Kedwards Redux

John Kerry is continuing his visionary campaign, offering this positive message of how to better handle disaster relief:

"Katrina is a symbol of all this administration does and doesn't do," he added. "Michael Brown -- or Brownie as the president so famously thanked him for 'doing a heck of a job' - Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq; what George Tenet is to slam-dunk intelligence; what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad; what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy; what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning; what Tom Delay is to ethics; and what George Bush is to 'Mission Accomplished' and 'Wanted Dead or Alive.'

Boy, that Kerry is a master of rhetoric. Nothing like stringing together a bunch of SAT-style negative similes to inspire the people in the wake of a disaster. Typically, Kerry plans to address these issues with - wait for it - A PLAN!

Kerry said he plans to address some of those challenges in detail over the next few weeks.

Oh, sorry. He has a plan for a plan, which was partially what got him unelected last November. Meanwhile, Kerry's erstwhile running mate, the also obscenely wealthy trial lawyer John Edwards, said Americans aren't interested in wealth, not when they can work.

During his speech, Edwards claimed the president is wrong to believe Americans seek a "wealth society," but instead want a "working society."

Interestingly enough, in Edwards home of North Carolina, workers recently instituted a first-ever state lottery, presumably in an effort to create a little wealth for themselves without work.