Comments on: THE LIST: John Edwards http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/04/23/the-list-john-edwards/ News, Entertainment & Points of View Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:10:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mixed Media » POLITICS: Can you keep a secret? http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/04/23/the-list-john-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Mixed Media » POLITICS: Can you keep a secret? Wed, 09 May 2007 16:23:09 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/?p=160#comment-113 [...] working class folks in t-shirts. Several times since the last election we suggested that venue for Sen. John Edwards, who prefers Bottega and $400 haircuts at girlie salons, instead. Oh, [...] [...] working class folks in t-shirts. Several times since the last election we suggested that venue for Sen. John Edwards, who prefers Bottega and $400 haircuts at girlie salons, instead. Oh, [...]

]]> By: Joe http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/04/23/the-list-john-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Joe Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:48:17 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/?p=160#comment-110 "You don’t want to be on The List. This enumeration is for the jackals and jackasses who have made Alabama and Birmingham a worse place in which to live, who have betrayed their constituents and fellow citizens. Their indiscretions border on the unforgivable." What has John Edwards really done to deserve to be on The List? “You don’t want to be on The List. This enumeration is for the jackals and jackasses who have made Alabama and Birmingham a worse place in which to live, who have betrayed their constituents and fellow citizens. Their indiscretions border on the unforgivable.”

What has John Edwards really done to deserve to be on The List?

]]> By: James butts http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/04/23/the-list-john-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-112 James butts Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:14:00 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/?p=160#comment-112 How about we have a sense of proportion about this whole thing? Bob Riley has done nothing to clean up the endemic corruption at the Alabama Department of Youth Services which is not even willing to protect those in its care from being raped by its guards. Real people have suffered and continue to suffer from abuse and neglect in these facilities while Riley (at whose sole pleasure the people responsible for these outrages serve) does nothing. Such an atrocity is far more severe than this haircut on my list. How about we have a sense of proportion about this whole thing? Bob Riley has done nothing to clean up the endemic corruption at the Alabama Department of Youth Services which is not even willing to protect those in its care from being raped by its guards. Real people have suffered and continue to suffer from abuse and neglect in these facilities while Riley (at whose sole pleasure the people responsible for these outrages serve) does nothing.

Such an atrocity is far more severe than this haircut on my list.

]]> By: Willard http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/04/23/the-list-john-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Willard Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:50:54 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/?p=160#comment-111 Well, well, well. You've added our former junior senator to your little "List." How nice. Your points are well made and certainly he deserves to be on the "List," but for more reasons than you outline. • He only missed 40 of 62 U.S. Senate votes during his presidential campaign year. He found time to publish a book, "Four Trials" during that campaign year but he couldn't show up for his elected office's duties? The year before that presidential campaign period, he attended only 34 percent of meetings, hearings and votes for his assigned Senate committee (Judiciary). That voting record is something the TarHeel state is real happy about. Nice. Fortunately he retired before we could vote him out of office. • In 2004, our would-be president was four months late paying his property taxes on his senatorial estate in Georgetown. Great example of two America's: the poor taxpayers and the rich tax evaders. • He and his wife hate his G-O-P gun toting, Rudi Giuliani-loving neighbor living near Raleigh. Furthermore Johnny's neighbor likes to park mobile homes on his land next to Edwards AND he leaves his broken-down, eyesore of rotting birthplace within sight of the Edwards' mansion. How kindly do Alabamians take to haters of mobile home owners? Since when was it OK for one man to dictate the property habits of his neighbor? Smaller conflicts over property rights have sparked wars. • That TV show "Crossing Over" is a hoax which sucks in unaware housewives greiving from loss, and while that psychic isn't our well-coiffed Johnny-boy, it is close enough to almost matter. • And last but not least, this man would never prance his cancer-infested wife in front of TV cameras just to win a few votes. A North Carolina trial lawyer trying to create a dramatization in hopes of influencing the public? Never. Well, well, well.
You’ve added our former junior senator to your little “List.”
How nice.
Your points are well made and certainly he deserves to be on the “List,” but for more reasons than you outline.
• He only missed 40 of 62 U.S. Senate votes during his presidential campaign year. He found time to publish a book, “Four Trials” during that campaign year but he couldn’t show up for his elected office’s duties?
The year before that presidential campaign period, he attended only 34 percent of meetings, hearings and votes for his assigned Senate committee (Judiciary).
That voting record is something the TarHeel state is real happy about. Nice. Fortunately he retired before we could vote him out of office.
• In 2004, our would-be president was four months late paying his property taxes on his senatorial estate in Georgetown. Great example of two America’s: the poor taxpayers and the rich tax evaders.
• He and his wife hate his G-O-P gun toting, Rudi Giuliani-loving neighbor living near Raleigh. Furthermore Johnny’s neighbor likes to park mobile homes on his land next to Edwards AND he leaves his broken-down, eyesore of rotting birthplace within sight of the Edwards’ mansion. How kindly do Alabamians take to haters of mobile home owners? Since when was it OK for one man to dictate the property habits of his neighbor? Smaller conflicts over property rights have sparked wars.
• That TV show “Crossing Over” is a hoax which sucks in unaware housewives greiving from loss, and while that psychic isn’t our well-coiffed Johnny-boy, it is close enough to almost matter.
• And last but not least, this man would never prance his cancer-infested wife in front of TV cameras just to win a few votes. A North Carolina trial lawyer trying to create a dramatization in hopes of influencing the public? Never.

]]> By: Vivi http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/04/23/the-list-john-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Vivi Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:45:06 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/?p=160#comment-109 yeah but he looks hott. So it's okay. yeah but he looks hott. So it’s okay.

]]> By: K. Whitmire http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/04/23/the-list-john-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-106 K. Whitmire Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:32:58 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/?p=160#comment-106 In response to Kathy's comment: Yes, lots of men get their hair cut in women's hair salons, but the New Hampshire boutique wasn't your typical salon. To quote from the AP story: "According to Designworks' Web site, the salon and spa features a wide variety of beauty and health services, including massages, facials, body polishes, self tanners, and rosemary mint and Caribbean therapy body wraps." So maybe I should have been more specific, with greater detail. It's not a crime to be rich in America, and voters won't hold that against a candidate. It is a faux pas, however, to act like you're rich, and voters will crucify you for that. — K.W. In response to Kathy’s comment: Yes, lots of men get their hair cut in women’s hair salons, but the New Hampshire boutique wasn’t your typical salon. To quote from the AP story:

“According to Designworks’ Web site, the salon and spa features a wide variety of beauty and health services, including massages, facials, body polishes, self tanners, and rosemary mint and Caribbean therapy body wraps.”

So maybe I should have been more specific, with greater detail.

It’s not a crime to be rich in America, and voters won’t hold that against a candidate. It is a faux pas, however, to act like you’re rich, and voters will crucify you for that.

— K.W.

]]> By: DaveP http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/04/23/the-list-john-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-108 DaveP Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:38:46 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/?p=160#comment-108 Give Edwards a break. At least he successfully fought big business on behalf of the little guy. Thank God for trial lawyers. Give Edwards a break. At least he successfully fought big business on behalf of the little guy. Thank God for trial lawyers.

]]> By: Kathy http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/04/23/the-list-john-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Kathy Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:55:21 +0000 http://bhamweekly.com/blog/?p=160#comment-107 I have to cry foul on one of these things -- my husband gets his hair cut at a salon that caters mostly to women, too. He doesn't pay $400, though. I have to cry foul on one of these things — my husband gets his hair cut at a salon that caters mostly to women, too. He doesn’t pay $400, though.

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