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The fall of a demagogue
I wasn't going to blog anything about John Edwards' recent public admission to an affair with Rielle Hunter. As has been noted many times previously on this blog, Edwards is a demagogue who represents the worst in American national...
A truly frightening thought
It's been comforting that John Edwards' demagoguery has not generated the type of buzz and political support that would make him a top contender for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. However, this Robert Novak/Rasmussen blurb ended my sense of comfort:...
Say what, John Edwards?
Following on the previous post, have you heard about demagogue John Edwards' latest proposal? A two-year ban on advertising for prescription drugs. Paul Jacob suggests a common sense ban of another sort....
Edwards returns to demagoguery
After an effective television ad, the John Edwards campaign returns to Edwards' usual form of demagoguery against business interests in the ad below: By the way, one of Edwards' proposed ways in which to force Congress to take action on...
Edwards scores
I've criticized John Edwards over the years for his demagogic tendencies. However, I must admit that the video below by the Edwards campaign is darn effective. Don't you know that Team Hillary will be working on those debating skills in...
The risk of demagoguery
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' demagoguery has been a frequent topic on this blog, so I read with interest this Larry Ribstein post that analyzes Edwards' latest hypocrisy -- lambasting the actions of subprime lenders on the campaign trail while...
John Edwards, demagogue
Democratic Party presidential candidate John Edwards has been a frequent topic on this blog, but it's rare that his special style of demagoguery is captured as succiently as in this video of a bit over a minute. I don't know...
The McCain meltdown
The fellows over at Professors R-Squared are having a rather fun time chronicling the remarkably quick demise of the John McCain Presidential Campaign (see here and here). But the best line on the McCain campaign meltdown still came from Jay...
Edwardsian demagoguery
As if on cue after this post from yesterday, Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards is engaging in his usual brand of demagogery (earlier examples here): Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says a wave of mergers in the oil industry should...
What is it about John Edwards?
Presidential politics is outside the usual scope of this blog, but Democratic candidate John Edwards is a lawyer and was so underwhelming as the 2004 Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate that he became a fairly regular topic with his frequent gaffes. Well,...
Does anyone take John Edwards seriously anymore?
As noted in this post from late 2004, a decent case can be made that former Democratic vice-presidential candidate was the difference in costing John Kerry the close 2004 Presidential election, particularly after his Benny Hinn imitation on the campaign...
John Edwards' political future, RIP?
No astute political analyst am I, this Economist article reflects my amateur political analysis towards John Edwards' political future: Mr Edwards is well on the way to becoming a man with a brilliant future behind him. What did he add...
Crossing the line
Charles Krauthammer thinks John Edwards crossed the line, and he supports his argument with wisdom generated from personal experience: This is John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do the work that we can do...
A great post-debate line
Former Republican senator from Wyoming Alan Simpson attended Tuesday's debate between Vice-Presidential candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards. During an interview after the refreshingly contentious debate, Mr. Simpson waxed nostalgic about the bygone days in which such contentiousness was the...
John Edwards' vision through the prism of John O'Quinn
In this American Spectator piece, New York Sun columnist William Tucker relates to his past interview with famed Houston plaintiffs' attorney John O'Quinn in interpreting fellow trial lawyer and Democratic Party vice-presidential candidate John Edwards' world view: When it came...
Great Quotes
From Ryan Lizza's campaign journal at The New Republic, on the difference between the Howard Dean and John Edwards' campaigns: "If Dean's events sometimes look like the bar scene from Star Wars, Edwards's traveling show has the feel of an...
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