I always liked John as a Senator in North Carolina. He stood up for the average person and sought to protect children in his capacity in the Senate.
Infidelity is unbecoming, but, it isn't criminal.
I am leaving North Carolina after living there for 16 years. I don't believe it is safe under the direction of the current legislature. They are dismantling all the venues of safety for citizens including seeking justice through civil courts when a person is wrongfully effected by circumstances beyond their control and imposed by others.
In Emergency Rooms now physicians have no liability. Yet, we know there are sincere problems that do happen with ERs sometimes. The Republican presence in the state has become overwhelming to decent people and they are offensive in their assault against the moral content of the communities.
That is something the Republicans of North Carolina don't seem to understand. They don't understand that laws can be offensive to a person's conscience. They don't care, they believe a democracy can be used to be oppressive if good people simply because power is out of their reach. So, there are many kinds of moralities and immoralities. The immorality viciously attacking a former Senator is the most egregious of them.
I wish the former North Carolina Senator the best and his family including his youngest daughter and her mother. I wish them peace. I sincerely believe the persecution of John Edwards speaks more to the oppressive nature of the current political tone of the Republicans than is says about the capacity a democracy should have in vengeance of personal choices.
Cate Edwards, (click title to entry - thank you) the oldest daughter of John Edwards and his late wife, Elizabeth, is among the witnesses who may be called to testify in the criminal trial that could send her father to prison for up to 30 years. Her name appeared among a list of dozens of potential witnesses who could be called by the defense team.
A newly married graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, Cate Edwards recently put her own fledgling legal career on hold to launch an educational foundation in her mother’s name....
