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Edwards' courtroom success feeds our health-care woes
HeraldNet.com ^ | 7/11/04 | Mona Charen

Posted on 07/14/2004 6:40:00 PM PDT by South40

Well, they got the hair part right. "We think this is a dream team," Sen. John Kerry announced at his first joint appearance with John Edwards. "We've got a better vision, real plans, better ideas. We've got a better sense of what's happening in America - and we've got better hair."

In the days before Kerry named his choice for the second spot on the ticket, commentators were saying that the importance of the event was not so much whether the vice presidential pick could carry a state, far less a region, but what the choice revealed about the decision-maker. This was immediately forgotten in the bubbly aftermath, when everyone seemed to be gushing about a "charisma infusion" to the ticket.

But let's not lose sight of the fact that John Edwards' charisma, such as it is, comes at the expense of substance. If Kerry wins, the man who stands a heartbeat away from the Oval Office will be a first-term senator who never held public office before 1999 and voted irregularly. But he has quite a smile.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: edwards; extortion; healthcare; tortreform

1 posted on 07/14/2004 6:40:01 PM PDT by South40
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To: South40

The kind of trial lawyers like Edwards, is the one and entire reason we have lost and are continuing to lose doctors, here in Florida. Our doctors even got together to protest, but to no avail.


2 posted on 07/14/2004 6:48:41 PM PDT by onyx eyes
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