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Saturday, August 09, 2008
You Read it Here First
A quick flashback.
As I said before, the problem with John Edwards isn't merely that he cheats on his dying wife, it's that he's an ambulance-chasing fraud of the first order and, more to the point, an absolute creep on a level that almost defies description:
Kerry talked with several potential picks, including Gephardt and Edwards. He was comfortable after his conversations with Gephardt, but even queasier about Edwards after they met. Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he'd never told anyone else—that after his son Wade had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he'd do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade's ideals of service. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the same exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before—and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling, and he decided he couldn't pick Edwards unless he met with him again.
Good God. These are the sort of men who the Democrat Party would have lead the world.
Never mind the idiocy of this spin attempt. If Edwards slept with her only briefly in 2006 and isn't the father of her child, why was he meeting her in a Los Angeles hotel room in the middle of the night last month? Get real.
Posted by Adam T. Yoshida on August 9, 2008 in International Politics | Permalink
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Keep it up Adam.
You're that close to be hired by ET and who knows, why not cnn. Oh by the way, today, a war started between Georgia and Russia and the Olympics began in China.
Posted by: Marc | 2008-08-09 1:02:34 AM
What Edwards does in his private life is his business alone. In return all we would ask is that he not mind our business.
Posted by: TM | 2008-08-09 9:45:36 AM
Edwards is a dumb blond trapped in a narcissistic faggot's body.
Thank heavens his political career seems to be at an end.
Posted by: John V | 2008-08-09 9:53:31 AM
A cold bastard. He lied, straight faced. He had an affair while his wife is facing death. I'm sad to admit my own brother did the same thing, and I'll never forgive him for it. Luckily, his story didn't make the National Enquirer, and his kids didn't find out.
Posted by: dp | 2008-08-09 3:32:20 PM
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