"If you can't be a leader in your own home, you can't be a leader to a country."
All those heart-tugging stories about how his life was so changed over his son's devastating death, how it inspired him to do good in the world, to inspire others to greater and nobler causes.
He wanted to be OUR leader, our torch bearer, our guiding representative. But if you can't be a leader in your own home, you can't be a leader to a country.
We've all had the debates since Clinton's fellatioscapades in the Oval Office-- should a President also be a moral and ethical leader? We all have our opinions, but i would believe that the majority of Americans would say: "yes".
And so not soon after Elizabeth's cancer diagnosis-- John Edwards couldn't resist getting naked with the next attractive woman who was willing to sneak into the hotel with him.
How many other women have there been? Edwards is an attractive guy, i would find it hard to believe that Hunter was the only woman who made advances on the guy. Because he's proven not only to be a adulterer, he's also an committed liar by campaigning and taking money from his supporters who had faith and trust in his integrity.
Yeah, yeah i know-- "ye without sin, be first to cast stones" and all that. I've failed in the honesty and integrity department before. But i've never had false beliefs or aspirations to be a community leader, much less a Nation's leader.
While i believe we are all deserving of equal rights and respect-- there is no question that there are those of us who are just more outstanding and excellent.... in physical qualities, in intellect, and in ethics.
And it is those of the upper gamut of excellence that i would support to be my leader. Those who i trust in to make decisions that are better and more deeply analyzed than what i am capable of on my own.
John Edwards sought the part of our ultimate leader. He projected the image of rarefied intellect, and of moral and ethical excellence.... all the while knowing he fell far short of the bar. An actor, a fraud.
John Edwards, you wasted my time and my money when i worked so hard to support you along side John Kerry in 2004, and as recently as 2007 in the nomination race.
Shame on you John Edwards for defrauding your supporters.
But at least you nailed it in your admission--"egotistic and narcissistic". But it wasn't just for a period of sexual indiscretion. Because egotistic and narcissistic is what you ARE-- and some would argue that it is a virulent and cancerous disease of the personality that leads to personal self-destruction. It is your disease. There is no cure, just an acknowledgement that you have it. Like a recovered alcoholic is always one drink away from a drunk. You can only accept and remember everyday that you are a self-absorbed, self-centered personality prone to thinking or your own gratification first and above all others.
You have much to learn from Elizabeth. So shut your mouth, stay home, and devote being a servant to your wife and your kids.
It's not our's or "the Lord's" forgiveness you need, it's your family's.
THANK GOD WE DIDN'T MAKE HIM THE NOMINEE!!! OR WE'D BE STARING AT PRESIDENT McCAIN FOR THE NEXT 4 YEARS OF OUR COUNTRY'S PERILOUS COURSE!!