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The Not-So-Pretty Boy

by Debra J. Saunders

John Edwards is done.

The pretty-boy candidate always was the biggest phony at any Democratic debate. He was the $400-haircut poster boy for poverty. The 28,000-square-foot mansion owner who preached about global warming. The candidate who demanded that other Democrats swear off accepting contributions from Fox News baron Rupert Murdoch, after he pocketed a $500,000 advance — with an extra $300,000 for expenses — from Murdoch's HarperCollins. The man who ran as the doting h ...

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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:29 PM

Ma'am does it ever occur to you that many of these government people represent all form and no relationship? That is what happens when marriages die, that is what happens when clubs die, and that is what happens when societies die. The forms stand, built for the ages, with massive impediments later generations will marvel at and water color. The rings stay on, an icy silence decends, and the relationship dies. Some times the idea of marriage, or of party, or of society is more durable than the people within. Some times it is like the skeleton that frightens people long after the fear has left it. We all need structures. We all need forms. We all need ideas to keep our relationships focused. But once the form has killed the relationship; no amount of more form will bring it back. Isn't that what you see here? Isn't that why you hate your neighbor, and do unto others first? We've lost that loving feeling. Oha,oh that loving feeling. All that is holding us together, and off of each others throats is this idea called America. You seem to celebrate some ones failure of relationship. What does that do? Does that prove your point? Isn't a tragedy for him a tragedy for all?... I think we are going through the same thing as nation. We are going through a breach of faith that has been long in the making. Only the scale is different from what Mr. Edwards is going through with his wife and children. His is not a worse tragedy or more personal. We all have a lot of feeling invested in this relationship called America. So what do you think? Shall we continue indefinetly with the abuse? Will we play this game of dominance and submission till we drop? Will we blame each other like so many co-dependents, and justify violence? Hasn't the truth suffered more than any of us? Isn't it time that we drink some draught of honesty and say to each other: Darling, It is Over. There is no we the people. There is only you and me, and its time to get to Zeeero. Thanks... Sweeney

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