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Posted by Administrator on August 03, 2004 at 15:37:41:
Written by B. T. Nicholson a neighbor of John Edwards
Subject: Meet my neighbor
I'd like to introduce you to my neighbor. I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and for several years I've lived around the corner from Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards. My neighbor John has been in the news a good deal lately, but it's hard to tell about the man himself from the coverage. Maybe I can help you get to know him better.
Even several years ago, before he was elevated to the national stage, my neighbor John didn't socialize much with other neighbors. He didn't gather with other neighbors at the Fourth of July and he didn't come out to the sledding hills to watch the kids play after a snow. My neighbor John preferred to jog through the neighborhood by himself. There's no sidewalk on Alleghany Drive, John's Street in Raleigh, and if you drove past him as he was jogging on the road and didn't slow down enough for his taste he'd flip you the bird.
Even after he became a U.S. Senator, he'd still come home to Raleigh every once in a while, would still jog through the neighborhood, and would still flip the occasional bird to passing cars. He last showed me his middle finger about four years ago.
Since then, my neighbor John is rarely in town. When he is home, though, we in the neighborhood all know it. My neighbor John invited reporters from TV, radio, and print news organizations to come to his house in January 2003 for the announcement of his Presidential bid. He didn't want any news vans parked on his property -- in fact, he made sure all the cameras and reporters waited in the street at the bottom of his driveway. That way everyone could get good footage of him strolling down the driveway to make his announcement, young children in tow. The news vans drove into the yards of John's neighbors and parked there. I heard two families ended up re-sodding their damaged yards, and John never apologized to anyone, much less offered any compensation. The family across the street from my neighbor John has since put up posts at their property line to try to keep that sort of thing from happening again.
The appearance was good for my neighbor John. Nobody else seems to matter to him. Since then, when my neighbor comes home (as he did July 10, to be interviewed with John Kerry for "60 Minutes"), Raleigh police officers block off the street. Those of us who live near him end up coming and going to and from our homes on a circuitous route, on a bad, unsurfaced road. Forsyth Street has been closed to through traffic, except when my neighbor is in town, because the road has been ripped up for installation of new gas and sewer lines. My neighbor's street is a public, city-maintained street, and it is the best way to get to homes just north of his. If my neighbor is around, though, apparently none of the rest of us can use the street at all.
It's good for my neighbor John. Nobody else seems to matter to him.
My neighbor John has been a very successful trial lawyer, but his practice of law sometimes seems more like extortion. A friend of mine is a doctor in Raleigh. He recently spoke with another doctor, an anesthesiologist, who was named in a suit filed by my neighbor John. Apparently a surgeon at a local hospital had made a mistake, and my neighbor John represented the injured patient. Not only did my neighbor John sue the doctor who made the mistake, but also sued the hospital and a string of others, including the anesthesiologist. There was no problem with the anesthesia -- the anesthesiologist had done absolutely nothing wrong. His attorney said so in a meeting with my neighbor John. John's neighborly response was that he couldn't care less if the doctor had done nothing wrong. That wasn't the point. The point was that clients come to my neighbor John because of his record of success and his reputation for thoroughness. Every defendant in a suit he files pays, regardless of whether they are actually guilty or not. My neighbor John demanded a settlement of $250,000, and said his firm was willing to spend $2 million to get it. The doctor's insurance company promptly paid the $250,000.
The rate of growth in North Carolina's medical malpractice insurance rates is among the highest in the nation. The total cost of health care rises with those rates. My neighbor John's slimy extortion is part of the reason.
Forget about right or wrong, guilt or innocence. My neighbor John did what was best for himself. Nobody else seemed to matter.
My neighbor John may be a trial lawyer, but in front of juries he also claims to be something of a psychic. You see, my neighbor John specializes in cases involving the death or serious injury of children. He claims to receive messages from dead or brain-damaged children, and the messages are much clearer and more specific than those received by the famous "psychic" who nearly shares my neighbor's name.
When a child has been killed or is otherwise unable to speak for him or herself, my neighbor John says he has the ability to "channel" that child. He tells juries he feels the child inside him, and that he has messages from that child, which he relays to jury members. He tells juries about the car-accident death of his own son, Wade, and speculates that he may have received the ability to "feel" the souls of dead or injured children because of the close relationship he still feels with his son.
It sounds hokey and more than a little creepy, but it seems to play well with juries, and results in very high jury awards. These awards have made my neighbor extremely wealthy. He's so wealthy that he created a corporation of which he is the only member, and pays himself most of his earnings as corporate dividends, not as salary or wages. Medicare taxes are not levied on dividend income, so my neighbor has avoided paying $600,000 into the Medicare system since 1995 by setting up this tax shelter. But he says others aren't paying their fair share of Medicare taxes.
It's good for my neighbor John, and nobody else seems to matter.
My neighbor made a lot of promises on his way to the Senate. He promised strong support for our military, but then voted against body armor, combat pay, and better health care for our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. He promised to support traditional North Carolina values, but then voted to the left of Ted Kennedy on partial-birth abortion, taxes, property rights, and a host of other issues. We in North Carolina feel betrayed. My neighbor John figuratively gave his constituents the middle finger while he ingratiated himself to Tom Daschle and the rest of the Democratic Party leadership.
My neighbor announced many months ago that he would not seek reelection, because he knows he's unpopular in North Carolina and would lose by a huge margin. According to a poll released this week, when the Kerry/Edwards ticket was announced, support for Kerry in North Carolina went down, not up.
We North Carolinians know John Edwards. We've been betrayed by him, and we do not support him.
