edwards gave the worst “victory” speech EVER. In the first 2 or 3 minutes of the speech Edwards mentioned a child dying after not receiving a liver transplant, another death, his poor mother, starving parents and children that were turned away from an Iowa soup kitchen, and a woman who died from breast cancer. Edwards paints a dismal picture for a country where over 80% of people are ”satisfied” with their personal lives with a large majority saying they are “very satisfied.”
Some other random thoughts from the Fox News coverage:
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I’m getting a kick out of seeing Senator Hillary Clinton giving her speech behind a podium that reads “Ready for Change” with Madeleine Albright on one side and Bill Clinton on the other. I’d use the term “threesome” to describe them, but that would bring the porn industry to a screeching halt.
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I think Chuck Norris’s wife wins the prize for the hottest chick on the campaign trail.
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Huckabee and McCain are practically having phone sex over one another’s unexpected success.
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Huckabee said, “If this were a marathon, we’ve only run half of it.” Um, I think there are 49 other states that will disagree with him. Forty-nine should be an easy number to remember — it’s generally where Arkansas places for its educational excellence among the other states. President Bush may have had problems with foreign leaders’ names, but Huckabee has problems with fractions.
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You have to be an idiot in order to be accepted for a focus group. Frank Luntz talked to a couple of Huckabee voters and they all gave the most ridiculous reasons for why they voted for him. One said “because he’s me.” Another said she was sick of people “buying” elections. In different ways both are votes out of spite, not based on what’s best for themselves or for the country. Both have clearly bought into Huckabee’s “Let’s win one for the little guy” mentality. No, let’s win one for the best candidate. The “little guy” identity politics is just as ridiculous as voting for Obama or Clinton simply because it’s time we had a black or a woman in the White House.
