Posted On: July 7, 2004, 1:45 pm CDT

Posted By: alfaron

Criticism pointed at Edwards for: Accepting money from other attorneys, voting against tort reform, and ignoring the people, is fallacious and typical of the hypocrisy that supporters of an administration that even pales the Teapot Dome Scandal of the Harding era. First: The say that people who have been injured by the actions of corporations that affect their health and well-being, limiting the damages that may collectedto an amount that is a pittance, and a write-off of their taxes, to the wrongdoers, is an unconscionable mistatement of fact. To a person who's father died from exposure to asbestos, and who never smoked in his life, and who's family was deprived of his support and comfort, is criminal irresponsibility. That the responsible parties can hide behind bankruptcy laws and smoke screens created by a parade of corporate defense attorneys, is unconcionable. Second: Your efforts to paint the man with a brush that is soiled with the payoffs to Halliburton, Enron, drug companies, and a score of cronie-corporations, is a painfully clear attempt to reach for straws that have already injured the economy greatly, cost millions of people jobs and retirement savings, is clear disregard for the public and doesn't hold a candle to the damages gained by tort lawyers. You should not be just ashamed, you should look in the mirror and try to find your own image of responsibility.