Sunday, May 3, 2009

Feds are looking at Edwards' campaign

Although we have not heard much from John Edwards lately, I remember the day the news of his affair breaking like it was yesterday. I was pretty shocked by what happened to him considering the state of his family at the time of its occurrence and it made me look at him from a totally different perspective. He had it all going for him and could have potentially had the job Eric Holder has now had he just stayed the course and held his cool during his wife's battle with her illness. Even though I think it was totally inappropriate for Edwards to have engaged himself with Rielle Hunter, at this point his political career is over with at least for the near future and it would surprise me very much if anything actually comes from the federal investigators' report on his use of campaign funding. Hunter got a lot of money for the work that she did for him, but he probably would have paid someone else a fee somewhat close to what she initially received for her work due to the desire to get technologically savvy with the campaign. I am a bit surprised that more has not come out Hunter in terms of the relationship, but it appears she really does care about him and that his friends have done a nice job of providing her with the house and privacy needed for Edwards at this time. Once this investigation is over with it will be interesting to see which way Edwards decides to move in because he will either be vindicated to a certain degree or made out to be more of a fool than we originally thought.

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