In
2007, as the Democratic candidates for President went through what Romney and
Gingrich are going through these days, I was pretty impressed with John
Edwards, champion of the poor and neglected, and with his sweet wife, Elizabeth.
by Charlie Leck
by Charlie Leck
I was really
taken by John Edwards in 2007 and how convincingly he talked about his
commitment to the poor and ignored people of America. He seemed so genuine and
sincere. So did his wife, Elizabeth.
“These are the
kind of people,” I thought, “that we need in the White House.” I wrote it
proudly, here on this blog!
By the end of
the year, I began to see through John Edwards. I had discovered he was a
scalawag, worthless piece of shit, and I had figured out that he was a phony
and not nearly as bright as I thought he was. A lot of it began with is $400
haircuts. Some things about his wife began to ring untrue as well.
I transitioned
over to Barack Obama after a short flirtation (probably not a good word to use
here) with Hillary.
Now the John Edwards trial…
We are all finding out just how egocentric and narcissistic John Edwards really was (is) – how vacuous and insincere. He was, as some friends of mine like to say, “just an empty suit – expensive as the suits were!” John Edwards was as phony as a wooden nickel – as phony as a three dollar bill – as phony as a carnival barker.
We are all finding out just how egocentric and narcissistic John Edwards really was (is) – how vacuous and insincere. He was, as some friends of mine like to say, “just an empty suit – expensive as the suits were!” John Edwards was as phony as a wooden nickel – as phony as a three dollar bill – as phony as a carnival barker.
I don’t like to
be fooled. I hate worse to be made a fool of. John Edwards did both to me.
If you want to
understand my anger and embarrassment, you only need to read Maureen Dowd’s
column in the New York Times: Brutality
of Servility. I sat
in a Starbucks this morning, with the
New York Times spread open before me
as I sipped on my morning latté. I seethed as loudly as those espresso machines
that the baristas were working.
“What a bum!
What a piece of crap,” I thought to myself. “Put him away and the hell with
him!”
“In the winter
of 2007, as Edwards campaigned for the presidency in Iowa, he still found time
to check up on his pregnant girlfriend, Rielle Hunter, who was on the lam and
with fall guy Andrew Young and his family, zooming around in private jets to
luxe resorts and haciendas in Aspen, Santa Barbara and Florida.”
What a jerk I
was! Maureen Dowd crushes the truth about Edwards right over my scalp and
describes the major question in the courtroom…
“Everyone’s
arguing whether Edwards is a swindler or merely a swine.”
While the world
was falling apart all around him – during that campaign – John Edwards was
unable to realize it because, as Dowd says, “John, of course, loved John…”
Dowd concludes
her column with a slap in the face – my face!
“It’s a trial
without heroes, just liars and an abhorrent trio of selfish people trying to
spin the story their own way.”
I need to do
something to make myself feel better, so I guess I’ll go stick my head in a tub
of boiling tar!
Those clear,
twinkling eyes and that wide, toothy, confident smile fooled the hell out of
me. The poor and neglected in America were his biggest concern, he said. And I
believed him.
As an old
Hungarian friend used to say of my naiveté: “Sometimes you can be one dumb,
some-of-a-bitch!”
Angrily, I
pushed the newspaper aside and it tipped over my cup of hot latté – right into
my lap.
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