Television news has forced me to watch daily reports about
the trial of John Edwards, the former presidential candidate who was being
tried for misusing campaign money for personal reasons. The big question facing
jurors was whether he used campaign money to hide his affair from his wife and
the public and not for his presidential campaign.
I was amazed that this misuse of funds could cost him 30
years in jail. To me the whole trial was a super waste of taxpayer dollars and
had nothing to do with putting a dangerous criminal away; it was about
prosecutors that wanted their names in the paper so they can later run for
higher office.
What prompted me to write about this case was not the case
but actually his speech on the courthouse steps after he was acquitted; for
some reason what he said bothered me and I guess a few other people.
This morning I read Rochelle Riley’s piece in the Detroit
Free Press: WHERE WAS HIS APOLOGY TO MRS. EDWARDS?
We have not seen the last of these adulterers who play on
the national and international stage but I guess what pisses me off the most
about Edwards is when he said God is not through with me yet, he has plans for
me…as if God somehow is picking him for some special assignment because he is
such a good man?
I guess what really sticks in people’s craw is the fact that
he cheated on his “dying” wife and then with such a straight face he lied his
ass off to us and especially to his wife and children…what a wretch; I saw the
interview with him on TV and he is a great liar!
And during the trial, he makes his daughter attend with him
every day, hearing what a scoundrel her father was and how hurt her mother was
and what about his aged parents, having to hear day after day what an asshole
they raised…how could he put them through that?
Edwards said how much he loved his children and even his
out-of-wedlock daughter and seemed to have made peace with his God but as
Rochelle Riley points out, he never publicly apologized to his wife who not
only had to deal with her own imminent death but had to go to her grave knowing
what her husband did to her; the husband she supported and trusted through all
those years…I can only imagine how she felt in her last minutes.
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