Casual Observation

12 Comments

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   esquimaux on March 17, 2014 at 3:56 pm

   Edwin fucking Edwards is still around. Just what the Democratic party needs in the 21st century, an old-fashioned unrepentant crook.

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   TarheelDem on March 17, 2014 at 4:17 pm

   And I bet the Democratic machine in Louisiana recruited him because he’s a “proven winner”.

   I’ve not seen either party ever so intent on self-destruction as both parties this year.

   Too bad none of the third parties can get their acts together.

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     MNPundit on March 17, 2014 at 5:04 pm

     On the one hand sometimes I get frustrated that there’s nothing anyone can do. Other times I just remember that’s standard for human history and the boomlet in bourgeoisie governance was an outlier.

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   on March 17, 2014 at 5:07 pm

   I’ve never felt bad about being from New Jersey.

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   Parallax on March 17, 2014 at 6:00 pm

   This guy has an infant child? Is his wife 40 years his junior?

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     Phil Perspective on March 17, 2014 at 6:16 pm

     Didn’t you read the Drudgico story?  His wife is 35!!  Which means she is 50 years his junior!!

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       Parallax on March 17, 2014 at 6:21 pm

       Didn’t notice that detail. Thanks for pointing it out. The wife is young enough to be his granddaughter. I find that really weird.

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         Geov Parrish on March 17, 2014 at 7:37 pm

         It’s not so much the 50-years-younger wife that gets to me – “trophy wives” is a phrase, that sort of thing is so common – as the infant son. What kind of egomaniac fathers a child at that age?

         The same kind, I guess, that goes to prison for a decade and jokes about it as being basically irrelevant, having learned nothing. The only reason he’s even a Democrat is that his political career started while Jim Crow was still the law in his state, and he was sitting so pretty in his corruption that he had no need to change party.

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   lamh31 on March 17, 2014 at 8:04 pm

   And he will likely win too.  

   Actually, if it was at all possible, he could run for Governor and still win.

6. 

   Gingiro on March 18, 2014 at 1:54 am

   What’s worse than NJ and LA, CAROLINA!, both of them!

7. 

   Rachel Q on March 18, 2014 at 7:46 am

   I’d feel worse about being from Louisiana if it weren’t for Mississippi.  🙂

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     Indianadem on March 18, 2014 at 8:01 am

     Indiana is striving mightily to lower itself to their standards. Plus its cold.