Is John Edwards' Fall a Tragedy?

Townhall.com ^ | June 7, 2011 | Mona Charen

[sodpoodle]

In the mold of Charlie Manson!!

Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

[sport]

Not as far as I am concerned. Or, to put it another way, not for me.

[Rummyfan]

He might have been, the Post laments, "a great husband, could have been an enduring statesman ... president."

Only the Com-Post would be naive enough not to have recognized Edwards as a snake-oil salesman the day he stepped into the public spotlight. Great husband? Enduring statesman? President? He was a sleazy malpractice lawyer who played on juries sympathies to win large settlements on grounds not based in medical science, and parlayed that money into a US Senate seat. What would anyone expect from someone with such a background, that he would suddenly grow morals and a conscience?

[Rummyfan]

No one who examined his career as a fortune-hunting, slick, and unscrupulous trial lawyer should find any inconsistency in his later incarnation as a manipulative, mendacious, and morally bankrupt politician.

Such investigation is beyond the skill of any Washington Post reporter.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Katie Couric was impressed by more than his looks: "He was the first to raise issues like poverty, universal health care and climate change," she said.

You see, she was once molested by Karl Marx.

[Rummyfan]

Nicholas Lemann of The New Yorker called him "the next Bill Clinton" -- without irony.

Damning with faint praise! Or consigning to damnation...

[Kaslin]

I agree

[DeaconRed]

For low life's that want an attorney to sue over a fake fall at Wall-mart it is one hell of a tragedy.
To the rest of us it is funny as hell. I am going to invest in soap-on-a-rope. . . . . .

[Farmer Dean]

Predictable and not unexpected,but certainly not a tragedy.
(Unless you happen to be one of his children.)

[BwanaNdege]

Fall?

Fall?

More like a Swan dive, or maybe a triple back gainer, or maybe a “Hold my beer, Bubba, and watch THIS!”

The idiot DOVE into the “mosh pit” and in the end, learned that the floor was concrete.

[Doogle]

tragedy?...ONLY IF YOUR A LIBTARD.

[miss marmelstein]

Well, Mona, if politicians such as John Edwards turn your stomach, why do you continually throw a pol like Sarah Palin under the bus? ‘Cause in the end she’s not a slow-speaking, slow-thinking, boring, extremely homely Ivy League mandarin like you.

[BobL]

A tragedy is when your 2 year old kid runs out on to the street and is killed by a car. A suicide is when you run out on to the street and get hit by a car.

[mulligan]

No. What should happen to a sleazy person like Edwards.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He’ll be missed (NOT)

[ViLaLuz]

It’s a tragedy only for his children.

[AppyPappy]

In a literary sense, it is the classic tragedy

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The press built him up and now they’re in the process of tearing him down. He was never what they said he was when they were singing his praises and therefore the “fall from grace” rings totally hollow. But whatever.

[ETL]

John Edwards awarded 'Father of the Year'
Democrat received honor about 8 months before alleged love child born

Where was John Edwards around the time his alleged "love child" Frances Quinn Hunter was conceived?

The senator was in New York – receiving his Father of the Year Award.

Edwards accepted his June 27, 2007, honor from the Father's Day/Mother's Day Council exactly eight months before the child was born Feb. 27, 2008, according to a birth certificate obtained by the Charlotte Observer.

Before beginning his Father of the Year acceptance speech, Edwards told an adoring crowd, "I hate to admit it, but I am not the best parent in my family. ..."

VIDEO at site!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71460

Or, from the Edwards camp itself...

From JohnEdwards.com:
John Edwards receives the Father of the Year Award in New York, N.Y. on June 7, 2007.
http://www.johnedwards.com/media/video/father-of-the-year/