You just can’t make this stuff up.
The Associated Press moved a story Wednesday evening, before John Edwards was scheduled to deliver his address to the Democratic National Convention in Boston, that included excerpts from his remarks and those of his wife Elizabeth, who was to introduce him.
Some choice selections from the AP story:
The headline: Edwards says reject “negative politics,” slams GOP
Unify by dividing: Edwards was being introduced by his wife, Elizabeth, who said in a text of her address: “We deserve leaders who allow their faith and moral core, our faiths and moral core, to draw us closer together, not drive us farther apart.”
Then two paragraphs down:
Ahead of the address, Edwards said it would touch on the theme of “two Americas” – one for the rich, the other for everyone else – that became a staple of his stump speeches last winter during his unsuccessful but well-received bid for the Democratic nomination.
Politicians often get into trouble with logic and metaphors when they try to make non-ideological arguments. They should just say that their policies would be different from the other guy’s, explain why, and let the voters choose.
