John Edwards, Modern Icarus

A Modern Icarus Burning and Crashing
Icarus: Mythical Greek who disregarded common sense, flew too far and too high, melted his waxen wings in the heat of the sun, lost altitude rapidly, and plunged into the Icarian Sea.

Icarus, despite his great promise and future, was a dumbass or, as Obama might call him, a jackass. Those terms fit the former Democratic Senator John Edwards as well, maybe moreso. Narcissus might be another apt comparison.

The latest news on one of the country’s foremost fungi, reveals that he is not only a committed liar but an egomaniacal cad as well.

You may remember Johnny, the erstwhile politician, the po’ boy from North Carolina who rose to fame and riches thanks to his rhetorical skills in beating on various corporations on behalf of his law clients, from whom he milked a third of their legal settlements.

Johnny went on to use his wealth to buy a U.S. senate seat in 2000 then, seeing all that negative Edwards graffiti on N.C. walls, sucked up to John Kerry in 2004 and became the beauty element of the Kerry-Edwards beauty and the beast ticket.

They lost, thanks in small part to Johnny being caught so narcissistically infatuated with his coiffure that he made a future Republican VP candidate’s infatuation with shooting wolves from helicopters seem macho in comparison.

So, Johnny withdrew, not into obscurity but into his Two Americas which he hoped would serve as a springboard into the presidency in 2008.

Talk about presumption! That bid was almost as presumptive as some guy thinking he was qualified and should be president after all of 4 years as a senator!

Well, Johnny avoided any barber travesties during that failed campaign. He may not have withdrawn into obscurity but may wish he had withdrawn in other ways.

However, he was caught almost literally with his pants down in the Beverly Hilton in August, 2008 by the Enquirer.

Even hiding in a basement men’s room was of no avail and he eventually fessed up then compounded the mess he was in with yet another lie: He admitted to having an affair with a campaign aide but denied he had fathered her baby, thereby rendering his mistress not just an adulteress but a slut.

For more detail on Johnny’s Great Adventures, see http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=336 and http://bit.ly/CPvpQ.

His dalliance with Rielle Hunter resulted in a failed effort for the presidency, as if he ever had a chance aside from his ego-promptings, but it did produce a love child.

Now it’s been revealed, if we can believe the printed words of a close aide who says he was importuned by Edwards to take responsibility and admit paternity, that it was all a carefully-plotted charade by the Carolina wonder boy to save his sorry arse.

It wouldn’t go over well for the political career of a good Carolina Christian to fess up that he had dallied in Rielle’s valley, a campaign staff videographer, as his wife lay dying back home, so close aide Andrew Young agreed to take the paternity bullet.

Young’s charges for said fib has now come due in the form of his yet to be released, untitled book.

Ms. Hunter is not yet on record identifying the true daddy. . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)