October 15, 2004
I'D KILL TO WALK AGAIN:
An Edwards Outrage (Charles Krauthammer, October 15, 2004, Washington Post)
After the second presidential debate, in which John Kerry used the word "plan" 24 times, I said on television that Kerry has a plan for everything except curing psoriasis. I should have known there is no parodying Kerry's pandering. It turned out days later that the Kerry campaign has a plan -- nay, a promise -- to cure paralysis. What is the plan? Vote for Kerry.This is John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately, for personal gain, raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable.
John Kerry can raise the dead? Posted by Orrin Judd at October 15, 2004 11:46 AM
Perhaps, but he doesn't seem too interested in saving the living.
Posted by: Peter B at October 15, 2004 11:52 AMMaybe next year Edwards can substitute host for Pat Robertson' on The 700 Club. (Is that still around?)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at October 15, 2004 12:09 PMSenator Gantry. I like that. It's got kind of a ring to it.
Posted by: joe shropshire at October 15, 2004 12:42 PMReally. May as well turn water into wine, and plump out some loaves and fishes, as long as we're healing the lame. And then walk over the water to convince our "allies" to help up in Iraq, too.
Isn't Krauthammer a paraplegic?
Posted by: Twn at October 15, 2004 1:31 PMAnd if the cure doesn't work, I'll represent them in a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
Posted by: Jeff at October 15, 2004 3:09 PMIt's a Frankenstein scenario - kedwards can make you whole by cannibalizing parts from others.
Posted by: M. Murcek at October 15, 2004 3:29 PMHe doesn't raise the dead, but I hear he does a cool walk on perrier trick.
Posted by: AML at October 15, 2004 3:32 PMI'm just shocked they buried Christopher Reeve in his wheelchair to begin with.
Posted by: John at October 15, 2004 3:34 PM>John Kerry can raise the dead?
Of course. He's a God. The media says so.
Posted by: Ken at October 15, 2004 5:02 PMEdwards continued: "...and walk again, walk to the polls and vote three, four times for John Kerry, then return to the graveyard until the next Democratic campaign..."
Posted by: Just John at October 15, 2004 5:17 PMOf course, and they'll vote for him on Nov 2nd too...
Posted by: TimF at October 15, 2004 6:46 PMAh, Utopia at lasr!
Posted by: at October 15, 2004 11:43 PMKerry actually does a pretty good impression of being raised from the dead himself.
Posted by: Josh Silverman at October 16, 2004 8:15 AMWhy else would folks call him Lurch?
Posted by: Uncle Bill at October 16, 2004 10:31 AMSnake Oil has done some wonderous things.
Posted by: genecis at October 16, 2004 2:55 PM