Posted by
Daniel Miller on Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:10:17 PM
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Edwards VideoPer today's Washington Post, Bob Shrum gives a gift that will continue to give until at least the democrat nominee is selected.
In his new memoir, "No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner,"
Shrum recalls asking Edwards at the outset of that campaign, "What is
your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay rights?"
"I'm not comfortable
around those people," Edwards replied, according to Shrum. He writes
that the candidate's wife, Elizabeth, told him: "John, you know that's
wrong."
Edwards's pollster, Harrison Hickman, who was in the room
during the discussion, says Shrum "is sensationalizing and taking out
of context what was an honest discussion about [Edwards's] lack of
exposure to these issues and openly gay people. I don't remember
anything that expressed any kind of venom or judgment about gay people."
Edwards served 6 years in the Senate, certainly long enough one would think, to become comfortable around
those people. Maybe he is too pretty..