I met John Edwards in 1983. It was a virtual meeting to be sure and I didn’t know it was John Edwards at the time but I remember seeing him on the big screen in the form of Martin Sheen playing the role of politician Greg Stillson, a contender for the office of President. To briefly synopsize the story for those who aren’t familiar with the movie, it plays like this:
Johnny Smith, (Christopher Walken) wakes up from an accident with the unusual ability to foresee the future. It’s a gift and a curse because Smith is able to save lives as he can also change the future. It turns out that his larger mission is to save us all from a politician who will someday have his finger on the button…The nuclear button.
Smith decides he must kill Stillson and proceeds to some kind of event (a fundraiser?) and points a rifle at Stillson who shields himself with a baby ending his career forever and saving untold billions of lives.
I’ve always thought of John Edwards as the consummate charlatan. A masterful snake-oil salesman, he convinced jurors in a personal injury lawsuit that he had the mystical powers of a medium and channeled a dead girl in closing arguments. He happily pocketed millions from malpractice insurers and launched his career in politics hoping to use that wonderful gift of persuasion to convince us mere mortals that he’d indeed, be a fine President should John Kerry perish while in office. Or better still, just elect him President in ’08. Why not start at the top?
Well that’s all behind Edwards now. And Edwards wants it all behind just like we want him behind us like a noxious, almost poisonous memory. Like Stillson in the aforementioned movie, it only took a baby to get rid Edwards. Sometimes, it’s the little things, the details that prove important points. In this case, Edwards managed to snow millions of gullible people for years. Millions of others felt our flesh crawl at the mere thought of this hair-primping fraud attaining high office.
By the way, I’ve suddenly become somewhat clairvoyant myself. I just had a vision of John Edwards throwing his Gucci shoe at the television while he watches Bill Clinton give a speech at the Democratic Convention.
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I must add that every time I heard Edward's pontificate about "two America's," I thought of the "little people" in the trailer park across the way from his mansion and my "Snake Oil Salesman" alert went off. Just seeing him with his perfect hair, millionaire suits and silk ties always reminded me of his ambulance chasing background and the MILLIONS he made at the expense of people who paid for private insurance (whose rates went up because of him). My hair stood up on the back of my neck and my skin crawled with repugnance for that charlatan.
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Can you compare and contrast the Edward's affair behind the back of his cancer-addled wife with John McCain's affair with Cindy behind the back of his wheelchair-bound wife?
As I understand it, John McCain was not a public figure running for a national office. Nor can I find a litany of lies emanating from the previous and DISSOLVED marriage of John McCain.
I doubt that you are privy to the details of McCain's alleged misadventure which if I recall correctly, happened around thirty years ago.
Now given that you are interested in what is arguably ancient history, I assume that you condemn Obama TODAY for being an admitted cocaine user many years ago.
Just the mere suggestion that Bush MAY have used cocaine was enough to condemn him in 2000 so the same standard should apply to Obama?
There's quite a difference between a youthful indiscretion and a man PRESENTLY lying during an ongoing campaign for the highest office in the nation. And bear in mind that Elizabeth was enabling John despite her intimate knowledge that her husband was and is a LIAR AND A CHEAT.
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