2004 Soap Box Archives

Disparity 10/08/04

I watched the Vice Presidential debates last night and I’m more convinced than ever that if we’re going to have them they should be in the tried and true tradition of debating, where the participates actually take the gloves off and have discourse with each other, asking their own questions and responding to each other on whatever subject they want to emphasize.

Of course, there would have to be time restrictions on the asking and answering of questions but I think we’d get more than the superficial look we’re getting now.

Vice President Cheney came off just like he has for the last twenty years, dry but in control, stolid but feisty, a little abrasive when the situation called for it.

John Edwards, to me came off as what he is, a trial lawyer and I found some contradictions if not hypocrisies in what he had to say.

For instance, he said that John Kerry would pursue and destroy terrorists wherever they existed. Is that not what our troops are doing now in Iraq and if he really meant what he said about destroying terrorists what makes this the wrong war at the wrong time.

He also pounded the Bush Administration about the rising cost of health care. Well Mr. Edwards and his ilk are one of the prime
motivations for the rise of health care. His multimillion dollar lawsuits, in conjunction with other trial lawyers have raised the cost of malpractice insurance to the point that doctors are being driven out of business or at least out of town and having to screen their patients, denying care to some of the sickest for fear of a malpractice law suit.

I am certainly not against inept or careless doctors being sued
when they harm someone’s health but where do you think a big part of the money goes which is won in these lawsuits? If you think real hard I think you could figure it out.

If you’d like to get an insight on some of these trial lawyers read a book by John Grisham entitled “King of Torts.” While fictional it exposes the greed and seedy methods of many of the class action lawsuits where the lawyers pocket most of the money.

To be truthful, the thought of John Edwards being a heartbeat
away from being the leader of the free world is a little scary to me. It’s really hard to believe that he could be the kind of hardcore leader we need.

It’s hard for me to imagine how he would react to a 9-11 situation.
It’s hard to see him in the roll of a military leader and his and Kerry’s affinity for the United Nations is downright troubling.

Mr. Edwards comes off as a likable sort of guy in a down home Southern sort of way and whether it’s facade or fact, that alone doesn’t qualify him to hold the second most sensitive job in the free world.

Pray for our troops

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels