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| John Edwards - Bush Is "worst president of our lifetime" |
| 2006-05-21 |
| AKA 'Still bitter after all these years'... May 21, 2006 — - Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., says George W. Bush is the "worst president of our lifetime," and "absolutely" worse than Watergate-tainted President Richard M. Nixon. In an exclusive appearance on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," the former presidential and vice presidential contender said of Bush, "He's done a variety of things -- things which are going to take us forever to recover from. "You have to give Bush and Cheney and gang credit for being good at politics -- you know, good at political campaigns," Edwards added (don't you mean 'better than you and Kerry'? - Ed.). "They're very good at dividing the country and taking advantage of it. What they're not good at is governing, and it shows every single day in this administration. And the country is paying a huge price for that." The former senator, pitching his "college for everyone" program in rural North Carolina, also responded to recent criticism by Mary Cheney, Vice President Cheney's lesbian daughter. In "Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life", Cheney, the 37-year-old second daughter of the vice president and second lady, labeled Edwards as "complete and total slime" for congratulating Cheney and his wife during their 2004 vice presidential debate for "embrac[ing]" their daughter's sexual orientation. Edwards did not back down, telling Stephanopoulous, ABC News' chief Washington correspondent, "I think what I said then was appropriate. And I do believe that it was in a very partisan political environment. We were in the middle of a very hot campaign, very close campaign." Mary Cheney, a close political advisor to her father, told ABC News "Primetime" anchor Diane Sawyer in May that she seriously contemplated quitting the 2004 campaign over the Bush's opposition to gay marriage. "I struggled with my decision to stay," she said. Edwards told "This Week": "What happened … is that the vice president had mentioned in several public appearances the fact that he had a gay daughter, had talked about some differences in policy that he had with the president. He was asked a question in the debate where that was referenced by the moderator, Gwen Ifill. He responded. I said that actually the fact that they had a gay daughter and embraced her is something that should be applauded for. He said thank you." Mary Cheney has claimed in her book that her father was acting. "He didn't seem like he was acting," Edwards told Stephanopoulos, "although you never know with the vice president." Mary Cheney has since returned to private life, working at AOL and living with her longtime partner, Heather Poe, in Virginia. With regard to her father, Edwards continued to level sharp criticism. "It is not an accident that he's unbelievably poorly thought of," Edwards said. "He is one of -- if not the -- principal architects of this disaster in Iraq. He put us on an energy path that the American people are paying an enormous price for right now. He paid little to no attention to making sure the government was prepared to respond to the kind of disaster that hit our Gulf Coast. We've got a health care crisis going on, he's had no proposal of any kind that I know of. And people don't trust him anymore, which is understandable. I wouldn't trust him." Edwards made the pitch for a Democratic president in 2008, claiming the Bush has "intentionally ignored" the law and constitution in the NSA wiretapping controversy. "If I were in the Senate, I would vote for censure," over that controversy, Edwards said. "Again, I don't think this is where I'd spend my energy, but if I had an up-or-down vote, I'd vote for it." Rest at link. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #12 I think Edwards and Stephanopoulos are lesbian lovers. Think about it. Who's the butch ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-05-21 20:16 |
| #11 Lots of I hate him but not one solution to any issue. Typical loser crap. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-05-21 18:38 |
#10 Former Sen. John Edwards,What - he wasn't born until after Clintoon left office? Who knew? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-21 16:49 |
| #9 Thankfully we were spared having John Kerry's My Little Pony as the best hair of any vice president ever. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-05-21 14:42 |
| #8 He must have been doing his hair from 1976 - 1980. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2006-05-21 14:22 |
| #7 Perfesser - are you talking to Edwards or Stephanopolos? Not that it makes a difference. Edwards could have been talking into a mirror. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-05-21 14:18 |
| #6 "Bush displeases us. He defies our majesty and our personal will. He is not humbled before our personage as we demand. We no longer tolerate his impudence and insist that he cut it out. We are not amused." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-21 14:09 |
| #5 Pretty boy, don't you have some hairdressing to do, or something? |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2006-05-21 13:27 |
| #4 If I were in the Senate... Doubtful. Even as a senator, you were never that Johnny boy. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-05-21 13:11 |
| #3 The breck girl is running for '08 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-21 12:33 |
| #2 The Carter fiasco brought us the islamisc-fascist embedded into Iran of which the world is reaping the consequences of daily. Let's throw in the economy too. Carter left it headed to the toilet. GWB got one already heading south and now has it higher than when it was given to him, that's with a major war and biblical level natural disasters. |
| Posted by: Wholuth Spaque2188 2006-05-21 12:29 |
| #1 I didn't realize he was so young that he couldn't remember Carter. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-05-21 12:07 |