John Edwards is Evil

From the NY Times too!

I haven't read this yet- thanks for posting the link, FF.

Updated On: 10/6/04 at 09:45 AM

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and I have to tell you right now — i didn't plan to talk about this — right now i feel her. i feel her presence. she's inside me, and she's talking to you.

i can tell you she's inside me, because i have eaten her tiny lifeless body in order to be able to truly taste her pain, and i'd like to now vomit a piece of her onto each of you here so that you too can taste the agony that she went through.

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Updated On: 10/6/04 at 09:56 AM

"... and I have to tell you right now — i didn't plan to talk about this — right now i feel her. i feel her presence. she's inside me, and she's talking to you".

Well... coming from someone who lost a child of his own, I have no trouble believing that his words were heartfelt and sincere. Do you know what it's like to lose a child in an accident???

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Curtain - out of curiosity, does your reaction indicate that you don't find this topic concerning Mr. Edwards to be of any interest, value or concern?

Guen, there's "imperfect," and then there's Dick Cheney.
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It might have referred to that case in there at one point, but he had made quite a bit of his fortune before 1996 from what I have been able to find. Feel free to prove me wrong though.

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Updated On: 10/6/04 at 10:27 AM

OMG !! A politician with questionable ethics!

Who knew?

Every election is about choosing the lesser of two evils. There is no perfect candidate nor has there ever been. While his approach is certainly bizarre, who's to say he didn't believe in the cause for which he was fighting? The case quoted occurred in 1985. Then they talk about studies that disprove his theory, but I doubt those studies occurred during the mid-80s. Hindsight is always 20-20, right?

"In building his career, Mr. Edwards underbid other lawyers to win promising clients, sifted through several dozen expert witnesses to find one who would attest to his claims, and opposed state legislation that would have helped all families with brain-damaged children and not just those few who win big malpractice awards."

Sounds like a true politician at work. I'd gladly take him if it means no more Bush. If Edwards is evil, what does that make Bush?

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While you're at it, check on the percentage of time that Bush has been on vacation in the last 4 years (hint -- the number's roughly 40%). THE PEOPLE aren't paying Bush that hefty salary (at a time of war and terrorism and economic collapse) to spend half of his time in Crawford, Texas.

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Margo, you know as well as I do that there's no such thing as the President being on vacation. If he's sitting on a horse in Texas and something happens, he's still the President and deals with it. He still gets his daily briefs, etc. He just doesn't spend 100% of the day working as he does when he's not on "vacation"

A member of the Senate is paid to sit in commitees and vote on legislation. That's what I'm talking about with John Edwards.


Erik what did Clitler, I mean Clinton do for eight years?

I attack the party as a whole.

Why to Kerry supporters, the people who brought you the Clinton Administration, always try to act like it never happened?

I abhor John Edwards.

As I've said before, I am related to an ob/gyn. That ob/gyn is not only serving for a 12th year on a State Medical Board, but also is currently on the Federation of State Medical Boards (which is the national board that governs all state boards), teaches at a medical school, and is also serving as chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology in the women's health department of that university. He is an amazing doctor, specializing in infertility, and people come from other states (and even other countries) to be under his care.

In all his years as a doctor, only one thing has ever gone wrong.

In the 1980s, a woman (not one of his patients) came in to the hospital for an emergency delivery. She was a drug dealer who had a long history of cocaine abuse. She went into cardiac arrest during labor, due to the strain on her heart from said drug abuse. Against all odds, my relative was somehow able to deliver the baby completely unharmed. He then spent over an hour pushing on this woman's heart, trying to revive her. Despite his best efforts, she didn't make it.

Her family sued for $25 million dollars, stating that it was a malpractice case. The parents said that their daughter died due to completely to the doctor's negligence, which is a false statement. The lawyer they hired had very similar tactics to Mr. Edwards (he is actually a friend of the senator), and the family won a great deal of money on a case that had no merit by playing to the emotions of the jury.

Sadly, this kind of case is far from a rarity. And from the research I've done, it seems that these are exactly the kinds of cases that John Edwards chooses to fight: ones that shouldn't be won (so that he can charge more) but involve medical facts that the average jury member is not familiar with (because he can use more charm than fact in his case).

Just because people are well-spoken and convincing, that does not mean they are right. It is charismatic lawyers like John Edwards that hurt the practices of some of the best doctors in the country, all for the sake of money.

In his speech last night, he spoke about putting more responsibility on lawyers in malpractice cases. What he really means is that the persecuting lawyers should be given more power.

Maybe you don't see where I'm coming from here, but I don't want a person like that in office. He's manipulative and out to serve his own best interests. He's very willing to fight battles that should not be fought, putting people that have done no wrong in very bad positions.

Dick Cheney may not be the most charismatic, charming, happy, or honest man in the world, but at least he makes more arguments based on facts than on trying to play off of people's emotions. And while I will be making my vote based on the Presidential candidates over the Vice Presidential ones, the fact that Kerry chose him as a running mate does not speak highly of his ability to judge character. If he becomes president, I worry about who he would appoint to the cabinet and the supreme court.

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Updated On: 10/6/04 at 11:27 AM