Edwards announces for Prez

mylilpony.jpgspicoli.jpgI just noticed the blurb on cable news, John Edwards (trial lawyer-NC) was in the lower 9th in NewOrleans. He announced his candidacy for the ’08 Democrat nomination.
The photo op was framed nicely. Edwards in his starched work shirt and blue jeans, toting a shovel full of dirt, smiling for the cameras as he dutifully pitches the dirt into a pile.

The shovel looked brand new. My guess is the handlers made a quick stop by Home Depot before the photo op.

The first thing that popped in my head was the Katrina photo of Spicoli, frantically trying to keep his fishing boat from sinking with the Red Cup.

Heh™. Priceless.

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14 Responses

  1. Huh. Seems as if it would be more a propos if instead of a shovel, he would be brandishing a lawsuit. Somebody, somewhere definitely needs suing for bad weather and choosing an unfortunate geographic location for one’s domicile.

  2. That’s how “the man of the poor people” with good hair, Edwards made his millions, suing doctors and hospitals for birth defects. And we all know, he is just running to be vice president, but Obama already has that place locked in with Hillary.

  3. Its going to be an interesting circus event to watch in 2008. Quite the cast of characters.

    Hey Nuke!

    Howdy there Swampie, No2Libs, and all!

  4. Hey, Coz!

    Man with machete holds up Wal-Mart. Great. I should have known it was Florida.

  5. Ride…Silky Pony…ride.
    /and get put up wet

  6. There are a lot of qualities that I’d like to see in a leader; causing needless C-sections to avoid lawsuits from unscrupulous lawyers such as himself is not a presidential quality.

  7. He’s from North Carolina. So is the Duke LaCross district attorney. I will never visit that rotten state again.

  8. Take a look at the photos of the “crowd” of reporters and loyal Democrats. When there are no photos of the crowd that means there were about 10 people there.

  9. Well, I like camping up in the NC mountains too much to say that I won’t visit there.

  10. Yeah, kinda like the photo of JohnEffingKerry, in Iraq.

  11. WTF?
    Tony Blair:

    To me, the most remarkable thing about the Koran is how progressive it is. I write with great humility as a member of another faith. As an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, much as reformers attempted to do with the Christian church centuries later. The Koran is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and far ahead of its time in attitudes toward marriage, women, and governance.

    Under its guidance, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands were breathtaking. Over centuries, Islam founded an empire and led the world in discovery, art, and culture. The standard-bearers of tolerance in the early Middle Ages were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in Christian ones.

    A Battle for Global Values.
    Exsqueeze Me?
    Baking Powder?
    What art? What culture? What science or discovery?
    Somebody…please, pull Mr. Blair away from the KoolAid punch bowl. He clearly hasn’t grasped the concepts espoused in the Koran, that are present for any to read.

    Qur’an:9:5
    “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”
    Qur’an:9:112
    “The Believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.”
    Qur’an:9:29
    “Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.”
    Qur’an:8:39
    “Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.”
    Ishaq:324
    “He said, ‘Fight them so that there is no more rebellion, and religion, all of it, is for Allah only. Allah must have no rivals.”
    Ishaq:587
    “Our onslaught will not be a weak faltering affair. We shall fight as long as we live. We will fight until you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge. We will fight not caring whom we meet. We will fight whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains. (Until) We have mutilated every opponent. We have driven them violently before us at the command of Allah and Islam. We will fight until our religion is established. And we will plunder them, for they must suffer disgrace.”
    Qur’an:47:4
    “When you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle (fighting Jihad in Allah’s Cause), smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making (them) captives. Thereafter either generosity or ransom (them based upon what benefits Islam) until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam.”

    …and on and on and…
    This great tolerance of which Mr. Blair speaks, must be the counsel he has gotten, on the Old Moh, before he was forced to flee to Medina.
    A prominent world figure, espousing such useless and harmful info, is not helpful.

  12. See y’all later, time to cheer on the Aggies in the Holiday Bowl.

  13. Well, I can’t really say nothin’ ’bout Nawth Carolina on account of the SwampMan was born there.

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