Silky whines: The big kids are stealing from me!
posted at 12:35 pm on October 3, 2007 by Bryan
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If he was talking about Joe Biden, well, it wouldn’t be the first time theft came up in association with his name.
But he’s not. John Edwards is accusing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama of stealing all his ideas.
The criticisms represent an apparent change in strategy for the Edwards campaign. Thus far this year it has directed most of its fire at Clinton’s campaign.
Edwards’s campaign also blasted Obama for parroting the former senator in a foreign policy speech he gave Tuesday in which he said he wanted to work towards ending nuclear proliferation. They said the senator has followed Edwards on a number of issues this campaign year, including healthcare, poverty and now nuclear proliferation.
As if nuclear freeze hadn’t been bubbling around liberal brains for decades. Maybe John Edwards stole it from John Kerry? Whatever.
“If you need any more proof that John Edwards is shaping the race for the Democratic nomination, you don’t need to look any further than Senator Obama, who has followed Edwards’s lead on healthcare, poverty and, today, eliminating nuclear weapons,” Murray said in an e-mail to The Hill. “Next thing you know, he’ll be rooting for the Tar Heels.”
Now they’ve just gone too far. The Tar Heels, at least in basketball, are a force for good in the world. John Edwards is not. The Tar Heels stand up for truth and justice and resolutely oppose those devils from Duke. John Edwards channels dead children to fool juries into awarding ridiculously huge financial judgments that he gets rich from. I am outrageously outraged that Edwards is sullying the good name of one of the NCAA’s most dominant programs.
Anyway, Obama fires back.
Obama noted Edwards’s dismay with the timing and language of the healthcare plans during last month’s Democratic debate in New Hampshire.
“I think John deserves credit for his proposal,” Obama said. “I know that he feels that he put out his plan first. You know, Harry Truman put something out 60 years ago for universal healthcare. I wrote about it in a book that I wrote last year, a plan very similar to John’s. The issue is not going to be who has these particular plans. It has to do with who can inspire and mobilize the American people to get it done and open up the process.”
Or, it has to do with the fact that liberalism hasn’t had a new idea in about 60 years so its adherents keep bringing up the same old ideas.
That’s how I see it.
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Texyank on October 3, 2007 at 12:39 PM
So Edwards accuses the only black guy on the campaign trail of stealin’ and likin’ basketball… what a racist. Next thing you know, he’ll claim that Obama is taking all the white women voters.
rw on October 3, 2007 at 12:46 PM
How come Silky et al. never credit Marx and Stalin for their corrupt ideas?
Valiant on October 3, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Dose silky have his panties in a bunch.
Why don’t you stop whining and just hold your breath and turn blue until they stop stealing your stolen ideas or better yet sue them Mr. Ambulance chaser women
Mojack420 on October 3, 2007 at 12:51 PM
Liberals weren’t trying to kick ROTC programs off campus 60 years ago, so they have that going for them…
BadgerHawk on October 3, 2007 at 12:52 PM
Only fair since Edwards has followed Obama and Hillary in the polls since the very beginning.
Seriously, how idiotic is this? A bad idea is a bad idea no matter where it comes from. Now Edwards wants to claim all these bad ideas as his own? Lotsa luck with that!
highhopes on October 3, 2007 at 12:52 PM
heh. good one.
BadgerHawk on October 3, 2007 at 12:53 PM
Oh dear. How ever will these Democrats reconcile themselves with the nutroots mantra of “Good Democrats don’t attack other Democrats”?
Didn’t Obama steal some nutroots kid’s MySpace page?
gabriel sutherland on October 3, 2007 at 12:59 PM
He is such a whiny weiner!
Pam on October 3, 2007 at 1:03 PM
As if Edwards has ideas worth stealing. The libs have one playbook and they aren’t going to rest until it is implemented. Nevermind that some of their ideas have already shown to be failures in other countries. They seem to think they have the magic touch to make it work.
The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over expecting to get a different result every time, or something like that.
Yes, I think we can say the libs are insane.
