Posted on 01/30/2010 10:05:48 AM PST by Schnucki
The John Edwards scandal is not just about sex, argues Toby Harnden in Washington. It's about why Americans have lost trust in the political class.
Even judged alongside the caddishness and sexual misdeeds of politicians through the ages, John Edwards will take some beating. Just when it seems that the pretty boy former Senator and 2004 vice-presidential candidate can sink no lower, a fresh revelation emerges.
We now know that Edwards cheated on his cancer-stricken wife by having an affair with Rielle Hunter, a New Age loon he met in a New York bar and then employed as a campaign videographer. He branded this "false", "untrue", "ridiculous" and "tabloid trash" until he was confronted with proof.
He then denied that he sired Hunter's two-year-old daughter Quinn, instead insisting that the father was Andrew Young, a long-time personal aide who he had paid to keep up the fiction.
That lie crumbled when Young decided to write a tell-all book, due out this week, and Edwards issued a statement that it was "wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me".
As ever with Edwards, it was all about him.
In the book, Young also reveals that Edwards, whose 2008 presidential campaign was an indignant crusade against poverty, would complain about going to events where "fat rednecks try to shove food down my face".
At one point he asked: "I know I'm the people's Senator, but do I have to hang out with them?"
Edwards, an Atkins Dieter, was already famous for his $400 haircuts. Young recounts that his boss would demand "HairTec Thick & Strong Shampoo for Fine, Fragile Hair".
When Young demanded money to cover the costs of keeping Hunter in hiding, Edwards responded that he could come
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This article says nothing that is already not well known.
The journalist author just needed to make a buck.
Journalists are even lower scum than politicians.
Rule of thumb I suppose....the more pious in their outword behavior, the more vile they are in reality. I’m glad the author of the article used the term ‘political class.’
What an @$$->O
I like that. Politicians are not part of us, We the People.
aka MOONBAT! ROFL, the silky pony is headed to the glue factory.
It’s not about cheating on his wife, it’s bout his absolute contempt for every day Americans. Sure, Sanford and the others cheated on their wives but what about the “Made in America” label etc.? I have contempt for the political class but let’s face it the likes of Edwards, Pelosi, Obama, Reid and most of the Dems are far worse.
“...hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me”.
Oh, I think the day will come when she will understand perfectly - to wit, that if her father could have gotten away with denying her altogether, he would have done so and would still be doing so.
If the Pony is our ultimate politician, I know I’m on record as absolutely detesting this next sentence but...we’re screwed.
Worse than that, she’ll know that her dad tried to convince her mom to kill her in utero.
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