"He Sure Does Have a Pretty Mouth"

So, the inevitable happened and John Edwards imploded. I am not surprised. I never liked the guy. When he was first thinking of running for President in 2004 I noted that he had not been outside of the country. He was a guy with no gravitas. He had made his money as a trial lawyer handling "bad baby" cases. I was a trial lawyer back in the day so I know about "bad baby" cases, and more important, that they were often based upon bad science. The horrific outcome for the child and the parents was so catastrophic that the huge amounts of money changed hands. That background was no qualifier for national office but it ostensibly made him a champion for the little guy.

Time under the limelight did not, however, give Edwards a pleasing cast. In fact, he looked more self-absorbed than before. The YouTube clip said it all:



Some of you will remember the great James Dickey novel, Deliverance. The movie, released in 1972, starred Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight. Of Edwards, a nice Southern boy, they would have said,
"He sure does have a pretty mouth."