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Silky Pony: Give up your SUV’s, while I keep my big a$$ house

Seriously, dude, I really want to ignore you, but you just won’t let me, you magnificent ba$tard! From WLOS:

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.

The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.

Edwards says Americans should be asked to drive more fuel efficient vehicles. He says he would ask them to give up SUVs.

You’ll have to forgive WLOS, a western NC news outfit, for not being ready for primetime. After all, they left out the rest of the article (helpfully finished by FNC):

He also said as president he would ask residents to conserve energy and said the U.S. needs to focus on being a leader in creating alternative energy. He said he wants a national cap on carbon dioxide emissions that is lowered each year.

“We are the worst polluter on the planet. We are 4 percent of the world’s population, we’re putting out 25 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas,” Edwards said. “America’s going to have to change.”

Edwards was asked during his appearance how he explained the contradiction of asking Americans to sacrifice while he’s living in a 28,000-square-foot (2,600-square-meter) mansion.

He said he came from nothing, worked hard all his life, has always supported workers and fought big corporations as a lawyer.

“I have no apologies whatsoever for what I’ve done with my life,” he said to loud cheers. “My entire life has been about the same cause, which is making sure wherever you come from, whatever your family is, whatever the color of your skin, you get a real chance to do something great in this country.”

So Silky is saying that he did “something great” (you know, suing businesses and doctors for his own personal enrichment? That’s really “something great”!) to get that energy hog he lives in, which I’m just sure doesn’t contribute a thing to that pollution level he bitches about. However, if you drive an SUV, you did “nothing great” with your life to earn enough to buy that SUV. Got that? Breck Girl = great, you = not so much. Thanks for clearing that up, you hypocritical well-coiffed shameless jerk.

UPDATE at 1:37 p.m. EST: Well, well, well. Lookie here. Obviously Silk’s not just a hypocrite when it comes to his carbon-slurping house…but he owns an SUV himself!

Edwards, happy to promote his energy-efficient Escape, also still owns a 2004 Chrysler Pacifica midsize SUV and a 1994 GMC truck, according to state vehicle registration records.

Campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said the Edwardses, who have two small children, use the Pacifica when they need more than two seat belts in the back, and the truck when they need to move furniture or haul something.

In other words, Johnny Boy only uses his gas hogs when he deems it necessary…as opposed to us peons, who use our gas hogs when we, um, don’t deem it necessary? Or as Hot Air quips: “Because a big Green candidate needs a big, fuel-slurping SUV. (Nobody else does, though.)”

August 29, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | hypocrisy, John Edwards