"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful!"
Posted on 08/16/2007 9:47:56 PM PDT by SmithL
ELIZABETH EDWARDS complained to the Progressive magazine that anti-war critics such as Sen. Barack Obama are "behaving in a holier-than-thou" manner on Iraq. Too bad for Edwards that Obama opposed the war in Iraq in 2002, while her husband then-Sen. John Edwards - as well as Sens. Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd - voted for the Iraq war resolution.
Holier-than-thou anti-war Democrats. Isn't that phrase redundant?
Elizabeth Edwards now is more than John Edwards' wife. She has become his Spiro Agnew. Remember Agnew, President Richard M. Nixon's first vice president and designated hatchet man, known famously for dismissing critics as "nattering nabobs of negativism."
Mrs. E isn't quite as lyrical as Agnew. Recently, she told Salon.com that Hillary Clinton seemed to feel the need "to behave as a man and not talk about women's issues." Not much alliteration in that slam.
Worse, last month, Elizabeth Edwards complained, "We can't make John black, we can't make him a woman. Those things get you a lot of press, worth a certain amount of fundraising dollars."
That's right: All Edwards has is a wife with cancer. As fiercely as the couple tries to play that victim card, Edwards remains in third place in the polls. His RealClearPolitics poll average of 12 percent lags far behind Clinton's 40 percent and Obama's 21 percent.
Elizabeth Edwards also accused Obama of "lifting her husband's best lines" from 2004, "which is maybe not surprising since one of his speechwriters was one of our speechwriters, his media guy was our media guy." She complained that Obama is using John Edwards' rhetoric - turning "hope is on the way" to "the audacity of hope" - which I guess is wrong because Edwards apparently now owns the word "hope."
Every time an Edwards opens his or her trap,...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
She sees his campaign failing and she’s doing all she can to help. Hopeless, of course, but for her it’s a labor of love. Probably her efforts take her mind off cancer and whatever treatments she’s taking, and that’s good. The media knows what she’s doing and why. They also know the outcome, so they might ‘cut her some slack’...(as Fred would say).
(and worth every penny)
“...Your wife dies, you collect the insurance on top of that.
You don’t win. Big deal. You’ve got tons of cash, you are young and ‘pretty’, and so you now play the rich widower that was almost President.
Money for nothing and your chicks for free...”
Bingo!
I’m an engineer - I make things that other people can use.
Edwards is a lawyer. He has other peoples money.
Sorry I didn’t see it ................ FRegards
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