PROMISES, PROMISES

I watched the Vice Presidential debate last night.

When Edwards said, "A long résumé does not equal good judgment," I could not help but think neither does a short resume such as Mr. Edwards has. John Edwards, of the winning smile and hale fellow well met genre, campaigned a few years ago in North Carolina. He promised to serve the citizens of North Carolina faithfully if we would vote for him. I voted for him based on his skillfully phrased promises and talk of being one of us, the lower and middle class. Once Edwards had our votes, he forgot about the people who elected him. A chance of gaining a more
prestigious office soon made him forget all about the citizens who put him in office. Edwards does not respond to
constituents. Edwards' office does not respond to constituents. Edwards himself, while being paid with taxpayers funds, has largely absented himself from his current job. That performance, in any well run business, would promptly end his position.

Kerry has had a very difficult time determining what his views are and presented many to the electorate. He seems to finally have settled on his "wrong war, wrong place, wrong time" theme. Edwards elaborated on this in the debate by promising the Kerry/Edwards team would do it, the war on terror, better. I am still waiting for an explanation of how they would do this.

Kerry has finally had to admit that France and Germany will not boost our troop strength. Kerry has offended the coalition leaders to the point that the Polish leader has made public comment about the trivializing of his countries sacrifices by a senator with twenty years experience. Both Kerry and Edwards have in the past made public comments about the need to remove Saddam because of the capability of using WMD and stated he was a grave threat to the US. Vice President Cheney said it best when he noted that both Kerry and Edwards changed their stances when Howard Dean was gaining strength in the Democratic primaries with his anti-war theme. Cheney asked," if (Kerry/Edwards) couldn't stand up to the pressure that Howard Dean represented, how can we expect them to stand up to Al Quaeda?"

I will not fall for Edwards empty promises a second time.