Quite frankly, I don’t watch any MTV “Rock the Vote” or candidate related crap because I think the idea of encouraging a bunch of people who are entertained by “The Hills” and “My Super Sweet 16″ to vote is the quickest way to bring down the Republic. The last thing any candidate should be worried about are the policy concerns of the illiterate, half retarded MTV loving masses who shouldn’t be allowed within twenty miles of a voting booth. In any event, hypocrite that I am, I tuned in last year to watch John Kerry answer questions about rap music and it was just about one of the most horrifically awkward things I’ve ever witnessed. There’s really nothing like watching a bunch of stuffy old white men who “once saw some Africans” in a National Geographic. Anyway, in his sit-down session, Kerry suggested that the elderly, stuffy white male population “better start paying attention, because rap music has something to say.” Word!  It was a feat that was unlikely to ever be surpassed.

AND THEN came John Edwards. It appears Kerry’s  passed the “concerned white male” torch to John Edwards, and predictably, Jiminy Cricket Edwards doused it in lighter fluid….

Asked about what he could do about “inner-city kids partaking in violence” at the MTV/MySpace Forum yesterday, Democratic candidate John Edwards offered an apocalyptic prediction for young black males:

“We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”

Edwards finished it off by explaining how much he loves Newports, Watermelon, and KFC, before launching into a tale about how his black nanny used to sing him old Negro spirituals until he fell asleep…or until she got arrested for stealing…because you know, they’re all criminals, and pretty soon there won’t be any left if “the man” has anything to do with it.

Power to the People