...And Welcome to It

Charles Krauthammer nails Edwards to the wall.

This is John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do the
work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John
Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up
out of that wheelchair and walk again."

In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of
demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately, for personal gain,
raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable.

Where does one begin to deconstruct this outrage?

This is the kind of gaffe that ought to be election-losing. It's particularly insulting in the wake of the recent death of Christopher Reeve. Read it all, and then consider whether a vote for Kerry is really in your future.