posted on July 8, 2004 11:24:45 AM new
Ann drives another nail nail in Kerry's campaign.
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Ann Coulter
I guess with John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as his running mate, he really does want to stand up for all Americans, from those worth only $60 million to those worth in excess of $800 million.
In one of the many stratagems Democrats have developed to avoid telling people what they believe, all Edwards wants to talk about is his cracker-barrel humble origins story. We're supposed to swoon over his "life story," as the flacks say, which apparently consists of the amazing fact that ... his father was a millworker!
That's right up there with "Clinton's stepdad was a drunk" and "Ted Kennedy's dad was a womanizing bootlegger" on my inspirational life-stories meter. In fact, I'm immediately renouncing my university degrees and going to work for the post office just to give my future children a shot at having a "life story," should they decide to run for president someday.
What is so amazing about Edwards' father being a millworker? That's at least an honorable occupation -- as opposed to being a trial lawyer. True, Edwards made more money than his father did. I assume strippers make more money than their alcoholic fathers who abandoned them did, too. This isn't a story of progress; it's a story of devolution.
Despite the overwrought claims of Edwards' dazzling legal skills, winning jury verdicts in personal injury cases has nothing to do with legal talent and everything to do with getting the right cases -- unless "talent" is taken to mean "having absolutely no shame." Edwards specialized in babies with cerebral palsy whom he claimed would have been spared the affliction if only the doctors had immediately performed Caesarean sections.
As a result of such lawsuits, there are now more than four times as many Caesarean sections as there were in 1970. But curiously, there has been no change in the rate of babies born with cerebral palsy. As The New York Times reported: "Studies indicate that in most cases, the disorder is caused by fetal brain injury long before labor begins." All those Caesareans have, however, increased the mother's risk of death, hemorrhage, infection, pulmonary embolism and Mendelson's syndrome.
In addition, the "little guys" Edwards claims to represent are having a lot more trouble finding doctors to deliver their babies these days as obstetricians leave the practice rather than pay malpractice insurance in excess of $100,000 a year.
In one of Edwards' silver-tongued arguments to the jury on behalf of a girl born with cerebral palsy, he claimed he was channeling the unborn baby girl, Jennifer Campbell, who was speaking to the jurors through him:
"She said at 3, 'I'm fine.' She said at 4, 'I'm having a little trouble, but I'm doing OK.' Five, she said, 'I'm having problems.' At 5:30, she said, 'I need out.'"
She's saying, "My lawyer needs a new Jaguar ... "
"She speaks to you through me 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, tell her to pipe down, would you? I'm trying to hear the evidence in a malpractice lawsuit.
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde on the death of Little Nell, one must have a heart of stone to read this without laughing. What is this guy, a tent-show preacher? An off-the-strip Las Vegas lounge psychic couldn't get away with this routine.
Is Edwards able to channel any children right before an abortionist's fork is plunged into their tiny skulls? Why can't he hear those babies saying, "Let me live! Stop spraying this saline solution all over me!" Edwards must experience interference in channeling the voices of babies about to be aborted. Their liberal mothers' hands seem to muffle those voices.
And may we ask what the pre-born Jennifer Campbell thinks about war with Iraq? North Korea? Marginal tax rates? If Miss Cleo here is going to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, I think the voters are entitled to know that.
While making himself fabulously rich by taking a one-third cut of his multimillion-dollar verdicts coaxed out of juries with junk science and maudlin performances, Edwards has the audacity to claim, "I was more than just their lawyer; I cared about them. Their cause was my cause."
If he cared so deeply, how about keeping just 10 percent of the multimillion-dollar jury awards, rather than a third? In fact, as long as these Democrats are so eager to raise the taxes of "the rich," how about a 90 percent tax on contingency fees?
For someone who didn't care about the money, it's interesting that Edwards avoided cases in which the baby died during delivery. Evidently, jury awards average only about $500,000 when the babies die, and there is no disabled child to parade before the jury.
Edwards was one of the leading opponents of a bill in the North Carolina Legislature that would have established a fund for all babies born with cerebral palsy. So instead of all disabled babies in North Carolina being compensated equitably, only a few will win the jury lottery -- one-third of which will go to trial lawyers like Edwards, who insists he doesn't care about the money.
Despite the now-disproved junk science theory about C-sections preventing cerebral palsy that Edwards peddled in the channeling case, the jury awarded Edwards' client a record-breaking $6.5 million. This is the essence of the modern Democratic Party, polished to perfection by Bill Clinton: They are willing to insult the intelligence of 49 percent of the people if they think they can fool 51 percent of the people.
So while Michael Moore, Al Franken, George Soros, Crazy Al Gore and the rest of the characters from the climactic devil-worshipping scene in "Rosemary's Baby" provide the muscle for the Kerry campaign, Kerry picks a pretty-boy milquetoast as his running mate, narrowly edging out a puppy for the spot. Just don't ask the Democrats what they believe. Edwards' father was a millworker, and that's all you need to know.
