Not This Time, Edwards. Former Democratic Senator from North Carolina John Edwards, who ran for Vice President on Kerry's ticket, has announced his intention to seek the Presidency in 2008. Not so fast, buddy.
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Edwards seems a very decent man, whose heart is in the right place. But he's too young, and, more importantly, he's from the South. For the past 17 years we have had nothing but a string of Presidents from the South, and it's got to stop. Indeed, beyond that unbroken string, four of the last five presidents, going back to 1977, have been from the South — that is, from states that were part of the hideous conspiracy against decency called the "Confederacy". I'm tired of it. I don't care how well qualified or how decent John Edwards may be, we need a break. The North must rise again.
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Edwards is young enuf to wait another four or eight years. It's time for the Democrats AND Republicans to nominate Northerners in 2008. Not Westerners. Certainly not Southerners. What matters most in politics is who holds office, and what that person's perspective is. We've had enuf of the Southern and Western perspective with Bush One, Bush Two, Clinton, Reagan, and Carter. It's time for someone with a Northern sensibility to steer the ship of state. Share the wealth.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,990 — for Israel.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 3:11 PM