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The judge running this circus is an Obama appointee.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/05/is-john-edwards-flirting-with-a-female-juror/
“”On Thursday the alternates – three women and one man – caused something of a stir when they showed up in matching bright yellow shirts, hardly bothering to suppress their snickering as the judge addressed the main panel of jurors. Today they are all wearing red.

For nearly four weeks, 16 jurors heard all the evidence in Edwards’ case. After the closing arguments, Judge Catherine Eagles made the unorthodox decision to extend the service of the four alternate jurors, while the primary panel of 12 deliberated the six felony charges. So for the last five days of deliberations, the gang of four alternates has been required to show up at court each day, sent to a holding room with instructions to avoid talking about the case.

Anytime the jurors are in the courtroom, the judge calls the alternates down to keep them apprised of the status of deliberations. And the alternates are also sent to lunch every afternoon with the rest of the jurors...””

“The judge running this circus is an Obama appointee.”

IMHO, that is NOT good news for Edwards. As I look at this Edwards is being prosecuted for using a campaign donation to pay off his mistress. The problem is that the money for the mistress was never deposited to the campaign account, Edwards never actually had any control of the funds, and the money was not at all used for a campaign expense.

I don’t think this would have been prosecuted under Bush because there’s not much to the case when you really look at it.

That said, I think this was an act of political assassination by the Obama team to neutralize a potential adversary for this year’s Democrat nomination. Edwards, as a former VP candidate, is in the Democrat’s chain of apparent succession and by prosecuting Edwards, even if the case loses, Obama has taken out another political opponent just like he did in his Senate race.