A Legacy of Losing By Jeffrey Lord
The line is from the first Pirates of the Caribbean spectacular, blurted aloud by an uneasy sailor aboard a ship of the British Navy. The seaman voices a nautical fear that the presence of a woman on board (in this case the young Elizabeth Swann) is bad luck.
John Edwards may be dubbed the "Breck Girl" by Rush Limbaugh, but his real problem -- the problem Democrats should be thinking about even if they can't bring themselves to just say it -- is the real world political legacy of Edwards' brisk sail towards abject surrender in the War on Terror. Even more terrifying for the dwindling ban of FDR, Truman, and JFK followers should be the enthusiasm of all the other Democratic candidates as they elbow each other aside in their frantic quest to climb aboard the Democratic ship as the leading anti-war candidate for 2008.
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