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*** *** *** Fold (but please don't spindle or mutilate) *** *** *** John Edwards, poverty case
Don Surber
Officials at the University of California-Davis figured out how to funnel money to presidential wanna-be John Edwards: Pay him $55,000 to speak to 1,781 students.
That’s 137.5 more haircuts for Edwards.
His subject? Poverty.
Carla Marinucci of the San Francisco Chronicle nailed his millionaire behind: The earnings — though made before Edwards was a declared Democratic presidential candidate — could hand ammunition to his competition for the Democratic presidential nomination. The candidate — who was then the head of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina — chose to speak on “Poverty, the great moral issue facing America,” as his $55,000 topic at UC Davis. ...
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit said Edwards is “fighting poverty one speaking fee at a time.”
Having a millionaire speak about poverty is like having a wino speak about sobriety. ...
Ed Morrissey has more here.
*** Ron Paul Boomlet To Implode In 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ...
Ed Morrissey
I have watched with some amusement as centrist, liberal and uncategorizable blogs attempt to herald Ron Paul as a reasonable conservative, especially after his statement in the last debate that claimed that American foreign policy invited the 9/11 attacks. That blame-America, 18th-century isolationist thinking appeals to a large subset of the voting population, and for the past week we have been treated to an avalanche of paeans to Ron Paul in the blogosphere.
However, Republicans have always known that Ron Paul is a loose cannon waiting to blow up in the face of unsuspecting followers. Some intrepid bloggers, such as Curt at Flopping Aces, have a few more examples of Ron Paul's "truth-telling" that will also surely get the endorsement of these same bloggers. Right?
Eleven years ago, the Houston Chronicle reported that Ron Paul's newsletter highlighted what he saw as a criminal community (emphases mine):
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