great question

Someone at work brought up a good point that's blatantly obvious to anyone who knows anything about greed and the crop of blowhards pursuing the presidency. His line of thought was something like this: John Edwards talks a lot about reforming health care...about making it accessible to all Americans...about driving prices down so we can all afford to go to the doctor...yet me made many of his fistfulls of dollars by bringing huge lawsuits against doctors...thus he bears huge responsibility for the problem we have on our hands today...and yet we're supposed to believe he's the guy who fill fix the problem? Heck, he's part of the problem. He perpetuated the problem throughout his career. Now, anyone, please do tell, why the heck should I think this guy of all people is the hero I need to rescue me from the health care woes I'm in?

Amazing...Edwards seems a bit similar to someone's description of Mitt Romney I read recently. The guy lies to you, knows he's lying to you, knows you know he's lying to you, knows you know he knows he's lying to you, and yet he does it anyway! No shame whatsoever. He lies to your face and doesn't even try to hide it, yet thinks if he smiles enough and acts sincere enough you'll bite. And you know what's more grating? If it didn't work so freakin' much of the time they wouldn't keep doing it. Um...hello? Fellow Americans? Should it occur to more than a handful of us that we're getting played over and over and over? Guess not...oh well...

Speaking of the whole universal health care craze, Edwards' stance is far from unique. This, of course, makes him exactly like every other fool out there who fails to understand that actions (mandating the costs and policies of health care) have reactions and consequences (less doctors, worse health care, less timely health care, rampant abuse of a system that lacks penalties for overuse, a HUGE bill to taxpayers who may have stupidly thought the system would be "free," etc.) -- which is why he's a politician in the first place I suppose. It's always easy to promise stuff and sometimes easy to implement stuff, but it's never easy to deal with the fallout from one's bad choices. Ain't nuthin' for free, folks, especially not when the gummint is involved.