I Would Hate to be John Edwards
The sad thing about the ex-VP candidate is, that he is easiest to hate: look what he did. Wife dying of cancer, cheated on her with a "blonde bimbo," she with child, diverted (allegedly, don't want to get sued) funds to support same, lied to dying wife, kids 9what MUST they think, etc, etc, yadda, yadda.
Name, picture, TV coverage, on and on, tedium ad neuasium. God, what a mess. Everyone is focusing on what he must be like, why is this man SMILING for the TV cameras? The awfulness that is coming out in the trial, what next - sexual positions? In front of his kids? What effect does it have on his children?
All very sad, I'm sure. But: I wonder what he is thinking about himself? At night, alone, at 1 or 2 in the morning, when he stares at the ceiling, ruminating about all this, about Elizabeth, her dying moments, (I've been with a dying wife - right through to her last breath, and it's a picture in my head and heart I wish that wasn't there).
What do his kids ask him in the quiet moments?
I wonder if he destroys himself with regret?
Does it pray on him: going to prison, who takes care of my children? Elizabeth's and mine, the mistress' and mine? Do they stay together? Is that going to work? What a mess?
Or, I wonder if he racks himself over the prospect of prison? Or what happens to his kids when and if he goes to jail? A pretty boy like him doing hard time in jail is not going to come out looking the same,. I can see him as the jail-house lawyer doing briefs for Louie-the-Lip in for armed robbery or Hal the Skull Crusher doing time for murder - or else.
I hope to God he is not as shallow as the press makes him out, fluffing his hair.
G. Gordon Liddy told me he adapted quite well in Lewisburg (Dr. of Laws) and eventually put the warden in prison for a number of crimes, who knows, if Edwards winds up in jail, one never knows.
But, for now, the grueling scenario plays out on our TVs nd I wish it didn't, not for his sake, for his daughters - the poor kid must be at her wits end having to do at daily "perp walk."
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Name, picture, TV coverage, on and on, tedium ad neuasium. God, what a mess. Everyone is focusing on what he must be like, why is this man SMILING for the TV cameras? The awfulness that is coming out in the trial, what next - sexual positions? In front of his kids? What effect does it have on his children?
All very sad, I'm sure. But: I wonder what he is thinking about himself? At night, alone, at 1 or 2 in the morning, when he stares at the ceiling, ruminating about all this, about Elizabeth, her dying moments, (I've been with a dying wife - right through to her last breath, and it's a picture in my head and heart I wish that wasn't there).
What do his kids ask him in the quiet moments?
I wonder if he destroys himself with regret?
Does it pray on him: going to prison, who takes care of my children? Elizabeth's and mine, the mistress' and mine? Do they stay together? Is that going to work? What a mess?
Or, I wonder if he racks himself over the prospect of prison? Or what happens to his kids when and if he goes to jail? A pretty boy like him doing hard time in jail is not going to come out looking the same,. I can see him as the jail-house lawyer doing briefs for Louie-the-Lip in for armed robbery or Hal the Skull Crusher doing time for murder - or else.
I hope to God he is not as shallow as the press makes him out, fluffing his hair.
G. Gordon Liddy told me he adapted quite well in Lewisburg (Dr. of Laws) and eventually put the warden in prison for a number of crimes, who knows, if Edwards winds up in jail, one never knows.
But, for now, the grueling scenario plays out on our TVs nd I wish it didn't, not for his sake, for his daughters - the poor kid must be at her wits end having to do at daily "perp walk."
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