Obama Is a Snooze—John Edwards Is the Real Story

[Liberal_in_LA]

Obama Is a Snooze—John Edwards Is the Real Story
by Michael Wolff

Barack Obama is an uplifting but, so far, ultimately boring story.

The greatest political saga, the one that has it all, that gets to the real heart of American politics, is the John Edwards story.

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This isn’t just politics, it’s literature. It’s the great American novel, the kind that isn’t written anymore.

The untold story of American politics is laid out before us: tortured marriages. We’ve got the smart, grasping, political wife running her inch-deep husband’s political career, struck down by cancer. The husband is a liberal-populist candidate, far better looking than his wife, and not half as smart, seeking adoration on the campaign trail. Into this steps the other woman. Is she, as the wife compulsively and virulently portrays her, a craven climber, a groupie in politics, as she once was in the Manhattan demi monde? Or is she more the searcher, the vulnerable (or neurotic) heart, caught in the headlights? What’s more, having the politician’s child, she’s a mother—suddenly as morally entitled as the politician’s wife. And now there’s the aide with his own version. Andrew Young is the “special assistant,” the figure who exists in all high-flying campaigns, the go-anywhere, do-anything guy, who, in this instance, the candidate drags down a terrible rabbit hole, and who—this being the age of confessions and of media—emerges to tell his own tale.

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The John Edwards story, as it helplessly and haplessly unfolds and keeps unfolding, is a remarkable window, which we ought to look into with the greatest curiosity and awe. Edwards isn’t, I doubt, much of an aberration. He is the American politician. The only difference is that circumstances now find him beyond spin, truer, and more naked than perhaps any American politician has ever been.

We need this story. We need it to be told in all its fullness.

http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/291/obama-is-a-snooze-john-edwards-is-the-real-story.html#

[Blue_Tires]

1. i think 'tawdry' is the word they are looking for

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. No we do not "need" this story

Elizabeth and the kids have been through too much. We "need" to let it go.

[cali]

3. uh, she's helped keep it alive.

[Common Sense Party]

4. There's no sex in the Obama story.

We love our sex and scandal.

[Pharlo]

11. Oh, I'm sure there is sex in the Obama story.

It's just plain old boring :boring: sex with his spouse. No story there.

[undeterred]

5. It gets to the heart of nothing.

Its just a guy with a great wife and family who ruined it all with his loose dick.

[get the red out]

6. YES!

It's a very old story.

[Kalyke]

7. Too old.

This story is replayed too often.

I hope there's a special place in Hell for cheaters who ruin the lives of their spouse and kids.

[badgerpup]

8. John Edwards let a lot of people down.

I wondered why he dropped out so suddenly with that lame 'history' comment...as though history was a sentient being.
Now we know. I'm just glad I didn't donate anything to him.

And if he absolutely had to go off the reservation...geez, couldn't he at least have chosen somebody with a little class?

What is it about 'crazy' that draws men so? :wtf:

[undeterred]

12. She told him he was "hot"

and after that he couldn't control himself.

[SidneyCarton]

9. If by "we" you mean the confederation of whoremongers known as the American media...

Then you are correct. Otherwise this is just more tawdry crap worthy of the tabloids.

[TexasObserver]

10. But his daddy was a mill worker!!

If I could just take a fresh cow paddy and smash it in his face, I know I'd feel better about all this.