whatever else it is, the Edwards trial is a damning indictment of how we fund campaigns [View all]

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I don't know if Edwards is guilty of breaking any laws. The laws around campaign finance were a tangle in 2008 and they're even more so now, but that someone could funnel hundreds of thousands to a candidate for whatever purpose is just shameful.

As for Edwards, one of the neglected themes of all of this shit, is that he took shameless advantage of a very old person. Yes, she's a very rich old person but what a pig to lie to an old lady to get hundreds of thousands out of her for any reason, let alone to for setting up his pregnant mistress.