John Edwards for president?

Thomas wrote:

My feelings about Edwards are ambivalent. On the one hand, everytime I see him and his trial lawyer smile, I have this strong visceral reaction: "Watch out: vacuum cleaner salesman -- latenight infomercial coming up!" (I know this is totally unfair and subjective. Chief justice John Roberts has a similar trial lawyer body language, but I never have the same reaction to him.) On the other hand, Edwards is talking a lot of sense every time I read him but don't see him. It's almost as if there's an Edwards I read and and an Edwards I watch, and the two have nothing to do with each other.

All of this is pretty weird. I don't really know what to make of John Edwards.

Another famous North Carolina Senator was Sam Ervin, who became famous at the end of his career as chair of the Senate Watergate Committee. Once, many years before, he had stood up to speak, and began by saying: "Now, i'm just an old country lawyer . . . "--at which point, Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas loudly remarked that whenever he heard someone say that, he got a good grip on his wallet.

edgarblythe wrote:

It's obvious the aim here is disruption and not discussion. adios for now. (To Republicans, that is equivelant of "Good-bye for now."

Of course the same could and can and must be said of the hundreds of threads around here which veer rapidly over towards attacking George W. Bush and all things Republican. Doesn't matter what the topic is, it just heads over there whether it is about economics, the weather or any of a number of other topics. Why is it Edgar that you and your pals can dish it out but can never take it when it is served back to you?

As the saying goes, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Sturgis wrote:

edgarblythe wrote:

It's obvious the aim here is disruption and not discussion. adios for now. (To Republicans, that is equivelant of "Good-bye for now."

Of course the same could and can and must be said of the hundreds of threads around here which veer rapidly over towards attacking George W. Bush and all things Republican. Doesn't matter what the topic is, it just heads over there whether it is about economics, the weather or any of a number of other topics. Why is it Edgar that you and your pals can dish it out but can never take it when it is served back to you?

As the saying goes, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

When the aim is to wilfully misconstrue everything a person posts, that is not discussion, it's childish dirt throwing. Say something that makes sense, and we will still deride the Bush bandits, but will at least give you a tad of respect.

Although he may have used a little more finesse, that's basically how he passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. The Democrats had 68 seats in the Senate, as well as a majority of the House. The "Dixiecrats" might have opposed civil rights and voting rights--but old LBJ knew where all the bodies were buried. He was one mean summbitch, that's for sure.

Setanta wrote:

Although he may have used a little more finesse, that's basically how he passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. The Democrats had 68 seats in the Senate, as well as a majority of the House. The "Dixiecrats" might have opposed civil rights and voting rights--but old LBJ knew where all the bodies were buried. He was one mean summbitch, that's for sure.

One of those Dixicrats was Al Gore Sr.
LBJ was awful, he got started in politics by hook & crook, mostly crook, & remained a crook. He even had the napkins & silverware taken off AF 1 for himself, after they brought LBJ back to Tx when his presidency was over. That's the least of his sham of a presidency.

Are you steering us off course? (emoticon removed in the interest of good taste)

You, madame, have as much course as a rudderless schooner in a typhoon.

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Setanta wrote:

Although he may have used a little more finesse, that's basically how he passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. The Democrats had 68 seats in the Senate, as well as a majority of the House. The "Dixiecrats" might have opposed civil rights and voting rights--but old LBJ knew where all the bodies were buried. He was one mean summbitch, that's for sure.

One of those Dixicrats was Al Gore Sr.
LBJ was awful, he got started in politics by hook & crook, mostly crook, & remained a crook. He even had the napkins & silverware taken off AF 1 for himself, after they brought LBJ back to Tx when his presidency was over. That's the least of his sham of a presidency.

AND

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Are you steering us off course? (emoticon removed in the interest of good taste)

Your paranoid delusions about LBJ are hardly more to the point than what you criticized on the part of EB.

Sturgis wrote:

edgarblythe wrote:

It's obvious the aim here is disruption and not discussion. adios for now. (To Republicans, that is equivelant of "Good-bye for now."

Of course the same could and can and must be said of the hundreds of threads around here which veer rapidly over towards attacking George W. Bush and all things Republican. Doesn't matter what the topic is, it just heads over there whether it is about economics, the weather or any of a number of other topics. Why is it Edgar that you and your pals can dish it out but can never take it when it is served back to you?

As the saying goes, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

When the aim is to wilfully misconstrue everything a person posts, that is not discussion, it's childish dirt throwing. Say something that makes sense, and we will still deride the Bush bandits, but will at least give you a tad of respect.

You, madame, have as much course as a rudderless schooner in a typhoon.

LoneStarMadam wrote:

snood wrote:

In texas, the state government is structured so that the Lt Governor has more power. Bush was a figurehead, mostly remembered for presiding over the most death sentences carried out by any state.

That has nothing to do with what you said & what i asked you.
Since Tx is a helluva big state, it isn't hard to imagine that we have had more dp cases. You put the skids on your own argument of Tx governors have no power, only a figurehead. If you know that (& that is true) then how is it Bushs fault that people were executed here? A Tx gov can give a 30 reprive, that's it. Do you know who Bushs Lt Gov was? A democrat.Next.

Perry was not a Republican until 1989.