"The natural family is a man and woman bound in a lifelong covenant of marriage for the purposes of:
*the continuation of the human species,
*the rearing of children,
*the regulation of sexuality,
*the provision of mutual support and protection,
*the creation of an altruistic domestic economy, and
*the maintenance of bonds between the generations."
posted on July 8, 2004 12:18:45 PM new
[I]"She said at 3, 'I'm fine.' She said at 4, 'I'm having a little trouble, but I'm doing OK.' Five, she said, 'I'm having problems.' At 5:30, she said, 'I need out.'"
She's saying, "My lawyer needs a new Jaguar ... " [/i]
funny quip. It took me a long time to appreciate her sense of humor.
But I say Woe unto the doctors and lawyers, alike! Alot of them have lost their values and morals or reasons for treating patients, or doing some surgery on a 90yr old woman. Will anybody tell me that doesnt have to do with money for them too?
posted on July 8, 2004 12:37:13 PM new
Yep, Kerry must have made the right choice, otherwise the Republicans and neo-cons wouldn't have come out swinging so fast or snarling so loud...
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posted on July 8, 2004 01:43:49 PM new
I can't remember an election in the past when any Veep candidate was so vehemently attacked. It's the Vice President for god's sake. The right's overreaction here is evidence of their panic, and will surely blow up in their faces. What fun
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posted on July 9, 2004 08:36:40 AM new
Gosh, prof: did you forget Dan Quail already?????
Oh yes: he was a Republician VP, so he doesn't count.
In Christ,
Rick
Luke 12:48
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I do not accept His claim to be God." That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic....or else he would be the devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
C.S. Lewis: "Mere Christianity"
posted on July 9, 2004 10:29:48 AM new
Of course he counts, but the Democrats' attempts to slander J. Danforth don't hold a candle to the rancor the Republicans had locked and loaded and ready to fire the moment Edwards' announcement came out. I won't suggest for a minute that only the right does it. They're just better at it.
In the Desert
profe
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posted on July 9, 2004 12:52:15 PM new
Uh, it's QUAYLE!
And isn't it funny how the republicans say Clinton was immoral, therefore he couldn't be trusted ,..'cause he diddled in the Oval Office.
And yet they continue to post, and obviously believe the word of Ann(My skirts are short 'cause it's quicker) Coulter, a self admitted slut!
If you're sex life determines EVERYTHING about you (which it doesn't) then why do the Righties have two different standards...one for Action Annie and one for Clinton?
posted on July 9, 2004 06:40:13 PM newPeople don't seem to like scumbag trial lawyers like Edwards who get rich sueing corporations over spilt coffee
Yeah, but this campaign against Edwards isn't being carried out by "people", is it? It's being carried out by the Bush re-election folks. Hardly what you'd call unbiased "people". I don't think most people care who he sued, and frankly, the fact that trial lawyers are as successful as they are is an indication to me that there must be a whole lotta "people" who like what they do just fine.
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posted on July 9, 2004 07:00:07 PM new
Come on Professor, if youre throwing around the 'people' word - people dont like lawyers in general. And there's a reason for that. Do you have any idea how pompous most of them are? or how quickly and unflinchingly they will take your dollar?
Bill&Hill are lawyers, was that part of their problem? perceived problem? They are a necessary evil imo. Unless of course if you watch thepractice or LA Law, and then they're hero's.
posted on July 9, 2004 11:08:53 PM new
Our profe says:
....but the Democrats' attempts to slander J. Danforth don't hold a candle to the rancor the Republicans had locked and loaded and ready to fire the moment Edwards' announcement came out.
Can't blame the republicans for following kerry's lead.
kerry's the one who gave us the *ammunition* to use on his own VP, who would become our president, should something happen to kerry.
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Of course, it only took a New York second for Edwards' opponents to launch their criticism.
"In the Senate four years...and that is the full extent of public life...no international experience, no military experience.... The American people want an experienced hand at the helm of state. This is not the time for on-the-job training in the White House on national-security issues.... I think that the world is looking for leadership that is tested and sure."
Hard-hitting criticism, to say the least, but that's just what Kerry had to say about Edwards prior to tapping him for the bottom of his ticket.
So, just who is John Edwards, and why is the man who selected him so skeptical about his ability to lead?
posted on July 10, 2004 04:38:13 AM new
Linda, sorry it won't work...that crap happens EVERY time candidates are vying for their parties endorsement....it's standard procedure.
If that and the hair-do thing are your best shots, you're desperate(like all Republicans).
Kerry went to Vietnam....George stayed home hiding in a bottle to aid the enemy......now you'll disappear for awhile...and you won't be missed.
Will twelvepole be back now and start slinging the insults?
