Edwards Mum on Future White House Run
I believe John Edwards is overrated... He's a media creation just like John McCain. I've never been impressed with Edwards.
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 9:10 AM
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I have to agree. Almost everyone I talk to, except rabid liberal Democrats, picks him out as a lying ambulance-chaser.
One fellow I know was going to vote for John Kerry until he picked Edwards as his running mate.
Yeah I know, it didn't make any sense to me either.
I'd like to pile on this one:
Laura Ingraham refers to him as "The Silky Pony"....prancing and concerned about his hair.
Medved refers to him as "The Breck Girl".
I sense he truly loves his wife and children, but I don't think there's much to him beneath the lovely veneer.
In 2000, at the last North Carolina Association of County Commissioners conferences I attended, Edwards was the featured speaker at the closing banquet. During his speech, he related a story on how he and others had grilled Alan Greenspan on the economy. In Edwards' version, he was hard on Greenspan and cornered him with tough questions. The silly thing about this is that Edwards was talking to a room full of politicians and almost everyone there had seen the hearings televised on CSPAN. The actual truth was that Edwards asked Greenspan two or three lightweight questions and did everything but kiss Greenspan's ring on national TV. He further went on to relate how he had voted against his colleagues in some critical budget matter and told a story of how Daniel Moynihan had congratulated him on standing up for what he believed in. Unfortunately for Edwards again, everyone in the room was aware that Moynihan had brokered the deal with the GOP and that Edwards, having voted as contrarian simply to get his name in the news, was probably closer to being slapped down by Moynihan than to being congratulated. By the end of his speech, even the most enthusastic Democrats, having realized that this man was an unrepentant liar, had gone from wild applause to polite golf-clap.
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