John Edwards flips Michigan the bird
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Interesting exchange yesterday between Presidential candidate John Edwards and a group of machinists and aerospace workers. Allow me to paraphrase…
John Edwards: I’m telling all Americans to give up their SUVs to help sacrifice and save energy.
Union worker: How can you tell us to give up our SUVs when you live in a 28,000-square-foot mansion?
John Edwards: I’m a lawyer.
Union worker: Oh, ok.
*Applause*
I couldn’t help but want to shout a few follow ups at the man just reading the news report of his little Q & A. The first would have been, and I quote myself here… “so?”
Read on . . .
The second would have been how can you ask Americans to sacrifice what they drive to ease your conscience on environmental matters when you won’t sacrifice the $127,000 illegally raised by Dr. Death’s now officially indicted legal counsel, Geoff Fieger (allegedly)?
Wait, don’t tell me. You’re a lawyer. Got it.
This is Mark Brewer's candidate, by the way. The pick of the chair of the Michigan Democrat Party wants to tell you what you can or can't drive. And, by extension, he wants to tell the Big 3 what they can and can't sell, attempting to take their most profitable vehicles off the market.
Just what Michigan needs.
Lest anyone doubt such a mind boggling conversation actually took place, the Associated Press reports:
The former North Carolina senator was asked specifically if he would tell them to give up their SUVS, he said, "Yes."
…Edwards was asked during his appearance how he explained the contradiction of asking Americans to sacrifice while he's living in a 28,000-square-foot mansion.
He said he came from nothing, worked hard all his life, has always supported workers and fought big corporations as a lawyer.
"I think Americans are actually willing to sacrifice," Edwards said during a forum held by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. "One of the things they should be asked to do is drive more fuel efficient vehicles."
Of course, as a lawyer, Edwards knows that when the federal government indicts you on multiple counts you’re in some hot water. Still, he refuses to return the illegal (allegedly) campaign cash. Ethics are, apparently, not quite as important as competing in the cash race with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Meanwhile, Fieger-time himself continues the battle against Joe McCarthy, black books and vast rightwing conspiracies. Not that the judge is buying it. AP is also reporting the case might just be going to trial.
Fieger and Johnson are charged with conspiracy, causing the Edwards campaign to unwittingly make false statements, making illegal campaign contributions in another's name and making illegal campaign contributions from a corporation.
A motion seeking to dismiss the charges was filed Tuesday and thrown out shortly afterward by U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman.
Sounds like a winning team, right? Maybe Edwards would consider Fieger for a potential running mate. They’re both lawyers. They both like illegal campaign money (allegedly). And, though Fieger isn’t on record just yet supporting an abolition of the sports utility vehicle, I’m sure he’d be willing to issue a statement if Edwards asked nice.
Then again, maybe TELLING American citizens (not asking, mind you) to give up their SUVs isn’t the best way to ingratiate yourself to voters in a state dependant on the struggling automobile industry. For all the insistence by the radical left in Michigan that the state’s economic ills must all be laid at the feet of the big 3 there’s a surprising lack of outrage when a candidate for the highest office in the land insists he’ll tell Ford, GM and Chrysler to stop producing their most profitable vehicles.
Not exactly the best way to get the industry back on their feet. And not exactly the best time to threaten hundreds of thousands of Michigan jobs, most located in and around Detroit, a city virtually tied with Buffalo as the poorest big city in America.
According to the Detroit Free Press figures released yesterday stick the D with a 28.5% poverty rate. But that’s not the half of it.
Nationally, by contrast, the poverty rate declined from 13.1% to 12.7% in 2006 -- the first dip in this decade -- and median household income climbed to $48,451. In 2006, the poverty level for a family of four was an annual income of slightly less than $21,000.
Poor households in Livingston County jumped 28.7% while other metro Detroit areas saw increases that ranged from 25.1% in Dearborn to 22.3% in Livonia to 69.8% in Canton.
And while the same story tells us about people like Rich Andrews, a Madison Heights resident and former landscaper who’s looking to Nevada for employment, there are thousands more just like him in the region.
After 5,000 applied for 350 Walmart jobs in Livonia about a month ago (wait, I thought those were supposed to be the worst jobs in the world… huh…) a job fair yesterday in Clinton Township drew thousands in the first day. And it’ll continue today. The Detroit News reports:
By the time the first day of the fair was over at 6 p.m. Tuesday, more than 4,000 people had attended, in search of one of the 1,000 jobs that are to be filled before the exclusive mall opens to the public Oct. 18 on M-59 between Garfield and Romeo Plank roads.
Tables overflowed with would-be workers filling out paperwork for security, maintenance, management and sales jobs. Many were forced to sit on the floor to complete their application.
I just hope none of them pulled up in SUVs.
Everyone has hypocritical positions in their life. Most people have an internal regulator that makes them realize before they spout something out of their mouth, that they aren't being consistent, so they stay quiet. It is clear Edwards doesn't have that regulator.
I mean this guy has the chutzpah to call himself a Washington outsider when the only reason he is a Washington outsider, is he didn't run for re-election to the Senate when it became clear his constituents wouldn't re-elect him.
He goes to New Orleans to blast big corporations that foreclose on people's houses while investing his $$ in companies foreclosing on New Orleans residents' homes.
He says he is for the poor while getting thousands of dollars to speak about poverty.
We should all give up SUV's while he lives in a zillion square foot home.
I could go on and on.
Luckily we can laugh at him and move on because he will say anything to try and get elected. No one other than the DailyKaos crowd is dumb enough to vote for this guy.
He stands as much chance of being elected President as I do.
other than one being wealthy?
Edwards is a socialist and he is a fringe candidate of the limo-riding left
Who freaking cares about ANYTHING Edwards says??? He has about as much chance of winning the nomination as Ron Paul: zero.
There's just no way to parody Con Edwards ................... he is a living parody.
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Vista really sucks!
not allow people to deduct mortgage interest on 3000 square foot homes also?
That's the most blatant example of imposing one's value on another that I have seen in a while.
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