Now that John Edwards has quit the race for POTUS he is everybody’s best friend, shining example, sacred talisman of the angry white guy nutroots and the savior of the Democrat Party, at least according to left-wing polemist Paul Krugman.
Sister Toldjah is not convinced:
Yeah, that sweet, selfless John Edwards! When he’s not getting $400 haircuts, hiring and defending foul-mouthed liberal bloggers, pandering to the 9-11 Truther crowd, starting self-beneficial poverty centers, working for an evil hedge-fund operator in order to “learn about financial markets” and how they “link to poverty”, shamelessing using his wife’s cancer as a fundraising tool, and equally shamelessly using Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter to score cheap political points, promising to make disabled people like Christopher Reeve walk again, and channeling unborn babies as a trial lawyer, he’s inspiring the top tier candidates in the Democratic party who kicked his behind in every primary state except Iowa to bring “real ideas” to the table.
Yeah, what a loss.
QC Examiner 
Naw he just quit because like a good little greedy trial lawyer he smelled the lawsuit money to be made in Mississippi after they install those scales out side of eating joints.
During his speech, he made the statement of driving under an overpass that had “hundreds of homeless living there” – when asked where that overpass was, he said nothing.
One overpass with “hundreds?” The man is a liar and an opportunist. He has raped the economy through lawsuits and made himself rich – and NOW he is the advocate against poverty. He has hurt every man, woman and child in the United States by adding costs (legal costs and additional costs to avoid further lawsuits) to business.
I’d love to see his tax return and see how much he gives to charity to help those poor unfortunates that he talks so much about. My guess is that it would be little more than the Gore-goose egg…
Edwards really is a stupid fool. That angry-white-man-populism shtick went out in the 30s—-didn’t he notice how well Gore’s angry populist message worked in ’00?
Back in ’04, I kinda liked Edwards, since he was the Obama candidate of that time and refused to participate in all the angry, hysterical Bush-bashing reindeer games the other Dem candidates played.
I have no idea what caused him to do a 180 and turn angry rich populist in ’07, but that is just what he did.
Most of us want to lift up the poor in this country, but only an angry white man like Edwards would endorse a policy of lifting up the poor by punishing the rich. Did Edwards really think corporations have no hand in the properity of this country, including the poor? Even eeeevil WalMart gives jobs to many who would not have them otherwise.
I hope Edwards’ humiliating defeat (he’s more or less been running for POTUS since ’03) will cause others to think twice before they resurrect his divisive angry white man populism.
It seemed like every time the man gave a speech, he had to give the following…
It makes me think of young Sabrina, a single mother that I met in Omaha (or Hobocken, or Peoria)…
I appreciate the ‘trying to personalize the message’ schtick, but it is so unbelievably transparent!
Well Josh, if you actually listened to one of Edwards’ speeches, you are a better man than I am. hee!hee!
I was so turned off by his divisive, angry faux-populist, class-warfare rhetoric, I don’t believe I ever bothered to listen to what all his shrillness was about.
Which is why I’m curious to see what policies Hillary and Obama will promote in order to carry on Edwards'”anti-poverty” crusade, which they swore they would do after he dropped out of the race.