OT: John Edwards

Found this while doing a search for "Gadabout Gaddis".


The Truth about John Edwards
I'd like to introduce you to my neighbor.

I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and for several years I've lived around
the corner from Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards. My neighbor John
has been in the news a good deal lately, but it's hard to tell about the man
himself from the coverage. Maybe I can help you get to know him better.

Even several years ago, before he was elevated to the national stage, my
neighbor John didn't socialize much with other neighbors. He didn't gather
with other neighbors at the Fourth of July and he didn't come out to the
sledding hills to watch the kids play after a snow. My neighbor John
preferred to jog through

the neighborhood by himself. There's no sidewalk on Alleghany Drive, John's
street in Raleigh, and if you drove past him as he was jogging on the road
and didn't slow down enough for his taste he'd flip you the bird.
Even after he became a U.S. Senator, he'd still come home to Raleigh every
once in a while, would still jog through the neighborhood, and would still
flip the occasional bird to passing cars. He last showed me his middle
finger about four years ago.

Since then, my neighbor John is rarely in town. When he is home, though, we
in the neighborhood all know it. My neighbor John invited reporters from TV,
radio, and print news organizations to come to his house in January 2003 for
the announcement of his Presidential bid. He didn't want any news vans
parked on his property -- in fact, he made sure all the cameras and
reporters waited in the street at the bottom of his driveway. That way
everyone could get good footage of him strolling down the driveway to make
his announcement, young children in tow. The news vans drove into the yards
of John's neighbors and parked there. I heard two families ended up
resodding their damaged yards, and John never apologized to anyone, much
less offered any compensation. The family across the street from my neighbor
John has since put up posts at their property line to try to keep that sort
of thing from happening again.
The appearance was good for my neighbor John. Nobody else seems to matter to
him.

Since then, when my neighbor comes home (as he did July 10, to be
interviewed with John Kerry for "60 Minutes"), Raleigh police officers block
off the street. Those of us who live near him end up coming and going to and
from our homes on a circuitous route, on a bad, unsurfaced road Forsyth
Street has been closed to through traffic, except when my neighbor is in
town, because the road has been ripped up for installation of new gas and
sewer lines. My neighbor's street is a public, city-maintained street, and
it is the best way to get to homes just north of his. If my neighbor is
around, though, apparently none of the rest of us can use the street at all.
It's good for my neighbor John. Nobody else seems to matter to him.

My neighbor John has been a very successful trial lawyer, but his practice
of law sometimes seems more like extortion. A friend of mine is a doctor in
Raleigh. He recently spoke with another doctor, an anesthesi ologist, who
was named in a suit filed by my neighbor John. Apparently a surgeon at a
local hospital had made a mistake, and my neighbor John represented the
injured patient. Not only did my neighbor John sue the doctor who made the
mistake, but also sued the hospital and a string of others, including the
anesthesiologist. There was no problem with the anesthesia -- the
anesthesiologist had done absolutely nothing wrong.
His attorney said so in a meeting with my neighbor John. John's neighborly
response was that he couldn't care less if the doctor had done nothing
wrong. That wasn't the point. The point was that clients come to my neighbor
John because of his record of success and his reputation for thoroughness.
Every defendant in a suit he files pays, regardless of whether they are
actually guilty or not. My neighbor John demanded a settlement of $250,000,
and said his firm was willing to spend $2 million to get it. The doctor's
insurance company promptly paid the $250,000.

The rate of growth in North Carolina's medical malpractice insurance rates
is among the highest in the nation. The total cost of health care rises with
those rates. My neighbor John's slimy extortion is part of the reason.

Forget about right or wrong, guilt or innocence. My neighbor John did what
was best for himself. Nobody else seemed to matter.
My neighbor John may be a trial lawyer, but in front of juries he also
claims to be something of a psychic. You see, my neighbor John specializes
in cases involving the death or serious injury of children.

He claims to receive messages from dead or brain-damaged children, and the
messages are much clearer and more specific than those received by the
famous "psychic" who nearly shares my neighbor's name.

