One of the big items in current news is that The National Enquirer has reported that, not only did former Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards have an affair, as we've known for some time, but that he had a "love child."
It makes me sad when one of the many scandals that have tarred public figures, especially elected officials, affects a Democrat. We liberals can chuckle to ourselves when some righteous, morality-advocating Republican gets caught with his pants down (sometimes almost literally); but we'd rather not hear of an instance when it's a Democrat.
But what's especially interesting is that the publisher of this news is The National Enquirer, a so-called supermarket tabloid. This is the paper that not only repeatedly has some scandal to report about show business people—that their marriages are breaking up, that they've gained or lost weight, that they are the child of someone whom we didn't know—ad nauseam.
And it's also the paper with headlines about space aliens, conspiracies, cover-ups, and so forth. We have tended to dismiss them as not respectable, certainly not credible, and only appealing to the very credulous.
Now, however, we have to look at the Enquirer in a different light. They have said that they worked on the Edwards story for a year. "Pulitzer Prize" and the name of the Enquirer have been mentioned in the same sentence.
Who woulda thunk it? What is the world coming to?
Copyright © 2010 by Richard Stein
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I'm pretty sure that I heard this week that John Edwards and his wife had separated. I was an early supporter of John Edwards in his bid for the White House and was very let down by not only by his conduct but his lack of ethics. John Edwards had been highly critical of Bill Clintons infidelity and what is most disturbing is that Edwards remarks regarding Clinton came while he was stepping out himself. People in office in some respects forgo their privacy and are accountable to the public 24/7. As unfair as this seems these politicians know how politics works and how easily they can go from being a poster boy one day to finding themselves in a dog house the next. I don't especially like seeing intelligent and popular democrats shoot themselves in the foot. However, if they do I say it was as much a damned fool thing for them to do as it been someone else. I can't help but wonder as a voter about the extent of lies told by someone in office who has been caught up in them. My gut feeling is that when rascals get caught with their pants down it's their ass that needs covered and they who put themselves in the hot seat. I don't like being sweet talked and lied to at the same time anymore than their betrayed wives.
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