By way of reminder, here are some of the things I’ve written in the past about John Edwards:

• “…a hypocritical ambulance-chaser of the first order“
• I compared an ingratiating telephone fundraiser as a “honey-voiced southerner… who does her best to ingratiate herself with fellow good ol’ folks. (In other words, John Edwards, with fewer $400 haircuts.)
• a “charlatan” who “used his wife’s cancer as the backdrop for [his] first campaign video while [he was] booking ‘consulting time’ with another woman.

Edwards’ checkered history leads me to ask, as a reporter for Newsweek did today, why he is still raising — and spending — money on a presidential campaign. Last I checked, that race was held almost a year ago (and Edwards wasn’t in it). But somehow he has banked $3.7 million in donations and continues to spend it.

I have known many public servants in my life. The vast majority of them work long hours in enormously frustrating situations in service to ideals they hold close to their hearts, striving to make a better life for people. Every time you confront cynicism about politics and government, it’s not because of those people — it’s because of people like John Edwards, a self-aggrandizing phony who preys off people’s misery.

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