The viral video of him spending long minutes fussing with his hair…  in front of a mirror should have told Americans all they needed to know about arch-hypocrite and world-champion cheeseball John Edwards.
     Here you have a guy who is good-looking and all too aware of it. Like so many really handsome guys, he thinks some things are his by right. So if it turns out he has boyish good looks –and a middle aged, overweight, sick wife—it is the privilege of attractive men like himself to find sexual release with some other, sexier, younger woman.
     This is how men like him rationalize. They believe their needs are bigger than everyone else’s because of their superiority in other areas (see Clinton, Bill.).

     Here is a guy who runs for president… essentially because he knows he cannot get re-elected as Senator from North Carolina.
     Here is a guy who promotes division between the poor and other Americans, in order that he might become the “champion of the poor.” This is just a variation on his trial lawyer racket. He whips up a grievance and then goes hunting for the “deep pockets,”
     Here is John Edwards, champion of the little guy, who happens to live in a rural palace the size of some smaller high schools, and who cannot stand that someone is living in an unsightly trailer across the street.
     Here is a guy who charged $50,000 to give a speech on poverty.
     Here is the crusader against the hedge funds and –oops—here is his work for one: http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2007/07/25/john-edwards-phoneyism/. But that was to learn about how hedge funds relate to poverty in the United States…

     Here is a guy who can tell the public not to vote for him because his wife has cancer… but whose campaign website directed visitors to leave sympathy notes for the Edwardses and which contained a heart-rending letter from “Elizabeth and John” about their ordeal… Uh-huh. And this is the same Elizabeth he cheated on. This is raising hypocrisy to the level of Olympic gymnastics.

     Here is the guy who met with John Kerry in 2004 to interview for the vice presidential spot on the Democratic ticket and…

Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he’d never told anyone else—that after his son Wade had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he’d do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade’s ideals of service. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the same exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before—and with the same preface, that he’d never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling…

http://2008central.net/2007/05/31/bob-shrum-blasts-edwards-in-new-book/

     Let it be noted that when Ann Coulter inferred three years ago that Edwards was using his dead son politically, a storm broke over her head. How dare she! Elizabeth Edwards (who by now, we are told, knew of her husband’s infidelity) called in to her on the Chris Matthews show to take her to task for her “personal” attack.

     It was the lowly National Enquirer… as everyone knows by now, that broke the story, and it is the Enquirer’s grocery-line tabloid status that persuaded the big media outlets either not to try to verify the story or to do such a poor job reporting as they did.
     In The New York Times, editors and reporters from major media say they couldn’t find the evidence for a story when they looked. In other words, they were out-reported professionally by the Enquirer’s people?

     Here’s what you and I know: If it had been Mitt Romney, or John McCain with that woman, the story would have been rushed to press. The Times front-paged a super-thin gruel of rumor and innuendo about McCain and a woman lobbyist some months ago –only to have said story end up all over their faces in short order.
     The Enquirer had Edwards in October, before the primary season. If he had been forced out of the race early, what might that have done to the nominating process? Might Hillary Clinton have won the delegates as well as the popular vote? We’ll never know.
     Just because Edwards later dropped out of the race was no excuse for the media not to go after this story. Until yesterday, he was still a possible Obama cabinet pick and could have played a role, however small, at the convention. He was still news.
      But he wasn’t a Republican. So the big media let the matter slide.