Elizabeth Edwards "afraid of Republican neighbor"

This is too funny. A neighbor of Elizabeth Edwards, wife of John Edwards, Presidential candidate, is afraid of her "rabid, rabid Republican" neighbor because he brandished a gun during an incident that the police didn't prosecute him for? She admits she's never met him and she wouldn't be nice to him if she did.

"I wouldn't be nice to him, anyway," Edwards said in an interview. "I don't want my kids anywhere near some guy who, when he doesn't like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out. It scares the business out of me."

But Johnson defended the occasion he brandished a gun, saying those on his land didn't have the proper approval.

So the guy had intruders on his land and he defended it with a gun. I don't see a problem here other than her trying to make him and other Republicans sound like gun toting weirdos. Why else would she even MENTION that he's a Republican?

Later on down the article she complains of the condition of his property.

Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.

Tell me that doesn't reek of elitism. This man was there before they were too. His family bought their property before the Great Depression, while the Edwards' bought theirs in 2003. My favorite comment is this one:

"I have to budget. I have to live within my means," Johnson said. "I don't have millions of dollars to fix the place." "I thought he was supposed to be for the poor people," Johnson said. "But does he ever socialize with any poor people? He doesn't speak to me."

Why yes Mr. Johnson, Democrats are SUPPOSED to be for the poor, but when it comes down to it, they don't appear that way do they? Who put money in your pocket with tax cuts and refunds? Who cut business taxes for your car garage you run on your property? That's right, Republicans did. And that's why Mr. Johnson has a "Go Rudy Guilani 2008" sign on his front lawn right in next to the Edwards' driveway. :)

Travis
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