Double Standard? Just what is John Edwards saying?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298526,00.html

“We start with the president of the United States saying to America, ‘we cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”

I'm curious what would happen if a non-democrat said this? How would it be interpreted if, for example, Bill O'Reilly said "all African-American Males are going to be in prison or dead?"

I can't imagine the outrage.

From another angle. Clearly John Edwards is REALLY grasping for a vote. He seems to have the method of ass-kiss-pandering for votes down to a science.

What if the tables were turned

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_US?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

So the Iranian president is coming to the US and he's going to get a forum to speak at Columbia University.

I don't have a problem with it. I'm all for giving crazies a forum to continue to prove in person that they are crazy. But all the fuss over wether he should or shouldn't be allowed to speak... To me, the most start contrast between 'us and them' is consider if President Bush wanted to go speak in Iran? One, from a security standpoint there is NO WAY that would even be consionable, but even if they could guarentee his safety, a country like Iran would never ALLOW him to speak.

I wonder if any of the "U.S. Haters" over there, which surely there are plenty of, consider that despite what they think if us, their leader can come here and not just be safe to do so, but also a country that allows someone to speak his piece. Something our president couldn't even think of doing there.

Which I think is the biggest reason to let him speak here. Because it proves how much different we are from "them". Our citizens (as a whole) are more civilized and our government still respects at least some of our constitutional freedoms.

Has the Senate nothing better to do?

Than pass meaningless sybolism over substance measures..

Fock me...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297498,00.html