John Edwards... the REST of the story

[frazzled]

16. Just like Lt. Hiroo Onada, who continued to fight World War II for 29 years after it ended

The war is over ... please come out.

John Edwards was never for anyone but himself. See all the recent articles about Bo Xilai, the Chongqinq official who was famous for preaching about the gap between the grotesquely rich and abjectly poor while accumulating untold millions for his family, sending his son off to Harrow, Oxford, and Harvard to party and drive sports cars, and whose wife had a British business consultant murdered. Here, in case you haven't been following (it's the biggest story in the world right now, but I'm hard pressed to find threads about it here). Happens all the time:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/world/asia/bo-xilai-said-to-have-spied-on-top-china-officials.html?ref=world

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/world/asia/bo-guagua-tries-to-defuse-sports-car-scandal.html?ref=world

and for a good recap, here:

The gap between rich and poor has become so inflammatory and unsustainable that the Chinese government has simply stopped releasing an official measure of the distribution of wealth. (Unofficial studies now put China’s inequality beyond the point that a former Prime Minister once estimated would trigger social unrest.) Bo Xilai made his name channelling Mao’s call for social equity, but Bloomberg has discovered that Gu Kailai’s siblings control businesses worth at least a hundred and twenty-six million dollars. The Chinese journalist Jiang Weiping, who spent five years in prison for reporting on Bo family corruption, told NPR last week, “I think it’s an extremely conservative guess to say he had one hundred mistresses.”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/04/30/120430taco_talk_osnos#ixzz1tBbnCqeT