Mallard T. Drake on October 3, 2007 at 1:15 PM
Elizabeth is on her way to your house right now to wax your a$$.
saint kansas on October 3, 2007 at 1:22 PM
That picture really encapsulates the pathetic nature of the lefts candidates. Makes me want to vomit.
americaslaststand on October 3, 2007 at 1:27 PM
Life’s a Campaign…here’s more liberal “success” for you.
Numenorean on October 3, 2007 at 1:29 PM
Valiant, right-on-the-freakin’-money! Extremely well said. Wouldn’t you just love to hear the reporter respond with that follow up question?
Zetterson on October 3, 2007 at 1:31 PM
I already posted this once today, but it seems appropriate here too… Somebody call the waaaaahmbulance!! Poor wittle Johnny. Don’t you just know he was always the last one picked for dodgeball and Red Rover?
Bingo — and I don’t think they have ever had a good one.
lan astaslem on October 3, 2007 at 1:34 PM
Its kinda grossin’ me out. It looks as if FlipFlop just gave a little tongue to silky…and he liked it. They both liked it.
shooter on October 3, 2007 at 1:37 PM
Yeah, that whining will really inspire people to vote for him as leader of the free world. You go, Silky.
thirteen28 on October 3, 2007 at 1:44 PM
Hey!!! Let’s be FAIR!!!
I agree that it should be ILLEGAL for anyone to repeat any of Silky’s ideas!!!
landlines on October 3, 2007 at 2:06 PM
“That’s MY toy.”
Whiner.
desertdweller on October 3, 2007 at 2:08 PM
Hillary and Barack stealing Silky’s ideas? Too funny.
If anything, the opposite is true.
What do you all think about a mail-in campaign where we all send Silky a little piece of cheese… to go with that whine, of course.
Lawrence on October 3, 2007 at 2:10 PM
I bet next they’ll steal his ideas on Green energy Production, and CO2 emission reduction.
Oops, here I am reporting his brand new never before seen ideas before he gets a chance to run them before an audience. How rude of me to sneak in and be the first to recommend expanding wind and solar power as an environmentally friendly goal that will go over well with Democrats.
Pretend I didn’t say anything… this is Silky Pony’s time to take a never before heard of issue and really shine.
gekkobear on October 3, 2007 at 2:20 PM
John Edwards is positioning himself as the candidate of organized labor and the union men and women who work with their back and their hands (not that John Edwards ever did that kind of work himself!). Yet when he was running for Senate back in 1998, John Edwards stated on C-Span that he was in favor of North Carolina keeping its “right to work” law. That position can be defended quite reasonably and it is a moderate view of labor law. But it is hated by organized labor and now that Edwards is running for president and does not have to care about manufacturers and jobs in the moderate/conservative state of North Carolina, he is taking whatever positions on labor and employment issues that union bigwigs want him to. Any change in views from Mitt Romney is the subject of endless fodder in the media. Yet any member of the MSM could easily obtain the S-Span footage when C-Span was following Edwards around in his ‘98 Senate campaign and easily find his quote supporting “right to work” law. Mr. Edwards would be exposed as someone who was not always the stalwart supporter of organized labor and as one who took the same position as the National Association of Manufacturers. My guess is that nobody in the MSM will ever bother to catch Senator Edwards’ grabbag of inconsistencies.
Larraby on October 3, 2007 at 2:26 PM
Edwards is perfectly consistent: he always takes the position which maximizes his own revenue (as any good trial lawyer would).
landlines on October 3, 2007 at 2:33 PM
How about a big Iranian Man-Kiss?
You know Kerry ain’t getting any sweet ketchup at home. He’s got the look of love for Breck-O-La.
Hening on October 3, 2007 at 3:01 PM
So true. I’ve noticed their stale mantra of “blah, blah, blah ….. for the children” is ringing louder and with more frequency the closer we get to the election.
Same old same old. Unfortunately, a lot of the sheeple fall for their ruse and vote the same clowns back into office for 60 years.
fogw on October 3, 2007 at 3:03 PM
Eh, let them set to and eat one another. Keeps them busy and out of the Senate. If we can keep our candidates from following the same pattern and on message, we’ll be in good shape next Spring.
