http://www.bloggernews.net/117218 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:01:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/117218#comment-477846 Kevin Tipple Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:06:10 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/117218#comment-477846 Edwards was movie star perfect with nothing to back it up as far as I was concerned. And now we know the movie star perfection image was a joke as well. Edwards was movie star perfect with nothing to back it up as far as I was concerned. And now we know the movie star perfection image was a joke as well.

]]> http://www.bloggernews.net/117218#comment-472763 Kenneth MacLean Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:55:16 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/117218#comment-472763 I'll agree with the point, if not the discouraged prospect of Floyd Orr's commentary on the John Edwards peep show. I liked the man's program,but wondered with others about the movie star public package. They don't usually come that pretty? His seeming devotion to a seriously ill wife, his up-from-the-grim grind to millionaire status, was alluring, but almost too seemingly scripted to be real. One wondered who constructed his personal plan for perfection. Is Mr. Orr's dismissal of any intelligence in the American voter valid in the fact that Edwards was at first taken as a "star," (Mr. Orr's seemeing judgement) but then abandoned,perhaps on grounds similar to those I list? The suspicious surprise to me ( and others I've read)is that the story wasn't broken much earlier. Was that part of the "plan"? Mr. Orr's objection to what he sees as the liberal fascination with "diversity," suggests he isn't happy with Barack Obama. Isn't Obama "Right for (his) America?" I had some of the same attitudes toward Obama as I did toward his fallen hero, but his speech on the situation of race in this country convinced me of his genuine understanding of a truth about us that America so badly needs in understanding the world. In that I'll take his "hope" as more than a false dream, though the disappointed and hopeless may yet prevail. I’ll agree with the point, if not the discouraged prospect of Floyd Orr’s commentary on the John Edwards peep show. I liked the man’s program,but wondered with others about the movie star public package. They don’t usually come that pretty? His seeming devotion to a seriously ill wife, his up-from-the-grim grind to millionaire status, was alluring, but almost too seemingly scripted to be real. One wondered who constructed his personal plan for perfection. Is Mr. Orr’s dismissal of any intelligence in the American voter valid in the fact that Edwards was at first taken as a “star,” (Mr. Orr’s seemeing judgement) but then abandoned,perhaps on grounds similar to those I list? The suspicious surprise to me ( and others I’ve read)is that the story wasn’t broken much earlier. Was that part of the “plan”? Mr. Orr’s objection to what he sees as the liberal fascination with “diversity,” suggests he isn’t happy with Barack Obama. Isn’t Obama “Right for (his) America?” I had some of the same attitudes toward Obama as I did toward his fallen hero, but his speech on the situation of race in this country convinced me of his genuine understanding of a truth about us that America so badly needs in understanding the world. In that I’ll take his “hope” as more than a false dream, though the disappointed and hopeless may yet prevail.

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