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Oops. The hand of perfectly-coiffed John Edwards has just been caught in the cookie-jar.
James Taranto frisks Senator Handsome quite nicely before he pulls down his pants and administers a good old-fashioned verbal spanking.
John Edwards is mulling another presidential run two years hence. The Lesser Kedward styles himself an economic populist, which means that he's a zillionaire trial lawyer who is centering his campaign on attacking Wal-Mart, where millions of ordinary Americans shop. Stuff like this makes almost explicable the Democrats' decision to nominate that goofball with the Purple Heart bandages the last time around.
Anyway, a Wal-Mart press release accuses Edwards of hypocrisy:
Just like the millions of Americans who turn to their neighborhood Wal-Mart for their holiday shopping needs, Wal-Mart announced today that former Sen. John Edwards is seeking to be one of the first to get a Sony PlayStation3, one of the most coveted holiday gift items this Christmas season.
Yesterday, a staff person for former Sen. Edwards contacted a Wal-Mart electronics manager in Raleigh, North Carolina to obtain a Sony PlayStation3 on behalf of the Senator's family. Later that night, Sen. Edwards reportedly re-told a homespun story to participants of a United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union-sponsored call about how his son had chided a fellow student for purchasing shoes at Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart welcomes Sen. Edwards to visit his local Wal-Mart store and explore the extensive line of home electronics as well as the Metro7 line shoes for men and boys.
The Company noted the PlayStation3 is an extremely popular item this Christmas season, and while the rest of America's working families are waiting patiently in line, Senator Edwards wants to cut to the front. While, we cannot guarantee that Sen. Edwards will be among one of the first to obtain a PlayStation3, we are certain Sen. Edwards will be able to find great gifts for everyone on his Christmas list--many at Wal-Mart's "roll-back prices."
Don't worry, though, there is an explanation! From the Associated Press:Edwards said a volunteer did so by mistake.
Edwards told The Associated Press that the volunteer "feels terrible" about seeking the game unit at Wal-Mart a day after his boss criticized the company, saying it doesn't treat its employees fairly.
"My wife, Elizabeth, wanted to get a Playstation3 for my young children. She mentioned it in front of one of my staff people," Edwards said. "That staff person mentioned it in front of a volunteer who said he would make an effort to get one. He was making an effort to go get one for himself.
"Elizabeth and I knew nothing about this. He feels terrible about this. He made a mistake, and he knows he should not have used my name," Edwards said.
Edwards said the volunteer was "a young kid" unaware of what he called flawed Wal-Mart policies.
So have a little sympathy for the populist John Edwards. After all, these days good unpaid child labor is hard to find.
Yes, the handsome prez-candidate uses child-labor to do his shopping and then chides his little serf for not being aware of "flawed Wal-Mart policies."
Maybe Hypocrite Edwards should investigate the labor practices of his left-wing-whacko colleague Mark Dayton from Minnesota whose family owns Target, which also has "flawed policies" on the labor and health for employees fronts.
But, of course, Target is anti-Christmas and is run by big Dem nabobs like James A. Johnson [google this lefty robber-baron and find out why George Soros is jealous of his turf] and Richard Holbrooke.
No fault on the Left, especially for its piggy-bank anti-labor chiefs like Nancy Pelosi, who keeps unions out of her restaurant chain and vineyards up there in Napa Country. You could look it up, but I lost the link.
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