[lit-ideas] Re: Edwards
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:41:25 -0500
Thank you, Carol, for your endorsement of Kucinich. I thought I was the only
one in the world in love with him. To me he's the most authentically genuine
grade A human being seriously involved in national politics that I've ever
known.
He's the Mr. Smith goes to Washington myth made tantalizingly almost real --
but, of course, it'll never happen. Appearance trumps truth every time.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: carol kirschenbaum
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 2:44 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Edwards
Julie posted this a couple of days ago, re: Edwards:
"It is incredible to me that someone running for the office of President,
claiming to be profoundly interested in health care, poverty, etc., would spend
$500 on a hair trim."
ck: If you want someone who walks the walk he talks, try Kucinich. Once
again, he's not considered a "serious choice" (except by Robert Scheer on NPR,
maybe) because he's not tall, handsome, and rich. And well-groomed, well cared
for, as will be the nation if he's elected president. Or so goes the rationale.
I give him a pass. He's a presidenntial candidate and the director of the North
Carolina Center for Poverty at UNC for the past few years. Low on the hypocrisy
scale, as these things go.
As for George W., he may do his own hair (this I truly doubt, btw), but he
spends more than $4,000 per suit, according to an article about his Washington
tailor in the New Yorker about a year ago. I'll say this much for him: he's
well-tailored.
Carol
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