But as he broke his promises to us, he gained favor with the Democratic Party leadership. Now he's a political star. I guess turning his back on the people he claims to represent has worked out well for my neighbor, John Edwards Nobody else seems to matter.
Origins: This piece about North Carolina senator John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, was posted to various political newsgroups and web sites in early August 2004, attributed to one Senator John Edwards Brian T. Nicholson, "a neighbor of John Edwards."
Mr. Nicholson does live on Yadkin Drive in Raleigh, a street which intersects Alleghany Drive, where Senator Edwards resides. However, Mr. Nicholson now maintains that he did not pen the essay attributed to him, but that he wrote a private message to family and friends which was altered by someone else and turned into the piece now circulating on the Internet. (He has not yet produced the original version or explained which parts of his message were altered, however.)
According to the Raleigh News & Observer, other neighbors of Senator Edwards report they haven't observed the behaviors attributed to him in the piece quoted above.
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
Maybe y'all oughtta' check your references before posting disinformation and propaganda.
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
Please continue to post these things here, so I can immediately debunk them!
This is fun!
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
Maybe y'all oughtta' check your references before posting disinformation and propaganda.
Coming from the most desparate person on this site to prove his bs, you are definitely the pot calling the kettle black. I always have fun proving you wrong, mainly when it comes to military issues. Wait a minute, what am I talking about. You have family members that served so you know more than the rest of us. Silly me
95MGTS, Don’t you know, everything he brings to the table is gospel and everything the right side brings is BS.
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Bruce
Used to have a2002 GT Convertible black / tan top (Stored in winters ) delivered May 18th 2002.
C&L 85mm MAF with K&N
Grille eliminator kit with red/white/blue Pony
Pony fender emblems in place of GT's
Steeda Tri-Ax-Underdrive-timing adjuster
MagnaFlow catback exhaust 3-1/2" tips
H&R Springs & Bilsteins shocks/struts
95MGTS, Don’t you know, everything he brings to the table is gospel and everything the right side brings is BS.
Haven't heard from you brew
in ages!
How ya' doin?
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
Coming from the most desparate person on this site to prove his bs, you are definitely the pot calling the kettle black. I always have fun proving you wrong, mainly when it comes to military issues. Wait a minute, what am I talking about. You have family members that served so you know more than the rest of us. Silly me
suuuuure! why don't you order yourself a couple of pourple hearts and call me in the morning!
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
Pro-Kerry group’s ad claims “Bush says he's going to help companies outsource jobs.” But Bush never said that.
August 11, 2004
Modified: August 14, 2004
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Summary
An ad released by the Media Fund Aug. 11 is targeted to Ohio, featuring Ohio residents criticizing the President for loss of jobs overseas. In it, one of them says, "When President Bush says he's going to help companies outsource jobs, it's infuriating."
Maybe it would be infuriating if Bush really had said that, but he didn't.
What Bush has actually said is this: "The best way to deal with job creation and outsourcing is to make sure our businesses are competitive here at home."
Analysis
This ad is just the latest in a steady drum-beat of Democratic attacks blaming Bush for job losses overseas. In this one, a man identified as Louis Russo, a Cleveland resident, says, "When President Bush says he's going to help companies outsource jobs, it's infuriating." The fact is, Bush never said that.
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
suuuuure! why don't you order yourself a couple of pourple hearts and call me in the morning!
Like Senator Kerry? There are two facts that come to light with regard to what you just said. Neither of us have earned a Purple Heart (we should be thankful for that) but I have been active duty military for almost 12 years. You don't know **** about the military except what you've read and what your unlce told you. That's a fact
Maybe y'all oughtta' check your references before posting disinformation and propaganda.
what does it matter if his neighbor actually wrote that?
why don't you debunk the actual facts of the article, the voting against the military, the popularity of Kerry and Edwards in NC, the tax shelter, his slimy lawyer's tactics...
oh, wait.... those can't be debunked because they're true....
so like a Dem to point at something else and yell "hey! that's false!" to distract from the rest of it
give me a break
and while lurking, i've read some of your stuff on the military, you don't know jack about the military, some slick sleeve Airman* finishing their tech school knows more about the military than you do
*slick sleeve - E1, moves up to E2 after six months in the military
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Chevy, Like a Rock!!!
that means it don't move
i wish i knew now what i will know in thirty years, that'd be nice...
Susie will always be my main love! ('67 coupe, soon to be nightmist blue w/'68 GT stripes)
I'm doing fine my Funny Liberal Friend hope you are too!!!
I see you are still at it. Lol
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Bruce
Used to have a2002 GT Convertible black / tan top (Stored in winters ) delivered May 18th 2002.
C&L 85mm MAF with K&N
Grille eliminator kit with red/white/blue Pony
Pony fender emblems in place of GT's
Steeda Tri-Ax-Underdrive-timing adjuster
MagnaFlow catback exhaust 3-1/2" tips
H&R Springs & Bilsteins shocks/struts
what does it matter if his neighbor actually wrote that?
why don't you debunk the actual facts of the article, the voting against the military, the popularity of Kerry and Edwards in NC, the tax shelter, his slimy lawyer's tactics...
oh, wait.... those can't be debunked because they're true....
so like a Dem to point at something else and yell "hey! that's false!" to distract from the rest of it
give me a break
and while lurking, i've read some of your stuff on the military, you don't know jack about the military, some slick sleeve Airman* finishing their tech school knows more about the military than you do
*slick sleeve - E1, moves up to E2 after six months in the military
Have you looked a Kerry's voting record? Have you looked at the bills?
I'd suggest you do.
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
Considering this is becoming a political site. 
