John Edwards... the REST of the story

[SoCalDem]

49. People are complex creatures

He was just another cheating husband, who happened to be a good-looking/smooth-talker. We have ALL known these men.

If we work with them we can ignore their advances and feel sorry for their families.
If they run for office and are clever enough we never know about their secret lives.
If they are in our family/friend circle, we can try to "counsel" them and failing that, we can commiserate with their wives
If we are married to one, we can be the ever-suffering wife who looks the other way to maintain the family lifestyle, or we can divorce them and start over.

He was nothing special. He conned a lot of people, and even though he may have had a message that many liked, could we believe that he would be any truer to it or us, than he was in his private life (now morbidly public)

I so wish that people who "go public" would first take a skeleton-inventory , and perhaps spare us (and them) a lot of unnecessary drama