Posted by
rycK on Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:45:34 PM
The Exciting Political Adventures of Bob Shrum, the political shrummer and Sen Edwards.
Bob Shrum’s last name is now a reflexive transitive verb chosen in special political circumstances when describing the general bungling of some political project. This guy carries along a negative fecality factor that is astonishing, as his presence seems to ensure failure. His astonishing election record [0 for 8?!] is almost as dismal as that of J. Kenneth Galbraith’s elections picks, who unsuccessfully predicted the glorious elections of Northern Liberals to the White House on several occasions, and lost all of them. J. K. G. also seems to have predicted about 40 economic downturns from 1965 to 1980 as well. His credentials as an economist and political pundit, however, remain solid with left-wing anarchists and other parasites.
When exploring the reasons for the Kerry loss, we can rely on Shrum who suggests that Edwards shrummed Kerry and Kerry apparently agrees. Apparently, Edwards was channeling to some dead relative or what not, a practice of crippled and revival-tent hucksters and ambulance-chasing lawyers, mediums and other frauds.
Is this the best they can offer?
But, the election season is early and not yet ripe so we may get to see Bob Shrum and his progressive shrummings come to fruition. I hope Hillary chooses this master of politics to guide her campaign.
Shrum & Twiddle de Dumb.
We remain fortunate that the old Marxist/Criminal wing of the Democrat Party has talent of this gauge.
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Excepts from the book are given below:[1]
“After compiling an 0-8 record in presidential campaigns, Shrum has taken something of a beating from the political and media establishment of late, and he has been conspicuously absent from the 2008 campaign thus far.”
“Shrum says that, in the end, Kerry "wished that he'd never picked Edwards, that he should have gone with his gut" and selected Dick Gephardt. And the feelings between Kerry and Edwards seem fairly mutual. After Kerry reached out to Edwards in the wake of his wife's disclosure of a recurrence of cancer, Shrum writes, "Kerry told me that the Edwardses simply stopped returning calls or talking to him and Teresa."
“That surely helps to explain why No Excuses repeatedly portrays Edwards as a hyper-ambitious phony. Nowhere is that clearer--and more startling--than in a passage recounting Kerry's first meeting with Edwards during the summer 2004 running-mate selection process. Kerry had qualms about Edwards from the start, Shrum writes, but grew even queasier about Edwards after they met. Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he'd never told anyone else--that after his son Wade had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he'd do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade's ideals of service. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before--and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling, and he decided he couldn't pick Edwards unless he met with him again.