Molly Ivins on John Edwards, August 2003

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3538576, Molly Ivins on John Edwards, August 2003
Posted by jsamuel on Fri Sep-21-07 11:09 AM

Molly Ivins on John Edwards, August 2003
by Drew
Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 09:51:18 AM CDT

I'm neither blessed nor cursed with a photographic memory, but I do remember this - Molly Ivins' view of John Edwards, from her August 2003 column on the Democratic candidates in The Progressive:

John Edwards in the early appearances struck me as almost a little too pretty, a little lite. But he's got a populist streak I like--his daddy spent thirty-seven years working in a North Carolina mill, and Edwards ain't forgot it. Seemed to me he might develop. In a recent speech at Georgetown University, the sumbitch hit a home run. (Look it up.)


Apparently, way back in 2003, before John Edwards supposedly "reinvented" himself as a populist, a fine judge saw a populist in him herself.

And so did I.

more...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/21/62852/7610

Thanks for posting that. I sure miss Molly, I always appreciated her insights.

Julie