So John Edwards had an affair while his wife was in remission from cancer. Frankly, I don't care. It's his life and if he wants to screw it up, that's his call. And, yes, the pun is intended: puns have been called the lowest form of humor, an appropriate form for John Edwards' behavior and then lying about it.
When a person in a high-profile position violates his integrity, especially when he claims to be representing the integrity of the common citizen (as Edwards did during his campaign), it becomes news.
I feel for his family. Everyone feels for his family. Few seem to care any more about Edwards.
But that has nothing to do with the upcoming presidential election. Except insofar as Edwards had been running for the Democratic nomination to be president. David Gergen, whom I really like and whose views are very insightful, said it as well as it can be said: had Edwards been successful and become the Democratic presidential nominee, it would have ruined the Democrats' chances of winning the White House.
Edwards' behavior in having an affair would have been enough to sink his own chances. But the videotapes of his constantly denying that he had one would have brought the entire Democratic ship down. How can a person be so self-absorbed that he forsakes all reality of integrity and jeopardizes not only his own future and his family's future, but the future of all he has claimed to represent in his career?
Here's the irony.
The National Enquirer broke the story. The National Enquirer develped sources and tailed him and followed through in every way possible to get this story. That shouldn't surprise us. But, had John Edwards been successful in his campaign to become the Democratic presidential nominee...
are you ready...?
are you really ready for this...?
are you SURE you're really ready for this...?
the National Enquirer might have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Journalism.
Ta DAH!
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