El Cazador on October 3, 2007 at 3:41 PM
You’ll do well to steer clear of ACC ball characterizations. The Hatfield’s and McCoy’s got nothin on ACC rivalries and ESPECIALLY the ‘Big 4′ in NC (UNC, Wake, Duke, NC State).
MOST of us consider Carolina to be a force of evil (most of my family went there, my best friend. . . etc. etc). I consider a Carolina loss to be as wonderful as any other team winning. That’s mainly because of the positive press they get for everything they do. If they walk across the street without getting hit by a bus, the media says ‘look at that athleticism for not getting hit by the bus. . . did you see that?!’
Their football team is 1-4, yet every week there’s a news story about ‘the game’ that centers on ‘how UNC almost won’. They think they are entitled to more than the Democrats. As far as I’m concerned there is only one game each year that determines whether or not we have a good season. Carolina – nothing else matters, but we MUST beat Carolina in spite of the media, the huge fanbase (bandwagon mostly), the all-American players, and whatever facility the state government can discover.
GO WAKE FOREST DEMON DEACONS – Defending ACC football Champs!
ThackerAgency on October 3, 2007 at 3:50 PM
Ha Ha! Very well done.
baldilocks on October 3, 2007 at 4:20 PM
Maybe he can get his wife to hit BO with her purse, sorta like the Ruth Buzzi of the 21st century.
swami on October 3, 2007 at 4:39 PM
Who? The Messiah, that’s who!
Entelechy on October 3, 2007 at 4:55 PM
This guys whole campaign seems to be “they” are doing “this”
to me. FNC, Coulter, now the other dims. Two Americas? Yes Silky’s head and everyone that’s plotting against him.
PowWow on October 3, 2007 at 5:37 PM
Some friends and I were thinking, if he’s whining about this, what will he be like as President? Here is what we believe that future would hold:
Top Ten Things Silky Pony Will Whine About in the White House
10) The carpet in the White House gives him shin splints because it isn’t plush enough.
9) Reporters continue to photograph him from his “bad side” even though it has now become unlawful to do so.
8) The cotton candy machine he has installed on Air Force One doesn’t produce fluffy enough cotton candy.
7) Petraeus won’t walk his dog.
6) Maybelline sends him a congratulatory basket, and the mascara chafes him. He whines, “Is this the best they can do for the President of the United States? Get Max Factor on the phone!”
5) Congress keeps passing the bills he vetoes. (Don’t they know he invented the veto?)
4) The poor people he used to demonstrate his poverty platform keep calling him. They just don’t understand that there are just too many poor people for him to actually do anything about poverty.
3) The press is just so mean, asking him all those questions. Don’t they know his wife had cancer?
2) Gordon Brown won’t return his phone calls regarding the worldwide global warming epidemic.
1) Vice President Hillary’s cackle DRIVES HIM NUTS!
Numenorean on October 3, 2007 at 5:46 PM
WAH-mbulance chaser.
ZK on October 3, 2007 at 9:55 PM
The #1. thing Edwards will complain about?
That he cannot get any interns to come into the Oval Office.
Mcguyver on October 4, 2007 at 12:51 AM
Obama and Edwards are both saying they’re all for nuclear proliferation.
It sounds good in speeches and in interviews, however; neither will explain exactly how they intend to achieve such a lofty goal. The current situation with Iran and North Korea should be proof enough that just wishing the nukes away will not make it so.
At every turn Iran thumbs it’s nose at the international community saying it’s their right to develop nuclear “power”. At least North Korea was smart about giving up its program. Get concessions from the US and then sell the technology to Syria.
So maybe one day these two fine candidates will explain exactly how they plan to achieve the goal of proliferation.
In the meantime “Peace through superior firepower“.
SPIFF1669 on October 4, 2007 at 8:34 AM
Why would he do that when he could just hit BO with his purse all by himself?
jedijson on October 4, 2007 at 9:58 AM
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