I just finished listening to John Edwards at the most recent of these forums and was struck by several things. He gave impassioned, thoughtful answers to questions about the central issue of this election cycle – Iraq. He didn’t equivocate. Whether it can be done safely or not was not addressed adequately, but under his administration troops would be out in a year.



Edwards kept a good cadence as he spoke. The only thing missing from the choir at the end of each thought was a resounding “amen.” It was a lonely place to be.

As he spoke I became mesmerized, no, I would say hypnotized, by his hair. I was close to the front and there was a good light gleaming off the aforementioned locks. It wasn’t a halo effect, but each strand was perfectly in place. As I was listening, I was waiting for one of these strands to move, especially the small piece strategically lying across his forehead.

As he ran his fingers through his hair and it quickly fell back into place, I thought I heard the crack of a whip. But my hearing isn’t what it used to be, so I may have imagined it.

By the conclusion of the event, I realized I had to take back everything I have ever said about John Edwards.
His haircut WAS really worth 400 bucks. Some of us don’t have much hair left, but if you do, and are going out in a strong breeze, I recommend getting the name of his barber.

It's sad that the election process has become more of an auction where we judge the winner by who has the most money. Anything to avoid the real issues I guess.

It's sad that this post is about trivia rather substance. Anything to avoid the real issues I guess.

Whadda ya mean, trivia? My mommy said it was good and wrote me a note saying so. I put it on my fridge.

To be fair, it's no more trivial than Edwards saying he'd abandon the US nuclear weapons program. That's when my eyes glazed over - and then I noticed that hair dangling on his forehead. When your hair looks that good, you don't need to worry about substance.

Here's more trivia:
John Edwards has stood by his wife Elizabeth for 30 years through sickness and health.

Rudy Giuliani, recently divorced, had/has 2 women "friends". Judith Nathan and Cristyne Lategano.

Fred Thompson's current wife was only 10 when the Edwards were married.

John Edwards is one of the lucky group of older men with ample hair:
Kenny Rogers
George Jones
Phil Donahue
Ted Koppel
"Dog" the bountyhunter
Greg Allman
Johnny Winter
Ozzy Osborne
Michael Douglas
Roy Orbison

Others like Karl Rove compensate with thier Jaguars. It would take 3 John Edwards haircuts to make one payment. Which goes to prove that screwing the country is profitable.

Quick review quiz: Between Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson, who drives the better car?

Hillary will beat Rudy on hair count alone. We haven't had a bald president since Eisenhower. Of course he could go back to this look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8

Hey Al Gore won the Nobel prize. Are you working
on some commentary which disses him in a snide sort
of way? If Edwards wants to abandon the nuke
program he's a complete fool. Anyone who voted to
declare the Turkish genocide against Armenia as "genocide"
is also a fool. 100% negative payback on that one, as
Turkey attacks the Kurds in Iraq...

Dog's my man. The only bit of fan mail I have ever sent went to him. Makes me wanna run right out and catch bad guys and then convert them to Republicanism.

I'm sure I'm capable of dissing Gore in a snide snotty manner. I have faith in my skills. The Armenians deserve recognition, but the votes by the Democrats would just trivialize what happened and cause a 100% payback leading to more America troop deaths. I'm sure Shea-Porter will support the resolution.

The only bit of fan mail you ever sent, went to a guy? Gotcha. I won't tell anyone. *wink*

The Republicans want us to fear Muslims. Profile them at airports. Yet now in the case of Turkey, they want us to support the Muslims (Turkey) and not support the Armenians (Christian).

Flip-flop, flip-flop. Sometime you guys are gonna have to make up your minds.

Romney flip-flops on gay rights now that he's running for President.
In 1994 he wrote to the Log Cabin Republicans:
“If we are to achieve the goals we share, we must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern,” Romney wrote. “My opponent cannot do this. I can and will.”

He brags how he got elected in a blue state. He did it by decieving voters. Some people call that lying. But in politics it's just a "mistruth".

"votes by the Democrats would just trivialize what happened and cause a 100% payback leading to more America troop deaths."

