Mark Steyn- The tearjerker (Profile: John Edwards)

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 07/11/04 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

[mrustow]

What, no Q flu? Thank you very much.

[mrustow]

"There are two Americas," said Conan O'Brien on CBS.

Oops! Even The Great Steyn makes the occasional boo-boo. Conan O'Brien is on NBC. Always has been.

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey! This article, as usual, contains observations so dead-on accurate that you wonder how Edwards is left standing. Maybe his poochy-poo is holding him up.

[stands2reason]

"Plaintiff's attorney" is American for the kind of lawyer who specialises in those suits that Britons find so fascinating - you spill the coffee on your lap, so you sue McDonald's for a gazillion dollars, etc.

I thought we called them ""trial lawyers."

[secret garden]

Thanks again for the ping!

[RobFromGa]

good Steyn, I see a landslide a comin' (or a witch riding in to the "rescue" at the last minute-- to make it closer)

[Fintan]

'We've got better vision. We've got better ideas. We've got real plans. And we've got better hair," said John Kerry...

Yeah, but we've got Jenna...

 

 

[LisaMalia]

Yet another homerun by Steyn. Great piece, thanks for posting.

[driftless]

I'm forever amazed at the gall of Democrats. If every American weighed three hundred pounds, lived in a mansion, and had five Cadillacs, they'd still be pitching the class-warfare shtick. Dems don't get it, the problem with Americans is not lack of food, but too much food and not enough exercise. They should look at selling the rich-have-all-the-exercise-equipment-and-the-poor-have-none routine to the American public rather than the shopworn tale about the miserable, hungry poor (about 97% of Americans according to Dems).

Remember Bill Bradley in 2000? He tried to spin that one about the girl in school who was so hungry she couldn't concentrate on her schoolwork, and when the teacher asked her why she was hungry, the girl replied that it wasn't her turn to eat that day. That one's as old as the great Depression, but the Dems never get tired of telling the same old lies.

[GOPJ]

Great stuff bump:

"two Americas" stump speech, a Disraelian portrait of Dickensian gloom conjured in the tones of a Depression-era sob-sister.

[traumer]

"'We've got better vision. We've got better ideas. We've got real plans... !"

[AndyJackson]

You would have to have a heart of stone not to be weeping with laughter at that line.

You don't hear them coming before they hit you right between the eyes. Who thinks this stuff up? It cannot possibly be Steyn writing this stuff. No one can be that smart. There must be some other genius using Steyn as his pen name. I know - Al Gore. What are the odds of two geniuses like that in the same age. Nil I tell you. Al Gore is behind this. Look, it all adds up. Al leaves office and the next thing you know we have this so called Steyn fellow writing this stuff.

[nothingnew]

Steyn.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Gritty]

BTTT

[mrustow]

You would have to have a heart of stone not to be weeping with laughter at that line.

Classic Steyn, caught me like a suckerpunch. But I wouldn't assume landslide -- that's a good way to lose. Besides, I think Edwards is going to help Kerry. A lot of people listen to that nonsense, and Steyn is right to suggest that it's directed at soccer moms, who seem to be holding every national election hostage (or at least the candidates act as if they did).

[nothingnew]

Steyn

FMCDH(BITS)

[netmilsmom]

>>Edwards's shivering 10-year-old can get a brand-new quilted winter coat for $9.99 at JC Penney, or secondhand for three bucks at my local thrift shop - at least until Edwards and Kerry crack down on the cheap textile imports they've been attacking these past two years.<<

Or the Salvation Army provides one free at Christmas.

[BibChr]

Another good one.