John Edwards’ “Poverty Tour” Bombs
And Newsweek boo-hoos about it. Blames “A nation’s inability to be moved”.
Newsweek’s Jonathan Darman lamented this week that the John Edwards poverty tour/publicity tour didn’t passionately grip America, that it did not immediately become a mythic event, like filthy-rich Bobby Kennedy’s poverty tour in 1968. In a dramatic flourish, the young Harvard-educated whipper-snapper blames this tragedy on not-very-compassionate America:
“There is something tragic about Edwards’s failure to break through. Today, 37 million Americans live below the poverty line, 12 million more than at the time of Kennedy’s death. And yet Edwards’s call of conscience has not resonated. By all rights, Edwards, the son of a millworker, should have an easier time talking about poverty than did Kennedy, the son of a millionaire. His difficulty speaks to the candidate’s inability to connect. It also speaks to the nation’s inability to be moved.”
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Heartless bastards, all. Hey, I resemble that remark. Yo, edwards, get a haircut.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:18 amLol JC….I recommend a nice high & tight!
July 27th, 2007 at 9:55 amha a nice high and tight for Edwards, that would be some funny shit Doc. I would give him that haircut myself, through the years i have learned how to shave my own like that. but hes not man enough to wear that cut.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:22 amAnd this article is silly, our inability to be “moved”? my ass, this country gives more than any other country on planet earth. Not to mention all the government programs in place
How ironic the man with the pretty hair is digging his own grave!
How awesome is that?
July 27th, 2007 at 11:13 amwho’s john edwards? isn’t that a mortgage company or something?
July 27th, 2007 at 11:30 amI’m already moved by poverty so much so that i do soemthing about it everyday. I dont need a politician, particularly a greedy amoral lawyer, to motivate me to do something about poverty and a guess this is likely the sentiment of many other americans.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:49 pm