tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post8896325071125026624..comments2024-01-16T03:42:46.705-05:00Comments on The Downward Spiral: John Edwards: A Peak Behind the Mask Of A Big Time PoliticianBill Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-37722844458019868112012-05-18T12:37:28.136-04:002012-05-18T12:37:28.136-04:00I read "The Dark Aide of Camelot" as wel...I read "The Dark Aide of Camelot" as well. It was pretty appalling and if it hadn't been a genuine reporter like Seymour Hersh who wrote it, I might have been willing to dismiss some of its wilder accounts. <br /><br />I think the explanation is just in the makeup of the people who rise to the highest levels of politics.Bill Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-42987399255755936742012-05-18T11:24:03.453-04:002012-05-18T11:24:03.453-04:00If you want narcissistic and stunningly reckless, ...If you want narcissistic and stunningly reckless, look to JFK. Even one as jaded as myself was really appalled at recently reading Seymour Hersh's "The Dark Side of Camelot." Actually, it sounds like that entire clan—even some of the women—were pathological, pyschosexual crazies.<br /><br />I see some parallels between JFK and Edwards, even though one grew up fabulously rich, and the other in poverty. They both had serious, chronic pain in their lives. JFK's was physical (for which he was constantly doped up), and Edwards' was emotional (losing his 16-year-old son suddenly in an auto accident, and having a wife with cancer). Add these things to gigantic egos, and I think it would make anyone nuts, with feelings of entitlement to do what they wanted.<br /><br />Not trying to excuse here, just looking for some glimpse of an explanation.Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09809202917469138601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-26508083409259575222012-05-16T08:49:49.897-04:002012-05-16T08:49:49.897-04:00I was just talking about this with my daughter yes...I was just talking about this with my daughter yesterday. I also was a big supporter of Edwards in the beginning, mostly because he is the only politician I ever heard even mention finding the CAUSE of cancer, not a "cure". I thought that meant he had integrity, because as I learned when my daughter had it, the cancer epidemic is a gigantic industry in this country, making huge amounts of money for doctors, clinics and pharmaceutical companies, none of whom could care less about the chemicals and pollution that saturate our environment.<br /><br />Then I saw that video of Edwards fawning over himself in the mirror. It bothered me but I thought, maybe it's more like a meaningless nervous tick, and he's mentally going over a speech he's about to give.<br /><br />That "crazy slut" comment reminded me of the video. He is exactly what you said, Bill, massively narcissistic. Any guy who can disparage a woman who he was once in love with, or pretended to be in love with, as nothing but a crazy slut has no capacity for love or empathy for anyone but himself. He was combing his hair just like Narcissus staring into the pool, adoring his own image.<br /><br />I am so angry that I actually gave him money - more than I had ever given any politician in my life even though I'm poorer than I've ever been - and then after he dropped out, to make me twice an idiot, I gave even more than that to Obama.<br /><br />Never again.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3QGailhttp://witsendnj.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-25519776395832645512012-05-16T08:47:53.252-04:002012-05-16T08:47:53.252-04:00I haven't paid any attention to Edwards. Just ...I haven't paid any attention to Edwards. Just the typical American fanaticism about sex. Cling to our Puritan roots, we do. I really don't care about the sex or the corruption. There's so much of both everywhere that I developed a "so what" attitude some time ago. <br /><br />My own sexual past isn't the cleanest and I long ago realized my own corruption level depends on the amount of money involved.eugene12https://www.blogger.com/profile/07842848199699893792noreply@blogger.com