John Edwards awful ad
This is the single worst political ad I can remember.
The ad starts like this…
“If your looking for heroes, don’t look to me” (Really John, don’t look to the smarmy trail lawyer, um, ok?)
“Don’t look to Elizabeth” (You know, my sick wife)
“We have support, we have healthcare, we have the American people behind us” (roughly 10% of them anyway)
“Elizabeth and I decided in the quiet of a hospital room” (remember her, she’s sick)
This ad is so shamelessly using his wife’s cancer to boost his campaign. It is sick. This guy is so smarmy he makes Bill Clinton seem like Mr. Sincerity.
November 14, 2007 4:53 pm 
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Yeah, what a “smarmy trial lawyer.” Let’s look at some of the folks this “smary trial lawyer” represented:
- a 5-year-old girl who was disemboweled, but survived, after being caught and suctioned by a wading pool’s defective drain, despite the fact that the manufacturer of the defective drain faced 12 prior lawsuits involving similar claims yet continued to make and sell drain covers lacking warnings;
- an infant who suffered severe brain damage after an obstetrician failed to moderate the use of Picotin after the infant displayed clear fetal distress;
- a client who suffered permanent brain and nerve damage after a doctor prescribed a drug overdose of anti-alcoholism drug Antabuse during alcohol aversion therapy;
- a 45-year-old whose severely lacerated foot ultimately required amputation because his doctor delayed and failed to properly treat it;
- the estate of a man killed by a truck driven for a company who paid its drivers by the mile, thereby encouraging unsafe conduct;
Yeah, he sure sounds like the kind of person that meant to use his wife’s cancer as a political ploy.
We don’t need a man like Edwards as President.
We need a President who stamps out “frivolous” lawsuits, like the lawsuits this “smarmy trial lawyer” brought on behalf of the individuals mentioned above.
JC,
Did you listen to the ad? Are you saying he isn\’t using his wife\’s illness? Come on.
As for all the wonderful clients of his, you conveniently left off his most infamous. You know, the dead infant he claimed was communicating through him to a jury,
\”She speaks to you through me,\” Edwards went on in his closing argument. \”And I have to tell you right now — I didn\’t plan to talk about this — right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She\’s inside me, and she\’s talking to you.\”
Yea, what a man of character and intregrity.
Kevin
If we are to judge a person’s character and integrity by his words, as you do, it’s interesting to see you so coldly refer to a young victim of medical malpractice as a “dead infant.” Also, your sarcastic characterization of this “dead infant” and Edwards’ other injured clients as “wonderful” says a lot about you.
As for Edwards’ reference to his wife, I took it as simply a compelling way to convey a moment of realization about his commitment to health care.
As for Edwards’ trial techniques, they apparently worked.