April 11, 2005
Temper Tantrum
John "Oliver Twist" Edwards makes some noise, but does anyone hear him?
John Edwards has made some published remarks, scattershooting on topics from Terri Schiavo to the 2008 election.
Edwards is frankly not terribly relevant these days - a one term Senator who never caught on in the primary election cycle and didn't much help his ticket in the general cycle is not really a deep reservoir of notable thoughts.
Of the 2008 election, he thinks the notion that Hillary is the Democrat front runner is "ridiculous". Interesting, because in 2008 Hillary will have been re-elected to the Senate, an accomplishment Edwards wasn't up to the task of, and as an ex-first lady and power broker in the Democrat party, it doesn't take much math skill to add all of that up.
Little Lord Fauntleroy goes on to remark that he would have voted against the nominations of Condoleeza Rice and Alberto Gonzales for State and AG respectively, and would oppose the nomination of John Bolton as UN Ambassador. Which begs two remarks - the first one being that he could have voted against them if he'd had the sack to run for re-election to the Senate rather than run for the White House as a pretty-boy lightweight with no resume or executive branch experience. The second one is - since when did the Senate assume it was it's job to merely vote on party lines for candidates? You'd think, considering the fact the President was just re-elected a few short months ago, that he could choose his cabinet and expect general acquiesence from the minority party except in extraordinary instances.
Edwards is another political zombie - a man whose political career is dead but occassionally moves about and acts like it's alive...
Posted by MEC2 at April 11, 2005 06:28 PM