I know Kristyne as officially chucked Edwards into the ashbin of history, but here is some more information to make you thankful he and Kerry didn't win in 2004...and food for thought about the current "rock star" candidate:
- - - When veteran Democratic strategist Bob Shrum first met John Edwards in 1997, he saw in the accomplished trial lawyer a raw political talent. "I called my partners and said. 'I think I just met a future president of the United States,'" Shrum recalls. ... In 2003, he mounted his first campaign for president. A strong showing earned him a spot as Kerry's running mate in 2004. Shrum, then a Kerry advisor, said in a 2007 book that Kerry had qualms. Edwards, he wrote, told Kerry he was going to confide something he'd never told a soul: that after his son Wade had died, "he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he'd do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade's ideals of service . "Kerry was stunned, not moved," Shrum wrote. "As he told me later, Edwards had recounted the exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before - and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else." "I believe he gave into a very human tendency," Shrum says. "He wanted to be vice president and said what he had to." ... "I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate and becoming a national public figure," he told ABC's "Nightline" on Friday. "All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want. You're invincible. And there will be no consequences." - - - Nevertheless, Lurch picked this guy for his running mate---a consequence of an even worse judgment: hiring Bob Shrum. That twice-told story about hugging his dead son's cadaver and promising to be a crusader for a better world to it is beyond creepy... and the fact that all this did was give Lurch some abstract "qualms" stuns even me. BTW, I see the Obamessiah getting no less completely full of himself. His fall will be even sadder to watch; I just hope it happens, as it did with Edwards, out of office. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/%(listmsgid)s ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
