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They call him “John” for a reason
December 29th, 2006John Edwards flung his fedora into the coming president maelstrom. Evidentially his hair is too perfect to actually risk wearing the hat.
Regardless of Edwards’ sartorial fears, we all should fear his priorities which have brought renewed hope to the formaldehyde soaked heart of Lenin, and have even given Castro a new lease on life.
We can ignore his baseless populist message about “changing America”, a country that people seem basically happy with and to which millions attempt to emigrate each year. His top priorities are unabashed attempts to move the socialist football forward while the country by-and-large is running for the opposite goal. From his web site wee see agenda items such as:
“Economic equality”: Redistribution of wealth in kinder, gentler marketing spin.
“Universal health care”: Bringing the compassion of the IRS, the accuracy of the post office, and the efficiency of Amtrak to speed your dying process.
“Rebuilding America’s middle class”: Last time I checked the American middle class was doing quite fine with new SUV’s in three car garages, near-zero unemployment, fresh real estate wealth, and fattening 401Ks. Hard to rebuild a structure that is standing on it’s own unless you first tear it down (which he must in order to redistribute their wealth to others).
“Eliminate poverty”: Sorry Johnny, LBJ started that project in 1964, and given that poor people in America have roofs over their heads, three squares a day, a car in the driveway, and a color TV … seems it may well have been eliminated.
The short story here is that Edwards will attempt to resurrect the age old class warfare bias to correct inequities and problems that simply do not exist. And more than a few gullible voters will buy into his collectivist claptrap with nary a question. But pitting the haves and the have-mores against one another is a tactic used by politicians since voting was first invented, so Edwards simply takes the well worn path of least resistance, and displays a mind not worthy of the planet’s top job.
And Johny will be eaten alive by cagier critters like Hillary, Barack, or anyone flipping burgers at McDonald’s, who have aggregate IQ’s twice Edwards’. It has been a while since the American Political Circus Maximus has conducted a human sacrifice, so we should be grateful that Edwards has voluntarily placed his throat on the block.
