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Edwards to speak Tuesday (John Edwards to Re-Enter Politics?)
The Brown Daily Herald ^ | March 6, 2009 | PJ-Comix

Posted on 03/07/2009 4:02:59 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Former Senator John Edwards will speak in Salomon 101 next Tuesday after cancelling a separate lecture here last fall.

Edwards was scheduled to give the Gov. Frank Licht '38 Lecture last fall at Brown. But after he admitted in August to having an extramarital affair with a campaign staffer, Edwards cancelled all speaking engagements until the November elections, saying in a statement that he did not want to distract from the presidential campaign.

Professor of Political Science Marion Orr, who oversees the Licht Lecture series as director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy, said there was "mutual agreement" with the Edwards camp that the lecture should not go forward in light of the controversy.

The Licht Lecture was rescheduled for April and will feature Democratic strategist Donna Brazile.

Edwards spoke at Indiana University immediately after the election and at a private conference in California. But since then, the former senator has kept a low public profile.

The upcoming lecture, sponsored by the Brown Lecture Board, is not related to the cancelled Licht lecture, Orr said.

Andrew Chapin '10, a president of the lecture board, said Edwards has not informed the board of "an official speech topic."

A vice president for the Harry Walker Agency, Edwards' booking agency, declined to comment in an e-mail to The Herald.

But a profile on the Harry Walker Agency's Web site advertises Edwards' standard speaking topic as "America: The Land of Opportunity," about the moral imperative to offer all members of society access to the American dream. Edwards grew up in poverty and became a prominent trial lawyer before entering politics.

"He's always had a mission, and his mission … is to promote economic quality," Associate Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller said of Edwards. "My guess is that he's hoping to deliver that message."

"He won't be critical of the administration at all," Schiller predicted.

Edwards is known for his populist rhetoric, while the federal government has bailed out large financial institutions with hundreds of billions of dollars in recent months.

Schiller said she believes Edwards is motivated by issue advocacy rather than any attempt to return to higher office. "I don't see an electoral role for him at all in the near term," she said.

Free tickets to the event will be distributed from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today and 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday in the J. Walter Wilson mail room.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: johnedwards
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To: outofstyle
What Whom is he planning to re-enter?
21 posted on 03/07/2009 4:40:35 PM PST by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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Edwards will be speaking on the benefits of withdrawing early. His assistant would not say if this was in regard to his presidential campaign or something else.


22 posted on 03/07/2009 5:12:02 PM PST by oldbill
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What is the status of John Edward’s affair? Has he taken a DNA test? Is he paying child support? Inquiring minds want to know, even if the mainstream media isn’t interested anymore.


23 posted on 03/07/2009 5:16:16 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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Giving his speech from the bathroom?


24 posted on 03/07/2009 5:54:01 PM PST by bikerman (Obama lied;the Country died.)
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Isn’t the little tyke approaching his first birthday?

“Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa? Gone to the White House, Ha Ha Ha!”

(Brickbats thrown at Grover Cleveland (D) during the 1884 presidential race).


25 posted on 03/07/2009 6:32:29 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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How’s the bastard child doing John?


26 posted on 03/07/2009 6:45:30 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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He’s like a cockroach. Just when you think you’ve killed them all you walk in to the kitchen, flip on the light, and there’s one scurrying across the floor.


27 posted on 03/07/2009 7:03:22 PM PST by yazoo
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I suspect the unwritten story here is that Edwards threatened to sue to get his speaking fee, claiming that Brown was attempting to breach his contract.

And Brown figures that its better to pay him to speak rather than defend their actions in court.

So Brown represents a one-time payday for Edwards, who must be feeling the pinch from the Obama economy too.

But there is otherwise ZERO demand for Edwards as a speaker. The college speaking tour gravy-train is the politician class 401K, but Edwards blew it by falling in love with himself.


28 posted on 03/07/2009 7:35:05 PM PST by WL-law
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So Brown represents a one-time payday for Edwards, who must be feeling the pinch from the Obama economy too.

Did Edwards entrust his fortune to Bernie Madoff?

29 posted on 03/08/2009 4:14:31 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (JUMBY WANTS TO BE BORN NOW!!!)
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