June 26, 2007

• Political Catch-22

  It's too bad Elizabeth Edwards isn't a politician. She's refreshingly open and tough and forthright with her convictions.  On the other hand, if she were a politician, she probably wouldn't be open and tough and forthright.  Politics and pandering are pretty inseparable these days, at least for national politicians, who must forge broader and broader coalitions of increasingly diverse people.  Unfortunately, this often means "The lowest common denominator."

  But let me engage in a little Liz Love nonetheless.

  She was here for Pride weekend in San Francisco, and made it unambiguously clear that she supports equal marriage rights.  She also, in what I think is a classy way, made it clear that her views were her own and that her husband's views were different from hers.  "[He's] struggling with this," she said. 

  John admitted his difference of opinion, and acknowledge -- gasp! -- that they disagree from time to time! I think I can remember the days, especially prior to Clinton, where a spouse's deviation from her husband's ideological orthodoxy was considered, somehow, a weakness in a leader.  Oddly, it's not their divergent views that make him seem weaker, it's his own actual views:  "She actually says what she thinks...But I'm not quite where Elizabeth is yet."  Unfortunately, his candor is revealing, at least in terms of the dissembling we've come to expect in our leaders.  Wither integrity? I guess not for the Presidency.  Also revealing was his depiction that "where" Elizabeth is is a destination, a journey.  And that he's not there "yet."  The impression with being on his way "there" is a nice bone to throw, but I'm tired of bones.  They've been picked clean already.

  Finally, Elizabeth vs Ann Coulter.  Coulter is possibly one of my least favorite pundits  shills entertainers liars ho's people, who has an almost pathological interest in cutting down the Edwards family.  The video this link takes you to is of Elizabeth Edwards asking Coulter to please stop doing things like mocking the Edwards' mourning of their dead son to score political points in a sham "debate" of ideas.  Whoah.

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