I've personnally never had a $400.00 haircut like Mr Edwards..I resent him thinking he speaks for me. I am solid Middle class who pays $11.00 for a haircut and tips $5.00 on top of that. Mr. Edwards certainly doesn't speak for me and if I was poor, (I have been poor befor) would NOT want him speaking for me either.
2007-06-21 08:31:44 · 11 answers · asked by David B 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Yeah, how many of the presidential candidates are poor, exactly?
Hmm, let me think......probably zero!
Oh boo hoo, he got a ridiculously expensive haircut. Cry me a river. All of the candidates are flying around on jets with an entire staff organizing speeches and fundraisers and yes, making sure they look good for them. And you're complaining about one freaking haircut? Get over it.
Just because the guy is rich and got an expensive haircut does not make his positions any less valid.
2007-06-21 08:47:32 · answer #1 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it had NOT been for PUBLIC OUTRAGE
Paris Hilton case prooved he was right
Mr Edwards paid for that haircut himself
Did you whine when Laura Bush had a $750 hair do for last inaguration? didn't think so
Most people on here are clearly the types who deride Edwards simply for being an "ambulance chasing trial lawyer" but of course that's because they're simply parroting back the drivel they've been spoonfed all their lives. Here's a summary of Edwards' most famous case:
John prosecuted a claim on behalf of a 3 yo girl whose intestines were literally sucked out of her body when she sat down over a powerful suction pump in a kiddie pool which was inadequately covered by a flimsy plastic piece, leaving her dependent on medical assistance which would cost her and her family millions of dollars during her lifetime.
Testimony from pool design expert witnesses showed that a sturdy suction cover could have been provided at a cost of only an additional 25 CENTS, yet the defendants chose to utilize the flimsy plastic piece TO SAVE A MEASLY 25 CENTS PER PUMP.
That's how much businesses care about you. Your safety wouldn't be worth 25 CENTS to them if it weren't for people like Edwards.
2007-06-21 08:39:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I get the impression that you're not an Edwards supporter? I would suggest that you not vote for him.
Edwards got caught doing something stupid that alienates him from 'ordinary' working folk. Millionaires will do that. Maybe that would be a good question in the debates of ALL of the candidates.. what do THEY pay for a haircut?
2007-06-21 08:36:45 · answer #3 · answered by words_smith_4u 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That must've hurt!
If the (R)'s like Bush stay in charge, more and more middle class folks might find themselves sliding, but unfortunately many of them will still be kicking down and kissing up. If you're one who hopes your social security will still be there when you retire to supplement any other savings or annuities you've planned, you might realize that some Dems are really more on your side. Thye would be more likely to tax companies that move offshore and don't pay their fair share to help pay the bills for America's Defense and necessary expenditures for the good of all like public education, police, national guard, coast guard, emergency teams, etc.
2007-06-21 08:50:38 · answer #4 · answered by topink 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think based on your amazingly in dept reasoning (a haircut defines people), there is no politician who speaks for you. Politicians try to represent what they feel the majority of the people want. If they get a $400 haircut, that doesn't mean anything. If they think a $400 haircut is normal, THEN they are out of touch.
2007-06-21 08:41:35 · answer #5 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You just backed up a two Americas statement. There is an America that can afford a $400 haircut and one that can afford $11 haircuts. That same analogy goes for education, health care, housing, etc.
You might want to think before you write.
2007-06-21 08:36:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I am between middle-class and poor and I cut my own hair. I do beleive that there needs to be a solution to poverty. From a black perspective in the 1970's many black people who were previously opressed by Jim Crow laws were able to become middle-class, even upper-class, to combat this, the federal government in the early 80's began to funnel cocaine into the black communities 25 years later, we have a multitude of black men in jail, millions of blacks living well below the poverty line, millions of grown crack babies. There is nobody that speaks for us at all.
2007-06-21 08:48:57 · answer #7 · answered by dnrage 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Edwards is so behind in this race with all the attention going to Obama and Hillary that he had to come up with some news maker or he sits on the sidelines waiting to be chosen as a VP again.
2007-06-21 08:40:49 · answer #8 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who cares about his stupid hair cut!!!!!! It has NOTHING to do with what I pay at the gas pump or at the grocery store. It has NOTHING to do with our soldiers getting killed because they are under-equipped, AND; It has NOTHING to do with Bush's budget cuts to veterans care!! Oh; How soon we forget Duke Cunningham and his $7000.00 COMMODE!!!Which would you rather have. Personally; I'll take the hair cut. Even if I thought my sh^t DIDN'T stink, it still wouldn't be worth $7000!!
2007-06-21 08:49:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good, don't vote for him! Another Republican troll!
I don't want Bush or ANY REPUBLICAN speaking for me. They have only managed to screw up the country and make us worse off, not better!
2007-06-21 08:35:51 · answer #10 · answered by cantcu 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