Comments on: Big gov’t Johnny announces plans to run for prez

By: Mwalimu Daudi

Mwalimu Daudi — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:11:16 +0000

Sometimes I think anyone capable of getting himself elected to national office should not be permitted to hold it.

Sounds like a cartoon I once saw in a book. A man was being interviewed for a job, and the inverviewer told him, “Frankly, the fact that you want to work here is a strike against you.”

By: geezer

geezer — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:46:59 +0000

Steve, that’s pretty close to what one of the two “good” Marx guys (Groucho, that is, the other being the one who gave us all those cool toys in the 60s and 70s) once said: “I’d never join a club that’d have me as a member.”

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:53:29 +0000

That’s because average hard working Americans can’t afford to get elected, and besides, being hard working they’re busy doing real stuff.

Sometimes I think anyone capable of getting himself elected to national office should not be permitted to hold it.

By: NC Cop

NC Cop — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:10:48 +0000

There are too many freaking millionares in Washington! That’s the problem. No matter which party you are talking about, they are all freakin millionares! There are no average, every day, hard working, Americans in Washington like there should be.

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:29:50 +0000

I think you got it right the first time around, Sev

By: Severian

Severian — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:26:34 +0000

I almost added that as an afterthought tommy. Unfortunately, it’s too true regardless of party affiliation.

By: tommy in nyc

tommy in nyc — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:10:34 +0000

introspection and soul-searching are lacking in most politicans currently holding jobs the U.S. Government overall Severian.

By: Severian

Severian — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:55:19 +0000

Surprise, I agree with your statement tommy, but introspection and soul searching do not seem to be part and parcel of the average Democrat politician’s personality profile.

By: tommy in nyc

tommy in nyc — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:45:26 +0000

Well Severian Gore didn’t win his home state and if New Hamphire!!! New Hamphire voted Gore in he would’ve won in 2000. Gore should look in the mirror first wondering why he lost before we even have a discussion about the 2000 elections.

By: Severian

Severian — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:25:12 +0000

Gore was robbed eh? Translation, Gore was prevented from stealing the election. Gore as president? Scary. Having seen his campaign lawyers deliberately disenfranchise military absentee voters on a technicality because the military votes more Republican, make me wonder just why the hell he thinks he deserves to be commander in chief. If you are going to command the military, it’s a damned poor start to throw their votes out. But then, the whole Clintonista Clan view the military as less than slaves.

Recount and look at pregnant chads over and over and over in a vain attempt to divine voter intent while at the same time throwing out absentee ballots from the military, unambiguous ballots, merely because the APO didn’t put a post date on them, hypocrisy at it’s finest, a definite Democrat trait.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:19:40 +0000

Hmm and hmm . . . not so fast, mes amis. If John Edwards can position himself as the Populist v. Hillary’s aristocrat, he can win this thing. It’s worked before. Cf. Carter, Jimmy. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Only in America can populists be millionaires, neh?)

I think the E-Man would do well to fly under the ole radar for a while, and then bring his A game to the court after the mediots tire of Obama and start trashing him. That could work for him.

I’m starting mediot-immune Hillary off at 3-2, with Edwards at 5-1 and Obama at 15-1. Everybody else is “The Field,” and you can have ‘em at 25-1.

By: Lorica

Lorica — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:12:04 +0000

I have to admit, it does seem to be abit hard to believe that Edwards cares 1 iota about the poor when he has made so much wealth from law suits suing the health care industry using such junk science. All these law suits have done nothing but make trial lawyers rich and our health care costs soar. Seems to me if he and his trial lawyer buddies got together and figured it out they would do us all a favor and stop suing for huge settlements. But then We all know that ain’t about to happen, after all John Edwards just cares too much, well about the money he can make from a juicy law suit at least, but about the poor, not unless they are the plaintiff. – Lorica

By: CZ

CZ — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:10:30 +0000

Yes Little Tommy….Edwards does give a flying fig……when the cameras roll.

If he cared so much why wasn’t he down there helping last year at this time?

Typical lefty flim-flam and you’re buying it.

By: MinorRipper

MinorRipper — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:04:12 +0000

I think Edwards is great but I just don’t know what has changed since 2004 except that he is two years older. The more I think about the Dems in 2008, the more I think the nomination is Al Gore’s to lose: he was robbed in 2000, has been consistently right on Iraq (unlike Hillary), and will not have a problem with either cash or name recognition… I wrote a story on this at http://www.minor-ripper.blogspot.com

By: Severian

Severian — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:51:32 +0000

Edwards only cares about the poor as long as he can either ride their backs into the Oval Office or charge them 80% of their lawsuit proceeds for his “services.” Why is it that you liberals are so willing to believe whatever BS your idols put out without question? The Breck Girl, care about the poor? The economic growth Bush has managed to create with tax cuts has done more to help the “poor” than any government handout program you on the left seem to be so enamored of.

But, it’s more BDS BS from tommy. Pick the bong back up tommy and step away from the keyboard. Everyone, you included, will be better off and happier.