Moral Standing
Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom posits John Edwards, bloviating last night on our moral obligations re global poverty at Brown University, doesn’t have any. Moral standing, that is. I’m confused by the part where the News & Observer calls Edwards a “two-time candidate.” I thought the problem was he was a “two-timing candidate.” Edwards also addressed that, sort of:
A student who said she organized for Edwards on campus and knocked on doors for him in New Hampshire asked whether politicians should be held to higher moral standards than the rest of the public.
The question sent murmurs through the crowd.
“I don’t think it’s for a candidate to decide what’s appropriate,” Edwards said. “It’s something for every American to decide for themselves.”
He added: “I have my own view, which I’m going to keep to myself tonight.”
Probably a good idea. The bigger question is why a university is giving this discredited third-string bounder a forum to hold forth on people’s moral obligations in the first place. Let him get a blog like the rest of us discredited third-string bounders.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:32 pm Comments (4) on Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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March 11th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
[...] Jules Crittenden: The bigger question is why a university is giving this discredited third-string bounder a forum to hold forth on people’s moral obligations in the first place. Let him get a blog like the rest of us discredited third-string bounders. [...]
March 11th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Jules
‘Discredited third string bounder’ is the most apt description of Edwards I have ever read.
Bravo!
March 11th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
[...] Jules Crittenden on the cad John Edwards: The bigger question is why a university is giving this discredited third-string bounder a forum to hold forth on people’s moral obligations in the first place. Let him get a blog like the rest of us discredited third-string bounders. [...]
May 15th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
[...] as Jules put it, The bigger question is why a university is giving this discredited third-string bounder a [...]