Ari's Planet

So John Edwards had an affair. And lied about it. And kept on saying stupider and stupider things. How's that news? I was in grad school in NC back when Edwards announced his candidacy. Oh, such words! What spirit! What a darling picture of a little boy waving the American flag! Heck, I might volunteer for his campaign. I did. Even got a bumper sticker. The first, and only, bumper sticker to grace my car. That lasted 2 days, when that stupid bumper sticker came off. Edwards was on the Senate Intelligence Committee in the run up to the Iraq war. These are the folks who got to see classified intelligence data about Iraq. The intelligence data that Dick Durbin was saying was rather inconclusive about WMDs. Let it not be said of Edwards that he let intelligence get in the way of a good speech. Edwards was quite the rah-rah man in the senate, extolling the virtues of a war with Iraq to stop that Hussein guy from unleashing his certain WMDs. Later, Edwards lied about knowing that there weren't WMDs. Durbin managed to abstain from voting for the war, but Edwards certainly shirked his duty to the US. He even advocated a preemptive attack without UN sanction--given that the US was not being attacked, this would be an illegal attack. So, McCain also had an affair, and married a second woman while married to his first (at least if those random headlines are truthful). Well, you'd think that Edwards helping to fuck up the world would be a bigger story than what women some ex-candidate fucked. Let's see, cost to me of Edwards fucking some woman? Zero dollars. Cost to me of Iraq war? I have no idea, but if it costs us 2 trillion (yikes!) dollars and there's only 300 million of us stupid Americans, and if the rich dudes hide their money offshore, then I figure it has gotta cost me a fair penny or two. Not to mention all the poor bastards who are too dead to worry about how much any wars have cost them. Such is the pathetic crap we live with.