The Carpetbagger on Edwards and Clark

[CarolNYC]

Sorry for those who are looking for something to argue about but this piece doesn't compare or contrast them...just a quick, light read about what the two have been doing lately that I thought I'd pass along....

"Keeping busy, waiting for the later-half of 2007 to roll around

I’ve often wondered what presidential candidates, who have no day job, do for four years. One can’t just go around campaigning for a race that doesn’t exist (I guess they could, but voters wouldn’t respond very well). When it comes to 2008, most of the likely Dem aspirants are plenty busy attending to their professional responsibilities. Senators like Clinton, Kerry, Bayh, and Feingold are tending to their senatorial duties, while governors like Richardson, Warner, Vilsack, will, at a minimum, serve through the end of this year.

So, if you’re John Edwards or Wesley Clark, what exactly do you do with your time? Both of them seem to have crafted productive ways to stay busy."

(snip)

"In the meantime, Edwards has taken a position as head of a new institute tailored to his interests: the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his law degree. Read into this what you want, but Edwards’ position is described by the University as a part-time role, and it has a two-year term."

(snip)

"Clark has a new essay in the Washington Monthly on democracy in the Middle East (it’s quite good, if you haven’t read it); he’ll appear on a Center for American Progress panel discussion on data collection and national security; and tonight Clark will deliver the keynote speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Tribute to Liberators” dinner."

I also like how he says Clark made Perle look ridiculous at the HASC hearings. :)

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/4127.html

[paparush]

1. Swift Boat Lawyers for Truth

Will paint Edwards with the "runaway Tort attorney" brush until he withers and dies with a big shit eating grin plastered to his RFK-esque face.

Which makes me sad, as a North Carolinian, but I don't think he's got the experience or the resume' to win.

[AP]

2. Actually, that's how he won his senate race in '98. He was behind by about

8 points with between 1 and 2 weeks to go. Faircloth ran a commercial explaining to the public the kind of law Edwards practised. Edwards shot up 10 pts in the polls and won the election.

(You should know this if you're a NC'ian.)

I guess voters actually like people who look after the interests of the little guy.

And, damn, I prey that Edwards's lawyering becomes a subject for discussion if he runs for president.

In 2004, the Republicans proved they learned a lesson from 1998 and didn't give Edwards's former clients a chance to tell the public how much they liked him.

[Clark2008]

3. I don't remember him doing too much for the little guy as

a senator though.

While I think his working with the poverty center is great, I still cannot forgive him for what he did to Arab-Americans in his own state - speaking of the MOST little guy after 9/11.

[AP]

4. So, no comment on the reprecussions of Faircloth's trial lawyer ads?