Jonathan Last

No Daylight Between Edwards and Dean
June 7th, 2005

Daily Kos points us to John Edwards’ press-release-blog where he retracts his distancing last weekend from Howard Dean:

Howard and I have been saying the same thing about this for years. Hear that? The same thing. For years. Have I ever put it some way that Howard wouldn’t agree with? Probably. And he put it in a way, once, just the other day, that I can’t agree with, since I come from a place where hard-working people, who are better served by the agenda and passion of the Democrats, somehow still vote Republican.

craig June 7, 2005 at 4:24 pm

The “somehow” in that final phrase tells all.

N.S.T June 7, 2005 at 7:31 pm

If you’re gonna make a retraction for purposes of political expediency, maybe you should craft the thing so that your motives aren’t so blatantly transparent?

Bizarro Jack June 8, 2005 at 9:04 pm

I don’t think wanting to say something nice about Republicans is a motive that needs to be concealed.

N.S.T June 8, 2005 at 10:55 pm

I’m not sure he does want to say smoething nice about Republicans. I could be wrong, but isn’t Edwards saying that he doesn’t understand how people could be dumb enough to vote Republican when presented with all of the facts?

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