I am an adamant Barak Obama supporter; I worked for his campaign, talked him up to anyone who would listen to the point that I would downright offensive if you even uttered anything negative about MY president. I loved his wife and marveled at the beauty of his children. But my dirty little secret is that I didn’t support him first, my heart was with a well known trial attorney who had little chance of winning, John Edwards.
My first confession is that I am a lawyer as is Barak Obama, and so is John Edwards. The truth is though Barak Obama is no lawyer only a person with a law degree and there is a difference. John Edwards is a lawyer, a prominent trial attorney who did not get by on an Ivy League pedigree, but through hard work; taking the cases no one else would, the type of cases that we as young attorneys all dream about. So your daughter gets her intestines ripped out because a pool manufacturer wanted to save a few cents by not installing a safety product, call John. Hospital accidentally gives you AIDS, call John; doctor give you brain damage during routine surgery, yep call John. What if you go to every lawyer in the city and none will take your hopeless case as your spouse lay in bed dying because of a mistake made by some manufacturer or hospital. You have contacted your state senator and legislator and they turn you down, you would not have called Barak Obama, the man we now know as the black superman, you would call the John. Edward would not only take your case, he would be your David and fight until you won.
I heard John’s story sometime after he won the his seat as the Senator of North Carolina, unlike Obama through would be no coronation for his senate seat, Edwards would have to fight the republican establishment who held the seat for years. As you can imagine John was the underdog in that campaign; he fought against an incumbent and won by 4 percentage points in a race most experts thought he would lose.
John would go on to leave that seat to run for president he would lose, but not without a fight to the bitter end. John would then be John Kerry’s pick for the VP spot, he would lose; however, what few people know is that when the Ohio results came back skewed Edwards wanted to fight the results, Kerry chose not to fight and conceded. He would run again and for those who follow the news the rest is well we are still finding out.
There has been a lot of recent talk in the news about Eliot Spitzer’s return, for those that don’t know or can’t remember he was the former governor of New York who got caught in a prostitution scandal. Spitzer may be posturing for a run at public office again he is making the Sunday round tables, giving interviews about Wall Street corruption there are full spreads about him in the New York Times. All of these things got me thinking could Edwards make a return and what would it take. Most experts say no there could never be a return, but the experts have always been wrong about John.
Here is what I would tell John in preparation for his comeback. David the hero we all love, the man who battled and brought down a giant with a mere stone had quite the scandal of his own. Sending Uriah to die in battle because he coveted his wife, David’s son, Solomon, born of the wife of Uriah would be equally plagued by scandal surrounding women. George Washington had slaves, and was also known to be quit the ladies man. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklyn, FDR, JFK, Martin Luther King all had their issues with fidelity. They all became great and are remembered for contribution and not scandal.
So what will it take, sex therapy will not work, it will take a genuine sincere apology on every TV and radio station that will have you. You should be contrite but honest, you have let Elizabeth and other talking heads talk too long it is time you talk now and have the final say.
Next divorce your wife, the rumors are already about that it had been a troubled marriage to begin with, right now it seems as you were the evil husband that cheated on his unsuspecting wife with cancer. We all know this is not the truth; you married a woman who behind closed doors was disparaging and downright abusive. Tell the world that divorce is something that you should have considered a long time ago long before the scandal.
Do not marry Ms. Hunter! Take care of the child, but for god sakes John find a woman that would be a darling to the causes you love.
Do not talk about the sex tape; say you know nothing about it, and if it was filmed you are very sorry that a woman you trusted with do something so despicable.
Next align yourself with underdog issues find class action suits against bullies and others that take advantage of the poor, show up at small community meetings, let them use your resources and name to fight back against banks, polluters, and corrupt government, be there champion again.
Start practicing law and taking the cases that made you famous; it is imperative that you should be once again be seen as a fighter for the people that live in the lesser of the two Americas and in your case if there is no one to fight, go pick a fight. John, your story will be about redemption it will be about finding out that you are in fact vulnerable confessing that much and rebuilding an image that I believe rests at the core of your soul.
Then one day, maybe ten years from now, you should re-run for your senate seat in North Carolina and after that who knows…
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