“On John Edwards, U. S. Senator from North Carolina: "The stump speech of pretty-boy Senator John Edwards, which I've heard often enough to be able to mouth along with him, has room for everything, including vivid, wrenching portraits of despair: 'Tonight somewhere in America a ten-year-old little girl will go to bed hungry, hoping and praying that tomorrow will not be as cold as today because she doesn't have the coat to keep her warm.'”

— Mark Steyn

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to be doubled up in laughter at that line.
" It's the war, stupid http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0304/steyn030104.asp", 1 March 2004

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