When a child has been killed or is otherwise unable to speak for him or
herself, my neighbor John says he has the ability to "channel" that child.
He tells juries he feels the child inside him, and that he has messages from
that child, which he relays to jury members. He tells juries about the
car-accident death of his own son, Wade, and speculates that he may have
received the ability to "feel" the souls of dead or injured children because
of the close relationship he still feels with his son.

It sounds hokey and more than a little creepy, but it seems to play well
with juries, and results in very high jury awards. These awards have made my
neighbor extremely wealthy. He's so wealthy that he created a corporation of
which he is the only member, and pays himself most of his earnings as
corporate dividends, not as salary or wages. Medicare taxes are not levied
on dividend income, so my neighbor has avoided paying $600,000 into the
Medicare system since 1995 by setting up this tax shelter. But he says
others aren't paying their fair share of Medicare taxes.

It's good for my neighbor John, and nobody else seems to matter.

My neighbor made a lot of promises on his way to the Senate. He promised s
trong support for our military, but then voted against body armor, combat
pay, and better health care for our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. He
promised to support traditional North Carolina values, but then voted to the
left of Ted Kennedy on partial-birth abortion, taxes, property rights, and a
host of other issues. We in North Carolina feel betrayed. My neighbor John
figuratively gave his constituents the middle finger while he ingratiated
himself to Tom Daschle and the rest of the Democratic Party leadership.

My neighbor announced many months ago that he would not seek reelection,
because he knows he's unpopular in North Carolina and would lose by a huge
margin. According to a poll released this week, when the Kerry/Edwards
ticket was announced, support for Kerry in North Carolina went down, not up.

We North Carolinians know John Edwards. We've been betrayed by him, and we
do not support him.

But as he broke his promises to us, he gained favor with the Democratic
Party leadership. Now he's a political star. I guess turning his back on the
people he claims to represent has worked out well for my neighbor, John
Edwards. Nobody else seems to matter.
This may be a bit lengthy, but worth reading so that you will get a better
picture of what is lining up to represent the people of America, if we are
ready for this. You may draw your own conclusions whether or not this is
what you would prefer over what we have.

Best to you, always

Clete

Re: OT: John Edwards

In article <>, Ed says...
>
>Found this while doing a search for "Gadabout Gaddis".
>
>
>The Truth about John Edwards
>I'd like to introduce you to my neighbor.
>
>I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and for several years I've lived around
>the corner from Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards. My neighbor John
>has been in the news a good deal lately, but it's hard to tell about the man
>himself from the coverage. Maybe I can help you get to know him better.
>
>Even several years ago, before he was elevated to the national stage, my
>neighbor John didn't socialize much with other neighbors. He didn't gather
>with other neighbors at the Fourth of July and he didn't come out to the
>sledding hills to watch the kids play after a snow. My neighbor John
>preferred to jog through
>
>the neighborhood by himself. There's no sidewalk on Alleghany Drive, John's
>street in Raleigh, and if you drove past him as he was jogging on the road
>and didn't slow down enough for his taste he'd flip you the bird.
>Even after he became a U.S. Senator, he'd still come home to Raleigh every
>once in a while, would still jog through the neighborhood, and would still
>flip the occasional bird to passing cars. He last showed me his middle
>finger about four years ago.
>
>Since then, my neighbor John is rarely in town. When he is home, though, we
>in the neighborhood all know it. My neighbor John invited reporters from TV,
>radio, and print news organizations to come to his house in January 2003 for
>the announcement of his Presidential bid. He didn't want any news vans
>parked on his property -- in fact, he made sure all the cameras and
>reporters waited in the street at the bottom of his driveway. That way
>everyone could get good footage of him strolling down the driveway to make
>his announcement, young children in tow. The news vans drove into the yards
>of John's neighbors and parked there. I heard two families ended up
>resodding their damaged yards, and John never apologized to anyone, much
>less offered any compensation. The family across the street from my neighbor
>John has since put up posts at their property line to try to keep that sort
>of thing from happening again.
>The appearance was good for my neighbor John. Nobody else seems to matter to
>him.
>
>Since then, when my neighbor comes home (as he did July 10, to be
>interviewed with John Kerry for "60 Minutes"), Raleigh police officers block
>off the street. Those of us who live near him end up coming and going to and
>from our homes on a circuitous route, on a bad, unsurfaced road Forsyth
>Street has been closed to through traffic, except when my neighbor is in
>town, because the road has been ripped up for installation of new gas and
>sewer lines. My neighbor's street is a public, city-maintained street, and
>it is the best way to get to homes just north of his. If my neighbor is
>around, though, apparently none of the rest of us can use the street at all.
>It's good for my neighbor John. Nobody else seems to matter to him.
>
>My neighbor John has been a very successful trial lawyer, but his practice
>of law sometimes seems more like extortion. A friend of mine is a doctor in
>Raleigh. He recently spoke with another doctor, an anesthesi ologist, who
>was named in a suit filed by my neighbor John. Apparently a surgeon at a
>local hospital had made a mistake, and my neighbor John represented the
>injured patient. Not only did my neighbor John sue the doctor who made the
>mistake, but also sued the hospital and a string of others, including the
>anesthesiologist. There was no problem with the anesthesia -- the
>anesthesiologist had done absolutely nothing wrong.
>His attorney said so in a meeting with my neighbor John. John's neighborly
>response was that he couldn't care less if the doctor had done nothing
>wrong. That wasn't the point. The point was that clients come to my neighbor
>John because of his record of success and his reputation for thoroughness.
>Every defendant in a suit he files pays, regardless of whether they are
>actually guilty or not. My neighbor John demanded a settlement of $250,000,
>and said his firm was willing to spend $2 million to get it. The doctor's
>insurance company promptly paid the $250,000.
>
>The rate of growth in North Carolina's medical malpractice insurance rates
>is among the highest in the nation. The total cost of health care rises with
>those rates. My neighbor John's slimy extortion is part of the reason.
>
>Forget about right or wrong, guilt or innocence. My neighbor John did what
>was best for himself. Nobody else seemed to matter.
>My neighbor John may be a trial lawyer, but in front of juries he also
>claims to be something of a psychic. You see, my neighbor John specializes
>in cases involving the death or serious injury of children.
>
>He claims to receive messages from dead or brain-damaged children, and the
>messages are much clearer and more specific than those received by the
>famous "psychic" who nearly shares my neighbor's name.
>
>When a child has been killed or is otherwise unable to speak for him or
>herself, my neighbor John says he has the ability to "channel" that child.
>He tells juries he feels the child inside him, and that he has messages from
>that child, which he relays to jury members. He tells juries about the
>car-accident death of his own son, Wade, and speculates that he may have
>received the ability to "feel" the souls of dead or injured children because
>of the close relationship he still feels with his son.
>
>It sounds hokey and more than a little creepy, but it seems to play well
>with juries, and results in very high jury awards. These awards have made my
>neighbor extremely wealthy. He's so wealthy that he created a corporation of
>which he is the only member, and pays himself most of his earnings as
>corporate dividends, not as salary or wages. Medicare taxes are not levied
>on dividend income, so my neighbor has avoided paying $600,000 into the
>Medicare system since 1995 by setting up this tax shelter. But he says
>others aren't paying their fair share of Medicare taxes.
>
>It's good for my neighbor John, and nobody else seems to matter.
>
>My neighbor made a lot of promises on his way to the Senate. He promised s
>trong support for our military, but then voted against body armor, combat
>pay, and better health care for our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. He
>promised to support traditional North Carolina values, but then voted to the
>left of Ted Kennedy on partial-birth abortion, taxes, property rights, and a
>host of other issues. We in North Carolina feel betrayed. My neighbor John
>figuratively gave his constituents the middle finger while he ingratiated
>himself to Tom Daschle and the rest of the Democratic Party leadership.
>
>My neighbor announced many months ago that he would not seek reelection,
>because he knows he's unpopular in North Carolina and would lose by a huge
>margin. According to a poll released this week, when the Kerry/Edwards
>ticket was announced, support for Kerry in North Carolina went down, not up.
>
>We North Carolinians know John Edwards. We've been betrayed by him, and we
>do not support him.
>
>But as he broke his promises to us, he gained favor with the Democratic
>Party leadership. Now he's a political star. I guess turning his back on the
>people he claims to represent has worked out well for my neighbor, John
>Edwards. Nobody else seems to matter.
>This may be a bit lengthy, but worth reading so that you will get a better
>picture of what is lining up to represent the people of America, if we are
>ready for this. You may draw your own conclusions whether or not this is
>what you would prefer over what we have. TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT WHAT WE "HAVE"!
>
>Best to you, always
>
>Clete
>
>
>
>

