Your Cheatin Heart
Previously, I wondered if I had been too hard on John Edwards. A lot of my criticism was based on less-than-credible hunches that he was overly ambitious; even for a presidential hopeful, and insincere to boot. Well, I guess it was also based on his abysmal voting record, meek performance in the VP debate, and his semi-public whining about Kerry’s strategic decisions after the fact.
Maybe we shouldn’t judge a politician’s private life– and at the very least we should view his legacy as the sum of its parts, not just the scandals we’re left reading about. But Edwards cheated on his wife while she was battling cancer and then tried to qualify the cheating in a vain (every sense of the word) attempt to save his future in politics. I’m glad he’s out of a job.
In other news, Obama and Ohio Dems are hitting McCain over the DHL deal in Ohio and Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Obie’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, thinks the DHL story is a game changer. That’s how I felt when I heard about it, and it is certainly getting lots of coverage in the Ohio papers. People always seem to think Obama isn’t throwing enough punches, but it appears to me that he just likes to pick his spots.
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