From the Left

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Nothing like socialism: “It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care. If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.” — John Edwards on his universal-healthcare plan.

Excuses, excuses: “When you have as many contributors as I’m fortunate enough to have, we do the very best job we can based on the information available to us to make appropriate vetting decisions and this one was a big surprise to everybody.” — Hillary **What, no “vast, right-wing conspiracy”?

Au contraire: “No one has alleged any wrongdoing by the Clinton campaign.” — NBC’s Lisa Myers on fishy Clinton donations from a fugitive from justice

The Spin Zone: Modern politics seems to require and reward some capacities that I don t think I have in abundance such as a tolerance for spin rather than an honest discussion of substance. Apparently, it comes easily for some people, but not for me. — global-warming spinmeister Al Gore

“At 81, Castro has outlasted nine U.S. presidents since his 1959 revolution turned Cuba into a thorn in Washington’s side by building a communist society about 90 miles offshore from the United States.” —Reuters **“Well, yes, by staying in power by force, of course Castro has ‘outlasted’ presidents who must face the voters and whose time in office is constitutionally limited.” —James Taranto

“He is not a left wing guy.” — Bill Maher on John Edwards