Tuesday, August 07, 2007

More on the essential emptiness of John Edwards

Firsthand observations about Edwards from previous campaign events by a member of The State's (Columbia SC) editorial board.

Noteworthy:

" Then I saw Mr. Edwards step to an offstage position just behind the bleachers to my left. None of the folks in the “good” seats could see him.

His face was impassive, slack, bored: Another crowd, another show. Nothing wrong with that — just a professional at work.

But then, I saw the thing that stuck with me: As his introduction reached its climax, he straightened, and turned on a thousand-watt smile as easily and artificially as flipping a switch. He assumed the look of a man who had just, quite unexpectedly, run into a long-lost best friend."

3 comments:

  1. I lived in Columbia for three years during my residency training. The State is (was?) a liberal paper. It was exceedingly unusual for the editorial pages of that paper to express scorn toward a Democrat. This is particularly remarkable given the fact that Edwards was born in the state of SC.

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  2. That comment was mine.

    Joe Guarino

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  3. Edwards' campaign is on the fast track to nowhere.

    As a politician I think we will have heard the last of him as he gets kicked to the curb by the power brokers in the Dem party.

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