Monday, July 28, 2003

News I missed while on vacation: Anarchists Take Top Prize in Greensboro Fourth of July Parade. 8:07:19 PM    comment []

John Edwards lays out a plan to provide health insurance to kids. His speeches are a lot better than his web presence, which remains stiff and impersonal. Two words, Senator: Howard Dean. Edwards is a storyteller. In the healthcare speech, he talks about a 5 year-old boy with Cerebral Palsy who couldn’t get physical therapy because an HMO wouldn’t pay. He weaves in his own history of standing up to corporations on behalf of everyday Americans. “(M)y firm took that HMO to court and we won. We had to fight to get that company to do what was right.” It’s pretty potent stuff. A weblog would suit him well.   The N&R’s Eric Dyer reports that of the healthcare proposals put forward by Democratic hopefuls, the Edwards plan is “so far the most targeted and least expensive.”   4:38:16 PM    comment []

Memewatch: While they don’t say that Bush oversold the nation on WMD – the emerging “so sue us” meme – a couple of big names trot out a corollary – it doesn’t matter now what the facts were then.   Mark Steyn: “(W)ill the Niger uranium story be proved true? Quite possibly, but who cares?”   Paul Gigot: “The one word I almost never heard in Iraq was "WMD."…The liberation of this country from Saddam's terror is justification enough for what they are doing, and the main chance now isn't refighting the case for war but making sure we win on the ground.”   Gigot’s right about winning on the ground, but shouldn’t we know how we got there in the first place? 8:17:20 AM    comment []