“One of the things we ought to be thinking about is some level of mandatory service to our country, so that everybody in America — not just the poor kids who get sent to war — are serving this country.”

- John “$400 haircut” Edwards

I find it fascinating that a man who has spent $400 on a haircut on more than one occasion can have the guile to say he is the poor mans candidate. Could that money not have been spent better elsewhere? Maybe it could have been sent to, I don’t know, a charity that helps the poor? Or something? Anything but a freakin’ haircut!!!  Hell, it would have been spent better on his campaign.
So now he proposes mandatory military service for all Americans. Americans who supposedly live in the most free country on this earth. I wonder if slavery is one of the requirements of a free country. After all, forcing someone to work for you — whether you have the guns of government behind you or not — is still slavery.

I wonder if Edwards and his buddies in congress are included in this mandatory service. Or are they too good?  Maybe their congressional experience counts as service? And what about their families? I’m sure they will be exempt. If not, they will probably get a nice comfy job behind a desk somewhere. And guess what? It will still be the poor kids out there fighting the battles. Please people, don’t buy into this crap. If you want to keep any semblance of freedom in this country — and trust me, there is not much of it left to loose after Bush Jr’s decimation of the constitution — then please do not support this guy.