For all his newfound capitalist prowess, it seems Sen. John Edwards still isn’t familiar with some fairly basic geopolitical facts on the ground:
“I’m going to be honest with you — I don’t know a lot about Cuba’s healthcare system,” Edwards, D-N.C., said at an event in Oskaloosa, Iowa. “Is it a government-run system?”
(ABCNews.com “Political Radar”, Aug. 17)(via Weigel)(disclaimer).
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OK. I may be clueless but I fail to see the connection here to the main theme of OverLawyered. And while he may have printed a large bullseye on himself, it still seems like a cheap shot at one’s opponent.
OBQuiet, do you have any idea what John Edwards did for a living prior to politics?
His career alone is reason enough to mention him here.
Yes I know he made a living as a psychic, channeling the thoughts of the unborn in the courtroom.
But if the fact that a lawyer/politician makes an embarrassingly uninformed remark is all it takes to make this blog, OL might as well just post the congressional record.
The note did not seem to fit the broader context of the site and given Mr Olsen’s affiliation (duly noted in the disclaimer), it seemed more like a quick political side trip and felt out of place. I wanted to point this out though perhaps a private note would have been better.
I enjoy the fact that the topics here stay out of the political arena for the most part. Others may feel differently.
The fact that this uber-trial attorney doesn’t have the slightest clue about where the resources are coming from is illuminating. Does he wonder, too, about where all his verdict winnings came from? Probably not. Kind of like a robber doesn’t really care that the victim worked hard to earn the money stolen, or that it was going to be a present for the victim’s sick wife, etc. Because in the retarded moral vision of the trial bar, which is actually affirmed by legal ethics, the only thing that matters is the plaintiff and the plaintiff’s attorney.