Far more relevent is George Bush sacrificing soldiers to protect us from the "dangerous" Saddam Hussein. Or was it revenge for when the Iraquis bombed the World Trade center?

The Turks attacking the Kurds and the Kurds still attacking the Sunnis. It's just more proof that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez is right. The "war" (occupation) is a nightmare with no end in sight. All sides are nowhere near having the intentions of cooperating and uniting in one government. It's a “catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan”. This from a General who's been there.

Rudy has a plan. Stay there indefinitely, yet still cut taxes. How will he do that? Here's an example:

Shrink the FDA even more. He says 42% of the food inspectors will retire in the next 10 years. He will replace only half of them.

The reality: The number of inspectors has already been reduced from 14,000 to 5000. We used to have 8% of our food inspected, now it's less than 1%. Food imports have increased at 15% a year for the last 10 years. 60% of our fruits and veggies are now imported. 80% of our seafood. So what's the plan? Wait till people get sick and/or die, then recall the food. Bon Appetit!

I've heard a number of people who are conservative
criticize George Bush about Iraq by saying "mistakes were made", but they never say what the mistakes were. As a conservative can you answer that question?

Here are definitions of the mistakes. Bush has only admitted to "Not sending in enough troops earlier"

Starting a war with another country for concocted reasons, which did not hold up under scrutiny. The lack of a compelling rationale affects public support and the morale of the troops.

Ignoring intelligence that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Also
using discredited intelligence concerning Nigerian Yellow Cake in his 2003 State of the Union.

Failing to build a real international coalition prior to the Iraq invasion,

Not equipping troops in Iraq with adequate body armor or armored HUMVEES
Underfunding health care for troops and veterans.

Wildly underestimating the cost of the war. Predicting Iraq would pay for its own reconstruction.

Underestimating the enemy. Announcing that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln

The initial excessive use of force in counterinsurgency warfare instead of a plan to win hearts and minds.

Deceiving the American public about how badly the war is going. We’ve gone from “very very good progress” to “civil war” in Iraq very quickly. This “credibility gap” has caused Bush’s trustworthiness as measured by polls to plummet

Dissolving the Iraqi Army in May, 2003, and sending 400,000 men home, unemployed, resentful and heavily armed.

Allowing widespread looting after the fall of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003, on the grounds that "stuff happens," "democracy is messy," and "how many vases can they have?"-- and thus signalling that there would be no serious attempt to provide law and order in American Iraq.

Plotting to install corrupt financier, notorious liar, and shady operator Ahmad Chalabi as the soft dictator of Iraq, and refusing to plan for a post-war administration of the country because that might forestall Chalabi's coronation.

Allowing the Kurds to carve out a de-facto nation, as fundamentalist as Taliban-ruled Afghanistan ever was, which promises to cause ever more problems.

Failing to realize that even a 'victory' - beating down the Sunnis and their 'Al Qaida' helpers enough to get the violence down to some 'acceptable' level - only means making Iraq stable enough to be completely controlled by fundamentalist Shiites (those would be the people our President is so fond of calling 'Islamo-fascists) who are led by an Iranian-born Ayatollah.

Wow, that's a list. Not bad for less than 8 years. I bet if we go into Iran we can double this list in 8 months. The only mistake I see is not using enough MOAB's. Nothing beats a good 4th of July display.

Dave - for some odd reason I now feel the need to say Beth Chapman is why I watch his show.

From the little I've seen she seems to be a preferable role model to most of the women who end up in the news.

>Wow, that's a list. Not bad for less than 8 years.
Yup - Nothing much you can really disagree with. He is a criminal isn't he?

>I bet if we go into Iran we can double this list in 8 months.
Absolutely. The Middle East is a swamp. Might as well fight them Ay-rabs in Iran...They bombed the World Trade Center. We should kick the crap out of them.
Then maybe Dick Cheney will get into the race? He's the only one with the experience to continue this crusade. He inspires the same sort of feelings I always held for Ronald Reagan...

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