As y’all know, I pretty well dismissed John Edwards early on, to avoid the rush. Therefore I had nothing to say when he crashed and burned later.
But I do find myself wondering something when I read this:
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A man who once claimed to have fathered the child of John Edwards’ mistress says in a book proposal the former presidential candidate is the real father and that he and Edwards worked with his campaign finance chairman to hide that secret, according to a newspaper report published online Saturday….
What I wonder is, Why would anybody have bothered to lie about that? I mean, if you admit (finally) that the affair happened, why on Earth bother to deny being the father if you were the father? What would be the point? Are we to believe that Edwards was calculating that if we just thought he was fooling around with a woman sufficiently loose as to be carrying on a separate affair with one of his aides while his wife was campaigning her heart out for him during a recurrence of cancer, then just maybe he could salvage his political prospects — but if he was technically (as opposed to morally) responsible for impregnating her, we just couldn’t forgive him?
I don’t know. And I don’t care. But I can assure you that, with or without the sensational teasers, I will not read this book. So don’t bother.
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It really shows what a slow news day this is that I even bothered to read that, much less comment on it…
And be so worked up you forgot periods! Run-on-and-on sentences indicate emotion.
Yeah, I went ahead and read the NYT article yesterday b/c I puzzled over the Dog-Bites-Man header that Edwards was considering acknowledging paternity. I thought the DNA had actually proved it, so what was the big deal? No news.
And I agree, why do we care?
Really, Rielle.
My favorite news day from a decade ago in Honolulu — local non-profit board member violated drug-violation probation by passing bad checks, union boss had investigation launched into crooked accounting and another pair of high-profile non-profit charity board members were caught having sex in a public restroom and one committed suicide. Clear A-1!
Sounds like South Carolina with leis…