{"id":349,"date":"2004-07-06T09:52:56","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T16:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/edwards-is-a-brilliant-choice\/"},"modified":"2004-07-06T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T16:52:56","slug":"edwards-is-a-brilliant-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/edwards-is-a-brilliant-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards is a Brilliant Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The selection <\/p>\n<p>of John Edwards as the Democrats Vice President will enrage the Republicans. He&#8217;s a Trial Lawyer, something they hate more than lesbian <\/p>\n<p>socialist welfare mothers on dope. Trial Lawyers are THE enemy (because they hold businesses accountable to their customers and employees <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; something the govenment doesn&#8217;t do anymore).<\/p>\n<p>Edwards is the antithesis of corporate welfare. The Republicans will try to exploit <\/p>\n<p>him as &#8221;anti-business,&#8221; just like liberalism is &#8221;anti-American&#8221; &#8212; a horrible lie.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, Edwards is going to steal the <\/p>\n<p>whole &#8216;optimism&#8217; argument. No one is more optimistic than Edwards. Stand Edwards next to Cheney and pick the one who exudes confidence <\/p>\n<p>in the future.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why Cheney will withdraw and McCain will be Bush&#8217;s new choice for VP. If Cheney can&#8217;t let go of power and <\/p>\n<p>Bush can&#8217;t let go of Cheney&#8217;s hand, they&#8217;re sunk. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The selection of John Edwards as the Democrats Vice President will enrage the Republicans. He&#8217;s a Trial Lawyer, something they hate more than lesbian socialist welfare mothers on dope. Trial Lawyers are THE enemy (because they hold businesses accountable to their customers and employees &#8212; something the govenment doesn&#8217;t do anymore). Edwards is the antithesis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/edwards-is-a-brilliant-choice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edwards is a Brilliant Choice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}