No Prophets Without Honor

Hit and Run, a regular commenter here, ran one by James Taranto and made Best of the Web last Friday with the "I Feel Pretty" riff on John Edwards:

Reader Jeff Dobbs calls our attention to this passage from the lovely and talented   John Edwards's infamous Council on Foreign Relations speech:

But I will also remove any civilian or military officer who stifles debate or simply tells me what I want to hear.

This leads Dobbs to imagine the following Oval Office dialogue:

Officer: President Edwards, your hair looks very nice today.

Edwards: Really? You think so?  

Officer: Yes sir, I do.  

Edwards: No, come on. You're just telling me that because you think     I want to hear it.  

Officer: Honestly, sir, you think I would do that?  

Edwards: Yes! You're fired.  

(Officer leaves)  

Edwards (pulls out compact, looks at self in mirror, smiles): Well,     I had to fire him, but I'm not going to argue with him.

Edwards also notes in the speech, "Since the end of the Cold War, folks here at CFR and elsewhere have been engaged in an effort to be the next George  Kennan and define the era." Edwards may not quite be Kennan's intellectual   match, but at least his smile is brilliant.

Comments

[Jane]

WEll well well - H&R finally getting what he deserves! You go guy!

[MikeS]

I am unable to understand the Democrat Language. I don’t understand how you can support the troops by withholding financial support. I don’t understand how you can be patriotic by agreeing with the enemy. I don’t understand how we can fight al Qaeda by redeploying away from them. I don’t understand how you can learn about poverty by consulting for a hedge fund.

I don’t even understand the way they use the word consult. I was a consultant for a while, but companies paid me to teach them. I didn’t know I could charge them for teaching me stuff.

[Maybeex]

Taranto has been able to acquire a taste for H&R. :-0

Good job, Hit-man.

[Jeff Dobbs]

TM, thanks, ::blush:: And especially thanks for using the term "regular commenter", rather than "obsessive" or "addicted"

H&R finally getting what he deserves!

I can assure you that I am neither tarred and feathered nor in jail.

[Other Tom]

I yield to no man in my high regard for the estimable regular commenter H&R. (I'm an unyielding kind of guy.)

[PatrickR]

Wasn't it Edwards who called for Memorial Day to be used as an anti-war protest day:

ORCAS ISLAND, San Juan County — Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.

Charred flag tatters were found still attached to 33 small flag standards at Woodlawn Cemetery, while 46 of the standards were found empty Sunday, authorities said.

[sophy]

I do not know how to use the cheap mabinogi ; my friend tells me how to use.

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