Re: John Edwards

GWB was the best choice this time. Kerry will want to try again in 2008,
but I think the democrats are going to go for Hillary. This means a
Republican landslide. It is to bad that Arnold can't run; he is doing a
great job here in California.


"Ed" <> wrote in message
news:
> Found this while doing a search for "Gadabout Gaddis".
>
>
> The Truth about John Edwards
> I'd like to introduce you to my neighbor.
>
> I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and for several years I've lived around
> the corner from Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards. My neighbor John
> has been in the news a good deal lately, but it's hard to tell about the
> man himself from the coverage. Maybe I can help you get to know him
> better.
>
> Even several years ago, before he was elevated to the national stage, my
> neighbor John didn't socialize much with other neighbors. He didn't gather
> with other neighbors at the Fourth of July and he didn't come out to the
> sledding hills to watch the kids play after a snow. My neighbor John
> preferred to jog through
>
> the neighborhood by himself. There's no sidewalk on Alleghany Drive,
> John's street in Raleigh, and if you drove past him as he was jogging on
> the road and didn't slow down enough for his taste he'd flip you the bird.
> Even after he became a U.S. Senator, he'd still come home to Raleigh every
> once in a while, would still jog through the neighborhood, and would still
> flip the occasional bird to passing cars. He last showed me his middle
> finger about four years ago.
>
> Since then, my neighbor John is rarely in town. When he is home, though,
> we in the neighborhood all know it. My neighbor John invited reporters
> from TV, radio, and print news organizations to come to his house in
> January 2003 for the announcement of his Presidential bid. He didn't want
> any news vans parked on his property -- in fact, he made sure all the
> cameras and reporters waited in the street at the bottom of his driveway.
> That way everyone could get good footage of him strolling down the
> driveway to make his announcement, young children in tow. The news vans
> drove into the yards of John's neighbors and parked there. I heard two
> families ended up resodding their damaged yards, and John never apologized
> to anyone, much less offered any compensation. The family across the
> street from my neighbor John has since put up posts at their property line
> to try to keep that sort of thing from happening again.
> The appearance was good for my neighbor John. Nobody else seems to matter
> to him.
>
> Since then, when my neighbor comes home (as he did July 10, to be
> interviewed with John Kerry for "60 Minutes"), Raleigh police officers
> block off the street. Those of us who live near him end up coming and
> going to and from our homes on a circuitous route, on a bad, unsurfaced
> road Forsyth Street has been closed to through traffic, except when my
> neighbor is in town, because the road has been ripped up for installation
> of new gas and sewer lines. My neighbor's street is a public,
> city-maintained street, and it is the best way to get to homes just north
> of his. If my neighbor is around, though, apparently none of the rest of
> us can use the street at all.
> It's good for my neighbor John. Nobody else seems to matter to him.
>
> My neighbor John has been a very successful trial lawyer, but his practice
> of law sometimes seems more like extortion. A friend of mine is a doctor
> in Raleigh. He recently spoke with another doctor, an anesthesi ologist,
> who was named in a suit filed by my neighbor John. Apparently a surgeon at
> a local hospital had made a mistake, and my neighbor John represented the
> injured patient. Not only did my neighbor John sue the doctor who made the
> mistake, but also sued the hospital and a string of others, including the
> anesthesiologist. There was no problem with the anesthesia -- the
> anesthesiologist had done absolutely nothing wrong.
> His attorney said so in a meeting with my neighbor John. John's neighborly
> response was that he couldn't care less if the doctor had done nothing
> wrong. That wasn't the point. The point was that clients come to my
> neighbor John because of his record of success and his reputation for
> thoroughness. Every defendant in a suit he files pays, regardless of
> whether they are actually guilty or not. My neighbor John demanded a
> settlement of $250,000, and said his firm was willing to spend $2 million
> to get it. The doctor's insurance company promptly paid the $250,000.
>
> The rate of growth in North Carolina's medical malpractice insurance rates
> is among the highest in the nation. The total cost of health care rises
> with those rates. My neighbor John's slimy extortion is part of the
> reason.
>
> Forget about right or wrong, guilt or innocence. My neighbor John did what
> was best for himself. Nobody else seemed to matter.
> My neighbor John may be a trial lawyer, but in front of juries he also
> claims to be something of a psychic. You see, my neighbor John specializes
> in cases involving the death or serious injury of children.
>
> He claims to receive messages from dead or brain-damaged children, and the
> messages are much clearer and more specific than those received by the
> famous "psychic" who nearly shares my neighbor's name.
>
> When a child has been killed or is otherwise unable to speak for him or
> herself, my neighbor John says he has the ability to "channel" that child.
> He tells juries he feels the child inside him, and that he has messages
> from that child, which he relays to jury members. He tells juries about
> the car-accident death of his own son, Wade, and speculates that he may
> have received the ability to "feel" the souls of dead or injured children
> because of the close relationship he still feels with his son.
>
> It sounds hokey and more than a little creepy, but it seems to play well
> with juries, and results in very high jury awards. These awards have made
> my neighbor extremely wealthy. He's so wealthy that he created a
> corporation of which he is the only member, and pays himself most of his
> earnings as corporate dividends, not as salary or wages. Medicare taxes
> are not levied on dividend income, so my neighbor has avoided paying
> $600,000 into the Medicare system since 1995 by setting up this tax
> shelter. But he says others aren't paying their fair share of Medicare
> taxes.
>
> It's good for my neighbor John, and nobody else seems to matter.
>
> My neighbor made a lot of promises on his way to the Senate. He promised s
> trong support for our military, but then voted against body armor, combat
> pay, and better health care for our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. He
> promised to support traditional North Carolina values, but then voted to
> the left of Ted Kennedy on partial-birth abortion, taxes, property rights,
> and a host of other issues. We in North Carolina feel betrayed. My
> neighbor John figuratively gave his constituents the middle finger while
> he ingratiated himself to Tom Daschle and the rest of the Democratic Party
> leadership.
>
> My neighbor announced many months ago that he would not seek reelection,
> because he knows he's unpopular in North Carolina and would lose by a huge
> margin. According to a poll released this week, when the Kerry/Edwards
> ticket was announced, support for Kerry in North Carolina went down, not
> up.
>
> We North Carolinians know John Edwards. We've been betrayed by him, and we
> do not support him.
>
> But as he broke his promises to us, he gained favor with the Democratic
> Party leadership. Now he's a political star. I guess turning his back on
> the people he claims to represent has worked out well for my neighbor,
> John Edwards. Nobody else seems to matter.
> This may be a bit lengthy, but worth reading so that you will get a better
> picture of what is lining up to represent the people of America, if we are
> ready for this. You may draw your own conclusions whether or not this is
> what you would prefer over what we have.
>
> Best to you, always
>
> Clete
>
>
>
>

Re: John Edwards

"NoEd" <> wrote

> GWB was the best choice this time. Kerry will want to try again in 2008,
> but I think the democrats are going to go for Hillary. This means a
> Republican landslide. It is to bad that Arnold can't run; he is doing a
> great job here in California.

I almost always vote Republican but I like Hillary. I don't know if it means
landslide or not, you might be surprised.

Re: John Edwards

NoEd wrote:

>GWB was the best choice this time.

GWB was obviously one of the worst choices of all times, and the only
people who voted for him were ignorant, stupid, crazy, or evil. Never
choose a boy to do a man's job.

>I think the democrats are going to go for Hillary.

Women don't like her, so she has no chance unless Oprah explicitly
orders them to support Hillary.

>This means a Republican landslide.

The Republicans have only McCain, so far, and they don't like him.

>It is to bad that Arnold can't run; he is doing a
>great job here in California.

Not great but good, but even if he were eligible, the far right would
prevent him from being nominated as they did with McCain in 2000.