It's not him, it's how he was used.
John "The Breck Girl" Edwards: "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
That's pathetic. I have a lot of compassion for Reeve and others like him still living. Sad to see them used by the opportunists.
Thanks for saving me the time of finding that Breck Girl quote. What nobody seems to remember, though, is that Edwards made that outrageous claim on the occasion of Reeve's death.
So, given the circumstances, as outlandish as it may seem, Edwards implied -- inadvertantly? -- that he and John F'in would resurrect Reeve, then cure him. Otherwise, the claim made no sense; no way a dead man is going to walk anywhere.