Ken Doll gets screwed by Lisa Druck, returning the favor

Ya gotta love MoDo. In her Sunday column she eviscerates the one term senator, no term vice president, and no term president with the same kind of fervor she used to favor Bubba with. I believe this story has legs. Bony, hairy ones with scabs on the knees. I just caught part of Edwards' interview with Bob Woodruff that was at the end of a news clip with him saying something along the lines of, “…you can be 99% good but it’s that other part that will get you.”

Was part of the 99% where he was so sold on himself that he had to put his family through the cruel strains of a national campaign—again—because he really had more to offer than some of the more serious and tested candidates? Riding a bus through Iowa and New Hampshire in the winter, three towns in a day, and then jumping on a plane to get to the next venue is the kind of torture that these guys (and one gal) put themselves and their “loved ones” through on purpose and I got to say, it doesn’t seem like a good thing to do.

The truth for me is that I never liked him, even before I knew that he paid $400 for a hair cut and you gotta see this to understand why.

When he admits that he was/is full of himself you know that he’s telling the truth for a change. All that stuff about how he was going to eradicate poverty starting “right now,” as he stated in some snake water neighborhood in New Orleans with a bunch of bought-off kids for props behind him. They probably would have demanded more if they knew how long it would take him to pimp his ‘do’ before the video began to roll.

I remember covering him last fall in Conway when he suddenly changed the meeting place to the Salyards building which only held 200 because that kind of a piddly crowd would make him look like the loser that he is if they carried on with plans to use the cavernous new High School gym. They hadn’t got the fire department permits they needed and didn’t make the necessary accommodations for possible emergency evacuation and so when I left, as soon as I could, there were about fifty people standing outside in the rain waiting for others to leave so they could get in. For what?

I wonder if the water these ego maniacs drink is also laced with Viagra. Probably only Mike Gravel has no sexual scandal attached to him in this last go around. Even the diminutive alien look a like Kucinich is on his third wife (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Perhaps the whole business of running is just a ploy for getting laid. We used to have a NH congressman who was telling my buddy Jim that he had to go up to tiny little Orford that night to give a speech. “Hard to get laid up in Orford, Jimbo,” says he with a wink, “but not impossible.” Chuckle chuckle.

The lure of the opposite sex is fun. It’s what keeps the human race going and some people are not blessed with the kind of self-discipline that would be helpful when temptation knocks. But this guy was running for POTUS for the love of jaypers. Did he think no one would find out? Had he never heard about FDR and Lucy, Ike and Kay, Jack and his whole pack, the Trickster and Checkers and of course the audacious one from Hope who liked to talk to his friends on the phone in the oval office while not having sexual relations with that 21 year old in the blue dress.

The bigger part of the story is the lying. Not to reporters and us but to his family. Why does he have to go on TV to drag the ugliness right up to their noses? He told them already what happened and had it out of the way, so we are led to believe, he was thinking of them? It is not remotely possible that Edwards went out to LA just a month ago to straighten out some details of an understanding that he had with Druck/Hunter.

And who believes that Andrew Young guy, who supposedly says he is the father, is at all reliable when he takes money that we are asked to believe comes from a private donor to resettle, just like Lisa/Reille did. Young too has a wife and kids. I bet the money is somehow being funneled from campaign treasury funds which could lead to criminal charges. Keep it up, boys.

Why should we care? We don’t. It’s just fun.