John Edwards Solution To The War On Terror: Send In The Peace Corps
 
As they say, you can’t make this stuff up. First there were the $400 haircuts, then the $500,000 this champion of the impoverished earned for providing consulting services to a Hedge Fund (work he performed so that he could study the effects the financial markets have on poverty). To add insult to injury among those who are of sound mind, he proclaims the War on Terror a “Bumper Sticker.” Now, he has added another loony proposal in his inexorable lurch leftward (I almost forgot to add to the list, free college for everybody).
Senator Edwards believes the only way to fight the War on Terror is to send in the Peace Corps.
The plan Mr. Edwards presented yesterday — which he dubbed "A Strategy to Shut Down Terrorists and Stop Terrorism Before It Starts" — calls for a 10,000-person "Marshall Corps" to deal with issues ranging from worldwide poverty and economic development to clean drinking water and micro-lending. He said investing in those areas would shore up weak nations and help ensure that terrorism does not take root there. That, he said, would allow the country to stop potential terrorists before they even join the ranks. There are "thousands committed to violence" today, he said, and America needs to use all of its tools to go after them. But he said millions more people are "sitting on the fence" about whether to join those ranks. "We have to offer them a hand to our side instead of a shove to the other side of that fence," he said.
Edwards’ far left platform, in conjunction with his breathtaking hypocrisy and insincerity raises a central question: why are so many democratic primary voters enamored of this clown?
Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that, as a recent poll  revealed, a not insignificant chunk of democrats honestly believe that President Bush knew of the 9/11 attacks beforehand. Given this unflattering stigma, it’s not hard to imagine that these same democratic voters would buy into Edwards left wing, “two America’s” shtick.
In light of his numerous and inexplicable campaign gaffes to date, were Edwards to secure his party’s nomination, can  you imagine the target he would make for his Republican opponent in the general election?
 
Sunday, June 10, 2007
By Johnny K