Comments on: North Carolinian wants apology from Elizabeth Edwards

By: Dionysis

Dionysis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why should Elizabeth Edwards apologize? If the shoe fits, wear it, rabid wingnut. And if a bunch of junked cars and an unkept empty house do not constitute ‘slummy’ property, what does? And no one has disputed that this cretin pulled a gun on someone. She should warn her kids away from characters like him. So he’s selling his property and leaving. Good. He’ll probably move to a more hospitable location, like anywhere in South Carolina.

By: Grover Syck

Grover Syck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As Dionysis said, “If the shoe fits wear it”, even if it is uncomfortable to do so in public.

From the article, it sounds like it fits very well.

In my opinion, no apology is due.

By: Stavo

Stavo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Judging by Johnson comments, after the fact, I would beleary about letting any child near him.

As for him not being able to afford the property taxes anymore…..look no further than the local GOP for that little surprise. The rich republicans always take what they want and will do anything to weed out those that can’t afford their games. His own party is giving him the shaft and he is to studid to realize it. lol

GOP’ism is truly a mental illness issue.

By: niterider

niterider — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s see, Mr. Johnson was already living there when the Edwards’ moved in, now she is bad-mouthing him and his property. If she doesn’t like it they shouldn’t have moved there. And I don’t know where y’all live but in most ANY rural area of the country, if you go wandering around someone else’s property un-invited, you might very well be greeted by the land-owner carrying a gun.That is STILL a right that we have…….and the SS was wrong, it was his concern. He may not be due an apology, but he damn well doesn’t owe the Edwards a thing either. I hope he gets his $1.6 mil and tells both the Dems and Repubs to piss off…..

By: Rik Reynolds

Rik Reynolds — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If Monty was as “rabid” as Elizabeth slandered him wouldn’t he be taking up the lawyers’ offers to sue? This is why poor people join the GOP. The DLC corporate Dems have no real compassion. John Edwards met with the Bilderbergers to be approved before he could be on Kerry’s ticket. Most of the Dems are as elitist as the Repugs.

That’s why Clinton pardoned Marc Rich. We are a plutocracy, and wealth rules. The Dems just offer a crust of bread to the poor, whereas the Repugs don’t care at all. Elizabeth can afford a 29,000 sq. ft. house and whines about an abandoned house next door? Why doesn’t she just offer to fix it up so some poor family can live there for cheap rent?

It would make a great Habitat for Humanity project and maybe impress Monty enough to take down his Rudy sign. If the Secret Service were stomping around on my land and told me it was none of my concern I’d get riled too, and I’ve been a lifelong Dem voter, though often because they were the lesser evil. Time to give the Greens a chance.

By: marylynn

marylynn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I just don’t get it. As a Democrat, I don’t find the statements defensible, either. I am surprised anyone can excuse EE’s calling a neighbor’s property “slummy” – no matter who or what the neighbor is. Actually, I am growing completely tired of the Edwards’ personal life and the public spectacle made of it in this primary race.

By: David Rosenberg

David Rosenberg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There is something not right here, Elizabeth Edwards doesn’t strike me as that type of person. On the other hand, why hasn’t she or John said something, defending what she said, if she said it.
I get the inkling Mr. Johnson may have left a word or two out of his story, concerning the Secert Service. Mr. Johnson made it seem that they didn’t identify themselves but, how would Mr. Johnson know they were SS? In case Mr Johnson doesn’t understand the English language, Secret means, you aren’t supposed to know, what they are doing.
I just feel pieces are missing from this story. If Mrs. Edwards made these statements, could it be a reaction to the Chemo she is on?
I hope there is a follow-up to this to get the air cleared.

By: Doubtom

Doubtom — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I just took a poll and everyone said there were “completely tired” of your opinion also.

Slummy property is slummy regardless of who is observing it to be so and it doesn’t change because of whose property it may abut.

This is tendered with a generous spirit in the hopes that it might acquaint you with the precise degree of your insignificance. Yer Welcum.

By: Doubtom

Doubtom — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

–are the least of our problems. What’s wrong with America is that we accept we need any agency described as “secret”; that’s the real obscenity!

Secrecy has no place in a democracy, which is why we have never had a democracy.

By: RBrown

RBrown — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“I’d just like to know why she has such hard feelings to me,” Mr. Johnson says.

It could be due in part to Mr. Johnson’s repeated comments to the media criticizing the Edwardses for the size of their new home and for keeping their gate locked, and accusing John Edwards for snubbing him by not stopping by to chat when he (Edwards) is out jogging. Johnson has been making these nutty remarks about the Edwardses to the media now for at least two months. Add to that the gun incident, which, according to one account floating around the blogosphere, may have involved utility workers with Duke Power accessing a right-of-way or easement, and you may well understand why Elizabeth Edwards would want to keep Johnson at arms length.

As for Mrs. Edwards calling Johnson’s property slummy (actually, “property” should be plural – he owns 16 tracts in Orange County), we don’t know the context of that remark at all. We don’t even have a complete sentence out of Mrs. Edwards’ mouth. Just the word “slummy” in quotes.

There do indeed appear to be quite a few details missing from the story as reported.