Attention Wal-Mart shoppers: Edwards wants a Playstation
OK, I'm going to take John Edwards at his word: that he didn't ask a volunteer to get a Playstation 3 for him, let alone get one from Wal-mart.
So...is his internal political education really that crappy? Was the kid really that clueless? Or, since he wanted one for himself, did he figure that using John Edwards' name would facilitate that? Since he did this all on his own, if he had been successful, would John Edwards' Playstation have gone to his kids instead? Did he figure that Wal-Mart was big and bureaucratic enough that it wouldn't notice suce a thing?
If I were Edwards, this guy would be volunteering for somebody else. But if I were Edwards, I wouldn't be picking on Wal-Mart either. Well, heck, I wouldn't be Edwards...though the looks and the money wouldn't hurt.
UPDATE:
This line from Taranto (re "the young kid")is too good not to include:
So have a little sympathy for the populist John Edwards. After all, these days good unpaid child labor is hard to find.
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