Two Americas!Posted on 06/16/2007 11:44:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
John Edwards may be running for the White House as a populist concerned about "the other America," but that doesn't mean he has to sit in the cheap seats.
The ex-North Carolina senator attended Thursday night's NBA finals in Cleveland, watching from the courtside "Platinum Suites" VIP seats costing thousands of dollars.
"He should sue himself . . . for political malpractice," said Dan Ronayne, deputy communications director of the Republican National Committee.
Countered Edwards spokesman Eric Schultz: "Breaking news - a candidate from North Carolina likes basketball. Wait till they find out he had a hot dog."
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He’s rich...why should he be in the peanut gallery?
I agree with that 100%. He should get the the best seats he can buy.
Doesn't mean he's not a hypocritical SOB with his "Two Americas" theme though.
Heaven forbid he’d have to socialize with the peons. They might mess up his hair.
TWO AMERICAS: Those who buy into John Edward’s BS and those who don’t.
Edwards problem is he ain’t got enough ass in them britches but he has enough ass above the collar
He doesn’t have a snowball’s chance it hell anyway. Who supports him, the metrosexual majority?
John who? Was he there to watch King James lose?
Oh, well, when they were showing famous people in the crowd, I saw Eva Longoria, Usher, and a bunch of other people, but not John Edwards.
BTW, does anyone else think that Usher and former Spur (now plays for NO) Devin Brown look alike?
Go Spurs Go!
Most accurate line of the week.
We should all be thankful they didn't describe what she did with the hot dog....
Two Americas!I also agree that if someone is rich and can afford a luxurious life, it doesn’t bother me at all. That is, it doesn’t bother me in and of itself.
But it bothers me greatly when some candidate with millions in the bank runs around whining about how the traditional American system doesn’t work. That it has created “two Americas” where one group is rich and the other poor. Blah, blah, blah.
It bothers me even more when the candidate tries to pretend he’s an average guy by mentioning that his father was a mill worker at every campaign stop. He tells that story over and over about the time his family went to a restaurant, and after seeing the high prices on the menu, quietly got up and left because they couldn’t afford to eat there. Yet Edwards is now a multi-millionaire. If the “system” won’t allow upward mobility, how did that happen?
And it bothers me still more when the candidate in question gets $400 haircuts, lives in a lavish mansion worth millions, charges ridiculous sums for giving speeches at colleges (I believe he demanded $55,000), and sits in expensive VIP boxes at sporting events.
The response of the Democrat spokesman to Edwards’ critics is typical. Yes, he spent a fortune on special seating so he wouldn’t have to sit with the common folk, but he had a hot dog, the type of food commoners enjoy, so he really is just an average guy.
I really don’t know which type of rich Democrat is worse. There’s the Edwards kind who lives like a king and pretends to be a commoner. Then there’s the John Kerry kind who lives like a king and can’t bring himself to even pretend to be anything other than royalty due to his arrogance. Remember Kerry’s campaign stop at a Wendy’s where he clearly didn’t recognize the menu items since he’d never been in one before?
It’s a plague on both louses!
“He should get the the best seats he can buy.”
Providing he bought the seats.
Follow the money.
As it was in the beginning, so should it be in the
present. Those who hold public office (and their
support teams) should be unpaid “volunteers”.
There. Fixed everything.
Shows that if one gets good grades and goes to the right school one can become a lawyer and end up on top of the heap mocking those who didn’t read the books they wrote book reports about.
Schultz has a point. This is much ado about nothing. Dan Ronayne ought to choose his battles a little more wisely. Something with a little bit more substance than this.
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