Looks like John Edwards...

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...is Kerry's VP choice. Not a bad move on his part. Puts a bit of pressure on GWB to put more time/focus into the Southern states. Don't like the guy politically but he seems like a nice enough fellow on the surface - other than his disgusting political views. Never followed him very much. Interesting.

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Oh, great!! The #1 and #4 rate Liberals in the Senate running together.

Kerry picks an ambulance chasing lawyer as his running mate. What ever happened to all the disdain Americans had for this type of lawyer?

How many believe if something were to happen to Kerry 30 days after he was elected, that John Edwards has the experience to be President?

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of course the GWB campaign will start the McCain twsit now (Edwards only
second choice blah blah - not that McCain would have agreed to be Veep of
the cadidate of his own party - or that GWB would have even dared to ask)

Here's what McCain had to say about Edwards and his book

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/07/ana04009.html

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of course the GWB campaign will start the McCain twsit now (Edwards only
second choice blah blah - not that McCain would have agreed to be Veep of
the cadidate of his own party - or that GWB would have even dared to ask)

Here's what McCain had to say about Edwards and his book

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And here's what Christopher Dodd said about Robt. Byrd.

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In a speech commemorating the 17,000 vote of Senator Robert Byrd, Dodd proudly claimed that, “Robert C. Byrd…would have been right at any time [in our history]. He would have been right at the founding of this country…he would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation. I cannot think of a single moment in this nation’s 220-plus year history where he would not have been a valuable asset to this country.”

So whats your point? Professionals say nice things about people they disagree with all the time.

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Don't know a lot about his political views other than what I saw in the debates. What I saw in the debates disgusted me thoroughly for the most part. He seems congenial, however.

Don't think the VP choice really has much of an effect on folks' votes anyway. It might make the Carolinas a bit tougher for GWB to carry, but not much.

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Don't know a lot about his political views other than what I saw in the debates. What I saw in the debates disgusted me thoroughly for the most part. He seems congenial, however.

Don't think the VP choice really has much of an effect on folks' votes anyway. It might make the Carolinas a bit tougher for GWB to carry, but not much.

Pretty much a tax and spend Liberal. Citizens Against Government Waste give him a rating of 13. Kerry gets a 25 and Kennedy gets an 18. With 100 being taxpayer friendly and 0-19 being hostile.

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as opposed to someone who would have prefered to become baseball
commissioner over runing for public office? - man, why didn't anyone give
him the ball-playing job - would've saved us a lot of head-aches.

whatever one may think of lawyers - you can become one only if you're
able to string up a couple of logical thoughts, can anitcipate ramifications of
your actions at a minmal level of compexity, and be patient enough to
read a document that is longer than half a page and contains more than
a bumper sticker bottom line. All qualities that might come in handy for a
president.

Cheers, Thomas

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as opposed to someone who would have prefered to become baseball
commissioner over runing for public office? - man, why didn't anyone give
him the ball-playing job - would've saved us a lot of head-aches.

whatever one may think of lawyers - you can become one only if you're
able to string up a couple of logical thoughts, can anitcipate ramifications of
your actions at a minmal level of compexity, and be patient enough to
read a document that is longer than half a page and contains more than
a bumper sticker bottom line. All qualities that might come in handy for a
president.

Cheers, Thomas

You left out that he was elected to 2 terms as Governor of Texas. Last I checked, a bachelors degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard required some degree of intelligence. Unless of course you are ready to start insulting those 2 schools and all who have graduated from them.

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whatever one may think of lawyers - you can become one only if you're
able to string up a couple of logical thoughts, can anitcipate ramifications of
your actions at a minimal level of compexity, and be patient enough to
read a document that is longer than half a page and contains more than
a bumper sticker bottom line.

I call BS. Honestly, all it takes to be a lawyer is to finish law school and follow instructions to pass the Bar. I know some idiots who are lawyers. SUre, they aren't particularly successful, but lawyers do not have to be particularly smart. I find street smarts is better than intelligence.

Edwards is an interestign choice, though.

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whatever one may think of lawyers - you can become one only if you're
able to string up a couple of logical thoughts, can anitcipate ramifications of
your actions at a minimal level of compexity, and be patient enough to
read a document that is longer than half a page and contains more than
a bumper sticker bottom line.

