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To: calgal who wrote (6307)	7/9/2004 3:35:36 AM
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Cal Thomas Lightweight and lighter weight newsandopinion.com \| One of the things people hate most about politics is politicians who don't tell the truth and change their positions at the drop of an opinion poll. Only five months ago, Sen. John Kerry said of his chosen running mate, Sen. John Edwards: "I think the American people want an experienced hand at the helm of state. This is not the time for on-the-job training in the White House on national security issues." Speaking of Edwards' lack of experience as a freshman senator, Kerry was quoted by The New York Times six months ago as saying about Edwards: "In the Senate four years - and that is the full extent of his public life - no international experience, no military experience, you can imagine what the advertising is going to be next year ... When I came back from Vietnam in 1969, I don't know if John Edwards was out of diapers then ... ." Did Edwards swallow maturity pills and, overnight, achieve political potty training? How can a presidential candidate think so little of a Senate colleague only to select him as his running mate? Dan Quayle had more congressional experience than John Edwards when Quayle was selected to run with President George H.W. Bush in 1988. Some of the same people praising Edwards trashed Quayle for being an inexperienced airhead. Less than a month ago, Kerry's stepson, Chris Heinz, was quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "I was very pro-Edwards in the spring. ... But now I think we may need someone with stronger credentials on foreign policy." jewishworldreview.com