If Edwards Mentions His Dad Working In A Mill Again I Will Scream

So it looks as though former North Carolina Senator John Edwards did well at the Presidential Debate before the South Carolina primary, and he’s obviously hoping for at least a second place finish. Indeed, while Hillary and Obama went at it hammer and tong, at least before the second part love fest, Johnny Boy could swoop in, score points, and look like, if not an elder, at least a stateseman.
But like the old Russian proverb says, You are my guest but truth is my mother. And so I will say, if John Edwards says his father worked in a mill one more time, I will scream.
Senator, just what is the relevance here? Okay, play up your working class roots, good for you. But give your dad’s place of employment a rest, will you? Once in a debate, okay, but multiple times?
And I might mention that I can’t help but think this whole “helping out poor folks” is phony. That’s right, I said it. If you really cared about helping poor people and you’re a fantastically wealthy lawyer, become a governor! Do you know how much good you could do in your rural state being governor?
I can’t help but nurse the heretical notion that John Edwards sudden concern about poor people is more about how John Edwards can get the nomination than it is about helping poor people.
This whole “I won a senate seat, now I am ready to be President” from both Obama and Edwards bugs me, and I happen to think that a candidate who has not been kicked up and down the block a few times will make big mistakes being a candidate in a national election.
Give the nod for experience to Hillary, at least. Obviously flawed, not terribly likeable as a human being (or at least her image isn’t), when Hillary talks about economics or health care she sounds like she actually knows what she’s talking about. Which, while she might be as wrong as a cow wearing pants in what she thinks, means something is worthwhile about her getting the nomination.