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August 9th, 2008
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The Edwards Affair
August 9th, 2008
It’s just disgusting and gut-wrenching. I think Blake Dvorak gets it exactly right:
… Edwards was a presidential candidate while he was having an affair. His conduct was not just a disgrace to the highest office for which he felt qualified, but also to a party that, had it nominated him, would have reaped the fallout we’re seeing today. Edwards’ candidacy never took off, but if it did, as he and millions of his supporters wanted it to, then today might have been one of the the darkest days of the Democratic Party.
Did Edwards consider that? He must have, and he must have ignored it. And then he lied and tried to cover it up. As the ABC News story notes, Rielle Hunter has been living “under assumed names in a series of expensive homes in North Carolina and, more recently, in Santa Barbara, California.” Edwards denies paying her off, but said it’s possible friends and associates might have. It’s actions like these which give the public every reason to question Edwards’ integrity — a key characteristic most would argue for a president — and not excuse it as “just sex.”
That, I think, is why Edwards’ political career is now over. All politicians who want to become president have an ego problem, but what is asked of them is to sacrifice part of themselves for the greater good — whether that be a political party or an entire nation. By his actions, Edwards has shown he wasn’t able to do that: He was willing to ruin the hopes of his party and the trust of his family and voters to win the highest prize.
I really wanted to like Edwards, and his message about the divide between the haves and have-nots is one that needs to get more attention. Edwards’ political career deserves to die. I just hope that message doesn’t die with it.
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