Robert Seltzer: Clinton, Edwards are just big bullies on Democratic playground

[helderheid]

Web Posted: 07/21/2007 08:49 PM CDT

San Antonio Express-News

When I was a kid, the playground had no representative from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The bigger kids ruled, period. They were the CEOs of the street. Picture Donald Trump with a cowlick instead of a comb-over.

Like Trump, they loved the power, especially when it came to choosing sides in pick-up games. The brutes drafted the teams, and as player after player got picked, the smaller kids ended up in their usual spot, on the sideline, wondering when their time would come. It was social Darwinism for the swing and merry-go-round set.

In the political world, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are the brutes. They want to keep the runts out of the playground, their playground — the Dennis Kuciniches, the Mike Gravels, the Barack ... no, Barack Obama is safe. He is a heavyweight, too, after all, albeit one with more compassion toward the lightweights.

In an embarrassing aside following a recent presidential debate, Fox News caught Clinton and Edwards discussing their rivals. They spoke with the same passion they had displayed during the debate, but the subject was not Iraq or health insurance or Social Security. The subject was how to shove their rivals — you know, the smaller kids — out of the debates, according to a transcript released by Fox News.

MORE (with exchange transcript):

http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA072207.01H.seltzer0722.26dcb78.html

[MethuenProgressive]

1. Edwards? A bully? hahahahahahahaha :gasp: hahahhahahahaha

His wife, maybe. But not lil Johnny.