Saturday, July 26, 2008
Disconnected mouth sides
When are public figures going to ingest thoroughly that the modern media will not let anyone get away with putting oneself forward as one kind of person while actually being another? It's taken a while despite years of rumors but I feel some relief to know that John Edwards' glib, smarmy, slick surface - which gave many of us a feeling of being sold a bill of goods, as they say - turns out indeed to be false. He's not, after all, the devoted husband and unwaveringly loyal peachy keen guy he said he was. All those pontifications about helping your neighbor and the glory of the common man were the bunch of hogwash they felt like. I don't personally care if he's had a million affairs but it's pretty rotten to Elizabeth (although yes it is her problem and not ours). What it also is, however, is yet another example of a politician with two disconnected sides of a mouth and no way for us to know which side to trust, if either. And that is the important reason any of us should care.
Labels: disappointments, politics
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