Call it the 'Tug at the Heartstrings Tour'

DES MOINES -- John Edwards embarks on his last big push here Thursday before all the campaigns go dark for the Christmas holiday, and he's hoping living examples will help sell his populist message of standing up for the little guy against a system corrupted by corporate influence.

All of Edwards' traveling guests figure in some way in his basic stump speech. One, a man who lived most of his life unable to speak because of an unrepaired cleft palate, illustrates his position on healthcare. Another, a laid-off factory worker, represents the effects of trade policies. And a young girl horrifically injured in a swimming pool accident (who'll be on the trail with her parents) is meant to evidence Edwards' highly successful (and enriching) legal career as a trial lawyer waging product liability and other suits against corporations.

None of the guests has any obvious connection with the war in Iraq, part of a drastically shifting narrative in the Democratic campaign that our colleague, Peter Wallsten, writes about in today's paper.

For you serious Iowa junkies, the state Democratic Party tracks all the events by all the candidates in the coming days.

Then it's Christmastime. And when the campaigns resume -- most on Wednesday, the day after Christmas -- they'll have a week that includes the New Year's holiday to try to persuade those legions of undecided and still-wooable caucus-goers to climb on board.

And if the candidates think competing among themselves is tough, check this out.

-- Scott Martelle

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[Jeugenen]

HILLARY THE NEO-LIB PUPPET CANDIDATE

Lacking for a strong real candidate, the Neo-Lib Democrats have run Hillary. The problem is that she has long been observed to be emotionally and intellectually deficient.

Their clever solution is to systematically change her image; under the assumption that the American People are for the most part too simple minded to know the difference between realities and illusions.

To make the Hillary-puppet appear to be compassionate, meticulous studies are made of the social and economic needs of various social and economic groups, such as homosexuals and low income elderly voters. To see who does the research for the emotional Hillary-puppet displays, Google: Mark Penn.

To make the Hillary-puppet appear to be mentally superior, questions are planted and answers must be rigorously rehearsed. To see who does the research for these brilliant questions and answers, Google: Mark Penn.

The fatal flaw is that the small group of Neo-Lib Democrat masterminds behind this Hillary-puppet Show is just not quite clever enough to successfully pull off their scam. Moral depravity and intellectual bankruptcy are their self-limiting handicaps.

The World is closely watching the American Cultural War; Google: Who Would the World Elect.

[Jeugenen]

HILLARY’S UNIQUE ADVANTAGES IN GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE

Whitewater, Cattle Futuregate, Travelgate, Gennifer Flowersgate, Filegate, Vince Fostergate, Whitewater Billing Recordsgate, Paula Jonesgate, Federal Building Campaign Phone Callgate, Lincoln Bedroomgate, Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate, Buddhist Templegate, Lippogate, Chinagate, Lewinsky Affair, Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate, Willeygate, Web Hubbel Prison Phone Callgate, Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate, Wag the Doggate, Juanita Broaddrickgate, Vandalgate, Lootergate, Pardongate.

Israel for military protection, China for military secrets, and Mexico for amnesty desperately need the Neo-Lib Hillary-Puppet to be president; but for what do the American People need the Neo-Lib Puppet?

REFERENCES
1. For experience documentation, Google: “boycott liberalism Clinton Legacy”; and, “Danneymeyer deaths linked to President Clinton”
2. For more recent experience, Google: “Hsu Hillary”
3. For the documented role of foreign lobbies, Google: “Mearsheimer Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy”
4. For Neo-Lib history, Google: Stricherz. “Why the Democrats are Blue”
5. For the World’s View of Hillary’s special qualifications to be president of the American People and a World Leader, Google: “Who Would the World Elect”

[Naughten]

REAGAN REPUBLICANS AND KENNEDY DEMOCRATS IN REVOLT

Just as the Ronald Reagan Conservatives are revolting to crush the Podhoretz Neo-Conservatives; the John Kennedy Liberals are revolting to crush the Leiberman Neo-Liberals.

These Neo-Cons and Neo-Libs, victims of their own culturally subversive ideologies, now have the traditional Conservatives and Liberals fighting to expel them from power. The accelerating rates at which Hillary and Giuliani are both dropping in the polls are a measure of this rising tide of rebellion.

The endorsement of Neo-Con McCain, by Neo-Lib Leiberman, joins the panicked forces of the Neo-Con pseudo-conservatives and Neo-Lib pseudo-liberals against the traditional Democrats and Republicans.

It is the Dawn of the American Reformation; and the beginning of the End of the Era of the Ugly American.

The World is intently watching the American Cultural War, and cheering the Ron Paul Rebellion.

Google References
1. Who Would the World Elect
2. Stricherz "Why the Democrats are Blue"
3. Mearsheimer "Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy"
4. Wikipedia "Neo-Conservative"
5. Wikipedia "Neo-Liberals"