Posted on 05/24/2007 9:12:51 AM PDT by eartotheground
Robert Shrum, the veteran Democratic strategist who worked on John Edwards's 1998 Senate campaign in North Carolina, does not remember his onetime client very fondly.
In his new memoir, "No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner," Shrum recalls asking Edwards at the outset of that campaign, "What is your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay rights?"
"I'm not comfortable around those people," Edwards replied, according to Shrum. He writes that the candidate's wife, Elizabeth, told him: "John, you know that's wrong."
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While praising Edwards as a man of "many innate political gifts," Shrum says he hoped the senator wouldn't run for the White House in 2004: "I was coming to believe he wasn't ready; he was a Clinton who hadn't read the books."
When Shrum called to say he had decided to join the presidential campaign of another former client, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Edwards was angry. "I can't believe you would do this to me and my family. I will never, ever forget it, even on my deathbed," he quotes Edwards as saying.
Edwards Rejects 'War on Terror'
In a foreign policy address yesterday, Edwards rejected the phrase "war on terror" as a "bumper sticker" and promised to restore the United States' standing around the world if he is elected president.
Edwards, in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, called the Bush terrorism doctrine a "sledgehammer" that has created more terrorists than it has eliminated. Edwards did not address the fact that he used the phrase "war on terror" during the 2004 campaign.
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Agree. I think I read where Johnny Boy is polling better than Mrs. Bill Clinton in Iowa.
Or was that Florida?
I find it hard to believe he’s uneasy around gay people, given the amount of time he spends in hair salons.
LOL....excellent
We (conservatiives) should be thankful for the Schrums, Edwards, Hillarys and Kerry of this world: Americans will eventually sink them everytime.
Very likely that is true. The Clinton slime machine is notorious but very effective.
Hillary has had a free ride and Barack is the 'Magic Negro'. Based on sex and race either gets a pass from the media. IMO Hillary would have been stomped flat by now if she was a he and there is no way a new Senator like Barack would be taken seriously if he was not a minority.
As opposed to John Kerry, who is not comfortable around any people.....
Former Aide Takes Shots at Edwards ,
Darn! I was hopun’ there was a gun involved!
Bob Shrum is the champion ‘Cooler’ of Presidential Campaigns.
Edwards feeling pretty —The only political ad that the GOP needs if this twerp gets nominated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3Q&mode=related&search=
Boy, when you are dumped on by Bob Shrum, you are DUMPED ON! Couldn’t happen to a nice guy.
“I can’t believe you would do this to me and my family. I will never, ever forget it, even on my deathbed,” he quotes Edwards as saying.”
Ha ha! I can picture him stamping his foot on the floor, in a fit of pique.
Drama queen.
Of course Edwards is uncomfortable around gay people.
He is terrified that someone else will be gayer than him.
Drama Queen...
LOL, GMTA!!!
((blush))
I am humbled to have my mind compared to the great Doctor Raoul’s. I think this is just a “too flipping obvious”.
But you said it first...
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