Okay, so John Edwards is a creep who slept around on his dying wife, then lied repeatedly to his staff, his supporters, and the press for months. So there's that issue. But you know what really chaps my ass? The fact that Edwards really was nothing more than a goddamned impostor, a slimeball who used the working poor to fuel the career of John Edwards.
The organization, the Center for Promise and Opportunity, raised $1.3 million in 2005, and—unlike a sister charity he created to raise scholarship money for poor students—the main beneficiary of the center’s fund-raising was Mr. Edwards himself, tax filings show...
I always felt like Mitt Romney and John Edwards were kindred spirits, a couple of well-coiffed hucksters who made a shit ton of money in the private sector and decided to get into politics for the simple purpose of feeding their massive egos. Masters of the creepy, just-leave-me-alone hard-sell, they're the used car salesman who runs after your car when you accidentally pull into their lot and won't let you leave until you take a business card.
Edwards of course lost his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination this year, and guess what happened to his big anti-poverty initiative? That’s right–it appears he pulled the plug on it.
I could really, at the end of the day, give a shit about his marital infidelities. But sadly they fed into and reinforced the same negative image of Edwards that many on the right - and on the left - have always had of him: narcissistic, insincere, selfish, and phony. Our nation desperately needs an honest advocate for the working class and the millions of our children in poverty. But presidential poseurs who use poverty to climb into the national stage and drop it when their fortunes turn sour can suck a bowl of dick.