I spent the day riding a bike around Martha’s Vineyard, I am burnt to a crisp (why do I think when riding a bike I will not get sunburnt?), and I come back to our Bed & Breakfast across the sound in Falmouth to find out this has finally broke.
So Edwards admits to the affair, and in the process denies the child is his, and says “I didn’t love her” as if that excuses the entire thing. I didn’t believe this story at first because, you know, it was the National Enquirer. But then I listened to Bill Press on Thursday morning as I was driving up here, and he made a very good point: if this was not true, why has John Edwards not sued the National Enquirer for defamation, given the fact that he is a trial lawyer? And now we know the answer.
FUCK JOHN EDWARDS.
I never have liked him, and I never would have supported him during either of his presidential campaigns. In fact, on Daily Kos, I once called him a real communist due to his talk about a global redistribution of wealth, which led to an epic flame war.
I don’t really care what he does in his private life. If he wants to screw around, fine. I don’t agree with it, obviously, but it’s ultimately between him and Elizabeth.
But he chose to be a presidential candidate, cheating on a wife with cancer, and then running for the Democratic nomination with that fact tucked away waiting to break out as an October surprise. Not only is that an incredibly selfish act, but he could have single-handedly given us another 8 years of Republican rule if he won the primaries.
Add that to the fact that he condemned Bill Clinton in 1999:
“I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.” — John Edwards, Feb. 12, 1999
His hubris makes my blood boil. To think that he ran with this secret thinking he wouldn’t endanger not just the presidency but this country too is just repulsive. Thank God he is done.