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I'm John Edwards, And I Approve This Message

September 30, 2004 Politics 10 Comments
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, answers questions during a town meeting campaign stop at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Imus In The Morning – Sept. 29, 2004

IMUS: I had a bunch of people on my staff – and who are all pretty incompetent, by the way – and the MSNBC staff, go through everything that you said during the primary process to see if we could find something horrible that you had said about Senator Kerry.

EDWARDS: Yes. I bet you did.

IMUS: And we couldn’t find anything. But at some point…

EDWARDS: You couldn’t find anything?

IMUS: Not really, no. Other than you came from a working-class thing and the implication was that he didn’t, which is fine. But at some point, there was a point where you thought you’d make a better president than he did. When did you decide that that was not the case, or have you?

EDWARDS: I think that John Kerry will make a great president.

IMUS: No, but that doesn’t answer the question.

EDWARDS: I know it doesn’t answer the question.

(LAUGHTER)

IMUS: Why wouldn’t you want to do that?

(LAUGHTER)

EDWARDS: What, are you like Russert now?

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10 Comments

  1. Evilwhiteguy September 30, 2004

    I ran for President, before I ran for Vice President…

  2. Jay Tea September 30, 2004

    Aubrey, I think you meant:
    “I actually ran against John Kerry, before I ran for him…”

    J.

  3. Richard September 30, 2004

    -Evilwhiteguy

    That should be their new slogan 🙂 You have to get the whole finger pointing thing in there also.

    Richard

  4. GHWB September 30, 2004

    Just because you accuse your opponent of “Voodoo Economics” in the primary, it doesn’t mean you can’t jump on board and be his Veep and support his economic policies later.

    GHWB

  5. Dodd September 30, 2004

    Actually, I generally consider Edwards and empty suit but I have to give him some credit here. He chose a deft and humourous way to handle that. If their whole campaign was like this, they’d probably be winning. Maybe they did get their ticket in the wrong order….

  6. Henry September 30, 2004

    They did get their ticket backwards.
    Edwards looks a lot prettier in a dress than Kerry.

  7. mcg September 30, 2004

    Actually, I think that was pretty smooth of John Boy.

  8. Tom_with_a_dream September 30, 2004

    Kudos to The Jr Senator from NC (or is it SC, oh who cares, Bush will win both…)

    And Kudos to GHWB (the WhiteHouseRetired.gov is great)

  9. The Proprietor September 30, 2004

    I agree with the above comments. This exchange demonstrates more wit on Edward’s part than anything that Kerry came up with on either the Daily Show or Letterman. Edwards is winking at the process. Good for him. I guess you don’t win multi-million dollar lawsuits without being quick on your feet.

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