Tugging at the Walls
North Carolina's favorite one-term senator had long since theatrically discarded his suit jacket--better to see you have no tie, my dear--and ostentatiously rolled up his sleeves when he pulled out the biggest populist groaner in his revamped arsenal.
"If someone in your community out in rural New Hampshire--or, in my case, rural North Carolina--wants to raise a barn, we don't say, 'We'll watch you from the sidelines,' " John Edwards told the few hundred gathered at an elementary school in Portsmouth for his presidential campaign kick-off. "That's not America. That's not who we are."
One can forgive Edwards for mistaking "America" for the "Amish." After all, both begin with "Am" and both probably look confoundingly similar from Edwards' perch atop his 100 acre Chapel Hill plantation, where I'm sure Edwards and his neighbors spent untold days tugging up the walls of his multi-million dollar mansion.
Nevertheless, I'd be shocked if a New Hampshire barn has been raised by anyone other than some chic liberal's favorite contractor as a rustic accoutrement in the last thirty years. The pristine finished rooms of such barns are no doubt at this very moment filled with the wives of doctors, lawyers and professors; wives who have recently decided to dabble in some bourgeoisie artistic endeavor in the hours between Oprah episodes and dinner parties: John Edwards' base, in other words.
Shawn Macomber
Bang up article. It is very interesting that no matter how many times Edwards is exposed as a hypocrite and a liar, his fans just continue to adore him. I know a number of otherwise sane people who go all moist over the prospect that Edwards is running for President again. I guess the question for Edwards is simply whether his True Believers will outnumber those of The Beast In Pants Suits and those of Barack Hussein.
"If someone in your community out in rural New Hampshire--or, in my case, rural North Carolina--wants to raise a barn, we don't say, 'We'll watch you from the sidelines,' " John Edwards told the few hundred gathered at an elementary school in Portsmouth for his presidential campaign kick-off. "That's not America. That's not who we are."
One can forgive Edwards for mistaking "America" for the "Amish." After all, both begin with "Am" and both probably look confoundingly similar from Edwards' perch atop his 100 acre Chapel Hill plantation, where I'm sure Edwards and his neighbors spent untold days tugging up the walls of his multi-million dollar mansion.
Nevertheless, I'd be shocked if a New Hampshire barn has been raised by anyone other than some chic liberal's favorite contractor as a rustic accoutrement in the last thirty years. The pristine finished rooms of such barns are no doubt at this very moment filled with the wives of doctors, lawyers and professors; wives who have recently decided to dabble in some bourgeoisie artistic endeavor in the hours between Oprah episodes and dinner parties: John Edwards' base, in other words.
Shawn Macomber
Bang up article. It is very interesting that no matter how many times Edwards is exposed as a hypocrite and a liar, his fans just continue to adore him. I know a number of otherwise sane people who go all moist over the prospect that Edwards is running for President again. I guess the question for Edwards is simply whether his True Believers will outnumber those of The Beast In Pants Suits and those of Barack Hussein.
posted by Anonymous | 8:23 AM
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I don't understand it either. He is a phoney baloney. For some reason, he wants to come across in the 2008 campaign as another Jimmy Carter circa 1976. We don't need another Carter in the White House.
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