I call BS. Honestly, all it takes to be a lawyer is to finish law school and follow instructions to pass the Bar. I know some idiots who are lawyers. SUre, they aren't particularly successful, but lawyers do not have to be particularly smart. I find street smarts is better than intelligence.

Edwards is an interestign choice, though.

Yes he is an interesting choice. I have to laugh when I hear people putting a lawyer like Edwards up on a pedestal, though. I mean give me a break. It's not as if he became a slip and fall attorney because of his commitment to truth, justice and concern for the poor and down-trodden.

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I wonder how many companies Edwards has been responsible for bankrupting?
I wonder how many jobs have been lost because of Edwards' nobility?

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You left out that he was elected to 2 terms as Governor of Texas.

nope - that's the office he'd turned down for the baseball job.

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Last I checked, a bachelors degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard

when I taught for a few years at one of those two I met a lot of brilliant
students - ceratinly a majority - but there was also a group of students that I
couldn't understand what they were doing in college at all. A C-average
would ceratinly singled those out. I'd consider an A-student from a regular
state university with some serious majors to be stronger any time.

Cheers, T

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when I taught for a few years at one of those two I met a lot of brilliant
students - **[sic]**ceratinly a majority - but there was also a group of students that I
couldn't understand what they were doing in college at all. A C-average
would **[sic]**ceratinly singled those out. I'd consider an A-student from a regular
state university with some serious majors to be stronger any time.

Cheers, T

I'd not give your judgement much credibility considering how impressed you are with the intellectual capabilities of lawyers.

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13% CAGW rating, eh? Sickening. Though CAGW has taken a few odd positions in the past, they are normally pretty much on point - most of the time.

This will put the ABA more firmly behind the Dims, if that's possible.

Birds of a feather....ah well. Kerry's choice makes sense. It's a good move on his part, from a political perspective.

A thought for Mr. Edwards: if you're a man of the people who wants to help them get what they want, why not file a class action lawsuit to force labor unions to provide all of their members easily interpreted accounting statistics so that the Beck decision by the Supremes may be enforced?

Vinny the Anvil
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As you correctly guessed my major is not "Spell-Checker" - thanks for doing the honors.

all else stands as is.

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I wonder how many companies Edwards has been responsible for bankrupting?
I wonder how many jobs have been lost because of Edwards' nobility?

Not as many as Clinton caused with his tax increases (which he promised not to do but, you know, the economy was worse that he was told

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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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Is it just me or does John Edwards bear an eerie resemblance to John Ritter?

"Come & knock on my doooor..."

- Z
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Here's a quote.

"In the Senate four years -- and that is the full extent of public life -- no international experience, no military experience.... When I came back from Vietnam in 1969, I don't know if John Edwards was out of diapers then."

Guess who said that? You got it. John Kerrey. That is what he said about the man he's asking Americans to endorse as VP. Interesting.

I actually love Edwards. I would actually think about possibly voting Democrat if it wasn't for Mr. Flip Flop Kerrey.

Edwards is a great pick. The ticket needs charisma and personality bad. Watching Kerrey is like watching flies fuck. Edwards brings energy, charisma and honesty to the Democratic ticket. It certainly helps Kerrey greatly.

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Here's a quote.

"In the Senate four years -- and that is the full extent of public life -- no international experience, no military experience.... When I came back from Vietnam in 1969, I don't know if John Edwards was out of diapers then."

Guess who said that? You got it. John Kerrey. That is what he said about the man he's asking Americans to endorse as VP. Interesting.

Kerry was in Vietnam?

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So.........John Edwards gave up "readings" on "Crossing Over" and entered into the political arena?

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yes, Kerry was in Vietnam.

Three Purple Hearts
One Silver Star
One Bronze Medal

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/iraq.books/

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yes, Kerry was in Vietnam.

Three Purple Hearts
One Silver Star
One Bronze Medal

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/iraq.boo
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Kerry was in Vietnam????I never knew this. How long was hie there?

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yes, Kerry was in Vietnam.

Three Purple Hearts
One Silver Star
One Bronze Medal

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/iraq.books/

Oh yeah, now I remember. I think I heard something about that in one of his speeches. It was kinda hard to catch, though, since it was hidden at the end and way understated.

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Kerry was in Vietnam????I never knew this. How long was hie there?

Longer than Dubya...

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"Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

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Touche.

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