John Edwards: Sigh! How could so many of us been so wrong. [View all]

[Cleita]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-edwards-trial-as-a-lawyer-john-edwards-had-faith-in-jurors-20120412,0,4166719.story?track=rss

John Edwards trial: As trial lawyer, Edwards had 'faith' in jurors

By David Zucchino
April 12, 2012, 8:34 a.m.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Jury selection begins Thursday in the federal election corruption trial of former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, who is accused of conspiring to violate campaign laws, accepting illegal contributions and making false statements.

Edwards, 58, a 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate, made millions in courtrooms as a personal injury lawyer in North Carolina. Now he faces a 30-year prison sentence and up to $1.5 million in fines if convicted on all six federal counts against him.

The government has accused Edwards of using nearly $1 million in donations from two wealthy benefactors to hide an extramarital affair during his unsuccessful 2008 campaign for president. Prosecutors say Edwards solicited the money to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, a campaign videographer who was pregnant with Edwards’ child.

Edwards’ wife, Elizabeth Edwards, who died in December 2010, was fighting breast cancer at the time. She had served as her husband’s chief policy advisor. The couple separated in 2010 after Edwards admitted the affair and said he was the father of Hunter’s daughter, Frances Quinn, born in February 2008. More at link.

I was always a Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich supporter, but when they fell by the wayside, my support went to John Edwards. I remember the days when Elizabeth Edwards posted at DU. She had DU a moniker but in the heat of the campaign, Elizabeth continued to post but under her real name until the scandal happened. Although she posted once or twice after that, her cancer and the humiliation of it made her stop, I believe.

But John, John, I really believed in you and it turns out that the real you has nothing to do with the public you that is as phony as your hair. And now on top of being a tomcat you are also alleged to be a thief. It seems it was Elizabeth we should have been supporting, not you. It's too bad the universe took her back into its bosom because she would have been one helluva first woman President. If cancer had not claimed, her I would have looked for her to move forward after the divorce and throw her hat in the ring. Such a sad ending all around to this situation that once had given us all hope for a real liberal in the White House.