Bi-Polar Bear wrote:I am constantly amazed at how people minimize the things Edwards... or any sucessful attorney who gets big settlements for people who deserve them is ostracized for getting paid for it.
How many of you would rather make the most you can for the work you do and how many of you would like to make the least?
How many of you would pass up the opportunity to make as much money as you could for yourself and your family while doing honest work and helping people?\
John Edwards earned his riches... he comes from a modest background.
What a load of happy horseshit, Bear. Victims of tragic happenstance may well deserve to get paid for their losses in your opinion; but surely not by getting a scumbag like John Edwards to victimize another innocent party. That simply doesn't make sense. Every one of us likely passes on the opportunity to "make as much money as you could", when we consider the means of doing so beneath us. John Edwards made a career out of making innocent people pay for other innocent people's tragedy. One need not be a saint to recognize there is nothing noble in that. There is, in fact, ample cause for scorn.
FreeDuck wrote:Miller wrote:Edwards isn't a charity lawyer. He always took his big percentage when he won a case.
Ah yes, but that's the American way -- most specifically the conservative, free market way. We balk at the idea that insurance companies should take any hit whatsoever to their profit margins in order to actually provide care to their customers, but the attorney that goes to work forcing them to do what they are obliged to do is supposed to work for free.
If John Edwards was that kind of attorney; he'd have my respect and endorsement. He isn't. He's a scumbag who exploits the grief of tragic happenstance to line his own pockets. Pretending to channel a dead baby to convince a jury that a Doctor's Judgment call (which we now know was in all likelihood the correct call) was actually a callous disregard for life. This cretin's behavior resulted in a change in the way babies are delivered (for no good reason) and increased the expense of health care on us all. Heroes don't do that kind of thing; scumbags do.
His next most famous case was robbing Sta-rite when tragedy struck a little girl. Some kids
removed a grate, that had
never been installed correctly, and the poor thing got severely injured by Sta-Rite's pump. Enter the scumbag to talk about his own tragic loss of his son, for an extraordinary length of time, and exploit 12 members of a jury's compassion to the point where they blamed Sta-Rite for not putting a warning label on a grate that had never been properly installed, and had in fact been removed.
John Edwards may well have been a knight in shining armor, had he used his extraordinary talents to go after bean counters like the A-holes at Cigna in the story above. Perhaps he could have forced changes that would have actually benefited people, instead of attacking Doctors who had done nothing wrong, and altering the way they practice medicine for no good reason. He would have earned every million he made as well as my respect and support if he had. But no. Don't confuse him with
that guy. John Edwards is nothing more than an extraordinarily talented opportunistic scumbag, pure and simple.
Of course I'd want him to represent me if I had a legitimate case. No matter; he'd be too busy screwing some innocent doctor or corporation to take that kind of work.
Merry Christmas.
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