Tag Archives: John Edwards

Isn’t it romantic

William Saletin at Slate is a lone voice crying out in the wilderness in support of Mark Sanford. Saletin quotes the meae culpae of Bill Clinton, John Edwards and John Ensign, each of whom followed “the first rule of adultery redemption: minimize the affair” by blaming errors in judgment and speaking of his wife [...]

That’s the best John Edwards could do?

Normally, I moralize. I am filled with righteous indignation about this, that and everything. But today my shallow side has won out, and I find myself staring, aghast, at the skanky blonde who is pretty boy John Edwards’s undoing, and asking myself, “For heaven’s sake, couldn’t he do better than that?”
Yes, yes, I [...]