FYI - JE post on dailykos

[MH1]

(John Edwards)

in case anyone wants to comment or ask any questions.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/20/144410/37

[beachmom]

1. Thanks. I didn't comment. Maybe it's just me, but I don't care

for the empty chat format. I think he should have had something to blog about, and then invited comments and questions. The diary just seemed so . . . empty.

[wisteria]

2. Yeah, it reflects the man who wrote it I guess. n/t

[benny05]

4. Or to reflect what others wanted to ask

JRE.

[benny05]

5. Flat to you, but you commented anyway

Transparency here.

[beachmom]

6. Actually, I didn't comment on JE's diary because I was very late

to see it and it was already 600 comments. I did comment on that diary today from somebody who wrote a report about meeting with JE. Somebody said that the ticket should have been JE/JK, which I viewed as an attack on JK, so I responded to that. Although I have problems with JE, I really do try to stick with the issues, which for me is his lack of foreign policy experience (I give Obama a hard time for that, too). Sometimes I talk more frankly here on the JK forum, but "out there", I defended JE against the Walmart attack because I thought it was stupid.

[benny05]

7. And ..

Just as the JK botched joke got more attention than it should have. JRE said that JK didn't need to apologize.

[beachmom]

8. Really? Because that's the first I've heard of him commenting on that.

Do you have a link? Because that would mean a lot if he defended his friend against such trivialities. On policy, experience and qualifications, of course, I think they should go at each other's throats, but not on this stupid stuff.

[benny05]

10. Link

http://www.nbc17.com/news/10215518/detail.html

It was the day he voted absentee, and about the time the flap hit.

[beachmom]

11. Okay -- that was pretty good. I won't bring this up again.

Check it out:

He also expressed sympathy toward his former running mate, John Kerry, who was criticized by the president for suggesting unsuccessful students end up stuck in Iraq.

"This is all politics," Edwards said. "What's happening is the president and the Republicans and they know they're in trouble in this election and they're trying to find anything they can to distract the voter's attention. It's not going to be successful."

[benny05]

3. But you and I enchanged comments today

Just so others know.

And I was not one to trash Senator Kerry.

[karynnj]

9. Apparently one small minded person who had

criticized Kerry for doing nothing finds it inconeivable that some people actually chose to do charity quietly. (though if I were going to make something up would I claim that Lott spoke of it on the Senate floor.)

Fortunately, an Edwards person defended my comment.