Postcards from the Funny Farm

Humans value about 3 or 4 things universally: food, sex, sleep, sense of belonging . . . among other things.

Being an effective rhetorician requires this basic understanding and a sensitivity to it (I don’t proclaim to be one, but I do proclaim I know what one is). Recently I wrote about the importance of situational etiquette in conversation and writing. In that post I explained that a rhetorician must seek appeal to everyone and seek to offend no one.  A few months back I wrote one about the traits of people I most respect.

John Edwards needs to read these 2 articles in my humble opinion.

I just read a Reuters piece on Edwards’ rhetoric concerning the war in Iraq. Mind you, I’m not the biggest Bush fan, however I feel the current administration deserve a measure of respect just for who they are in the system. His speeches throw rhetorical mud based on polls. John Edwards has it ALL wrong.

Does Edwards want hoots and hollers, or a resolution to these very troubling issues. I don’t want a President that looks at polls and then simply throws his vitriolic rhetoric at the outlier. I want a reasonable speaker/writer who takes into account the human universals and speaks to those in his audience.

I guess I reacted so negatively to this article because I watched an interview on Larry King recently with he and his wife. It just seems wrong for him to be on the campaign trail while his wife has inoperable cancer. Does he think he is so important that the world cannot live without him running? Pompous. I think he oughta be home. Oh yeah, my wife just reminded me he has really young kids who could use him at home as well. For now, Edwards fails to impress. let’s see if he hangs up the tired old Republican bashing and gets to solving problems (I am a proud Democrat by the way so don’t you Edwards fans out there pigeon-hole me.) All comments are warmly welcomed.

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